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Amusements

  • Funtasticks Family Fun Park
    221 East Wetmore Road • Tucson, AZ 85705
    520-888-4653
    Funtasticks offers mini-golf, go-karts, batting cages, bumper boats, a seven-ride Kiddie Land, and a state-of-the-art video arcade. Atlantis Laser Odyssey is also available. This 5,200 square foot, three-level arena is filled with fog and black lights, twisting hallways, suspended cage ramps and lots of hiding places.  more...  map

  • Old Tucson Studios
    201 South Kinney Road • Tucson, AZ 85735
    520-883-0100
    Voted Best Western Movie Set in 2005 by both Editors and Readers of True West magazine, and recently listed among five one-of-a-kind Tucson sites by USA Today, Old Tucson Studios features film and TV shoots throughout the year and daily Wild West entertainment for the whole family.  more...  map

  • Tucson Greyhound Park
    2601 South Third Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85713
    520-884-7576
    Tucson Greyhound Park has been providing entertainment to Southern Arizona for over six decades. more...  map

Casinos

  • Casino of the Sun
    7406 South Camino de Oeste • Tucson, AZ 85746
    520-883-1700
    Casino of the Sun offers endless gaming action. more...  map

Historic Homes & Buildings

  • Historic Stone Avenue Temple (circa 1910)
    564 South Stone Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85701
    520-670-9073
    The first synagogue in the Arizona territory that is now a center for regional Jewish history and community events.  map

  • San Xavier del Bac Mission (circa 1797)
    1950 West San Xavier Road • Tucson, AZ 85746
    Located on the Tohono O'odham Reservation
    520-294-2624
    Acclaimed as one of the finest examples of mission architecture in U.S., the San Xavier del Bac Mission is located in Southwest Tucson.  map

  • St. Augustine Cathedral
    192 South Stone Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85701
    520-623-6351
    In the mid 1800s, St. Augustine was built. A historical marker in a small park at Church and Broadway downtown marks the location of that adobe and stone structure, whose arched portal now decorates the entrance to the Arizona Historical Society Museum at 949 East 2nd Street in Tucson.  more...  map

  • Tombstone Epitaph (circa 1880's)
    9 South Fifth Street • Tucson, AZ 85638
    520-457-2211, 800-518-1566
    Visit the newspaper museum displaying vintage newspapers and printing equipment. Read the original 1881 reports of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. See how newspapers were printed in the 1880's. more...  map

Museums & Galleries

  • Arizona Historical Society Museum Downtown
    140 North Stone Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85701
    Wells Fargo Building
    520-770-1473
    The Arizona Historical Society has the world's largest collection of Arizona history artifacts, documents, and photographs. more...  map

  • Arts Partnership Gallery
    125 South Arizona Avenue • Tucson, AZ520-624-9977
    Located in downtown arts district featuring juried emerging artists.  map

  • DeGrazia Gallery
    6300 North Swan Road • Tucson, AZ 85718
    520-299-9191, 800-545-2185
    The adobe gallery was designed and built by artist Ted DeGrazia, who achieved worldwide acclaim for his colorful paintings of people and places of the Southwest. Opened in the early 1960's, the gallery was designed to exhibit and preserve his oils, watercolors, bronzes, enamels, ceramics, stone lithographs, serigraphs and jewelry.  more...  map

  • Fort Lowell Museum
    2900 North Craycroft Road • Tucson, AZ 85712
    520-885-3832
    The museum depicts life at Fort Lowell as a frontier Arizona army post. Long-term and changing exhibits.  more...  map

  • Gallery at 6th & 6th
    439 North Sixth Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85705
    520-903-0650
    The Gallery at 6th & 6th specializes in American Modernism from the 1940s forward, as well as contemporary art continuing that tradition. more...  map

  • International Wildlife Museum
    4800 West Gates Pass Road • Tucson, AZ 85745
    520-629-0100
    This museum highlights over 400 species of insects, mammals and birds from around the globe. Some of the collections are more than 100 years old and all the animals found at the museum were donated by various government agencies, wildlife rehabilitation centers, captive breeding programs, zoos and individuals.  more...  map

  • La Pilita Museum Gallery
    420 South Main Avenue in Barrio Viejo • Tucson, AZ 85701
    520-882-7454
    The museum is a living repository of photos and oral histories of Barrio Viejo and El Hoyo.  more...  map

  • Mountain Shadow Gallery
    3001 East Skyline Drive, Suite 109 • Tucson, AZ 85718
    520-577-6301
    Featuring contemporary, original art of local and national artists; displaying oil, watercolor, acrylic paintings, bronze & steel sculptures, furniture, & ceramics. Open seven days a week from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. more...  map

  • Philabaum Glass Studio & Gallery
    711 South Sixth Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85701
    520-884-7404
    Philabaum Glass Studio & Gallery is a contemporary glass art and glassblowing studio. more...  map

  • Pima Air & Space Museum
    6000 East Valencia Road • Tucson, AZ 85706
    520-574-0462
    The Pima Air & Space Museum is the largest Air & Space Museum in the Western United States.  more...  map

  • Pima County Sports Hall of Fame
    110 South Church Avenue, La Placita Village • Tucson, AZ 85701
    520-296-3788
    A museum for sports fans, covering 90 years of Arizona sports history, honoring world champions, local legends, 40 sports, and 220 superstars.   map

  • Postal History Foundation
    920 North First Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85719
    520-623-6652
    While it maintains the largest and one of the finest facilities dedicated to postal history in the western United States, the Foundation is also the only museum that operates an extensive youth education program.  more...  map

  • Southern Arizona Transportation Museum
    414 North Toole Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85701
    520-623-2223
    This museum features a steam locomotive and outdoor/indoor exhibits exploring the impact of the railroad on Tucson.  more...  map

  • T-Rex Museum
    3835 North Oracle Road • Tucson, AZ 85705
    520-792-2884
    The T-Rex Museum has fossils, replicas, science, art, fast facts and hands on exhibits that take you through 570 Million years of prehistory. Every child through the door has the chance to dig up real fossils, and keep what they find. The T-Rex Museum also boasts a movie theater, toddler room, art corner and a gift store. more...  map

  • Toy Train Operating Museum
    3975 North Miller Avenue, P.O. Box 85425 • Tucson, AZ 85705
    520-888-2222
    A charitable, non-profit organization dedicated to the hobby of model railroading by providing the public with an interactive museum of operating toy train layouts and displays.  more...  map

  • Tucson Children's Museum
    200 South Sixth Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85702
    520-792-9985
    Come to the museum and experience a fun way of learning. All the exhibits are hands-on, encouraging interaction and triggering each child's intellect.  more...  map

  • Tucson Museum of Art & Historic Block
    140 North Main Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85701
    520-624-2333
    Tucson's premiere visual arts destination. The Tucson Museum of Art has been a collecting museum for more than twenty-five years with more than 7,000 pieces. more...  map

  • Tucson Rodeo Parade & Parade Museum
    6th Avenue & Irvington Road • Tucson, AZ 85702
    520-294-1280
    There are now over one hundred fifty buggys and wagons on display and additional artifacts of the old west are being collected continually. There is a typical western street with various shops that an old western town might have and historical memorabilia of Tucson.  more...  map

National Parks & Natural Wonders

  • Saguaro National Park
    3693 South Old Spanish Trail • Tucson, AZ 85730
    520-733-5153, Rincon Mountain District Visitor Center
    Located on two sides of Tucson, the Tucson Mountain District or Saguaro West and the Rincon Mountain District or Saguaro East, the Sonoran Desert is home to the most recognizable cactus in the world, the majestic saguaro. Visitors of all ages are fascinated by these desert giants, especially their many interesting and complex interrelationships with other desert life. more...  map

Parks, Gardens & Zoos

  • Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
    2021 North Kinney Road • Tucson, AZ 85743
    520-883-2702
    Since 1952, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, a world-renowned zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden, has enchanted millions of visitors with its exhibits of live animals and fascinating educational programs. The Museum is well-known in the scientific community as an institution committed to researching and protecting the land, plants, and the animals of the Sonoran Desert region. more...  map

  • Reid Park Zoo
    1100 South Randolph Way • Tucson, AZ 85716
    520-791-3204
    Meet the more than 400 animals - rhinos, elephants, anteaters, polar bears, lions, and many more. Adventure in the African, Asian, and South American regions.  more...  map

  • Tohono Chul Park
    7366 North Paseo del Norte • Tucson, AZ 85704
    520-742-6455
    Tohono Chul Park is the Southwest center where nature, art, and culture connect. Ramble through winding nature trails and gardens. Tour exhibits in a renovated historic home. Enjoy breakfast, lunch, or afternoon tea in their famous Tea Room. Shop in the greenhouse and museum shops.  more...  map

  • Tucson Botanical Gardens
    2150 North Alvernon Way • Tucson, AZ 85712
    520-326-9686
    Tucson Botanical Gardens is a place of beauty, inspiration and education about the natural world. There are 16 different gardens within the grounds representing a variety of gardening traditions and botanical themes.  more...  map

Tours & Cruises

  • Balloon America
    P.O. Box 31255 • Tucson, AZ 85751
    520-299-7744
    One of their balloons lifts off next to a desert oasis at the private La Mariposa Resort. Their FAA Certified Commercial Pilots are hand picked from among the most experienced in the world. Since 1982, they have flown over 120,000 passengers in complete comfort and safety. more...  map

  • Black Diamond Hummer Tours
    P.O. Box 36494 • Tucson, AZ 85740
    520-907-1061
    Enjoy the beauty of the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona in enclosed, air conditioned comfort of a Hummer H2. Adventures include bottled water, soft drinks and snacks and lots of fun. Enjoy scenic tours on easy dirt roads through unique Saguaro cactus or the excitement of being in a HUMMER H2 up on three wheels crawling over rocks, Black Diamond HUMMER Tours has your adventure.  more...  map

  • Fleur de Tucson Balloon Tours
    4635 North Caida Place • Tucson, AZ 85718
    520-529-1025
    Each journey is unique, combining low level views of the beautiful desert landscape, javelina, deer, bobcat, rabbits and red-tailed hawks, and spectacular panoramas from higher elevations. They generally fly as low as treetop and as high as 2,500 feet above ground, so you can get the very most out of your ballooning experience.  more...  map

  • Gray Line Tours Tucson
    3594 East Lincoln Street • Tucson, AZ 85714
    520-622-8811
    Sightseeing tours of Phoenix, Tucson and the Grand Canyon. more...  map

  • Great Western Tours
    3900 West Flying Diamond • Tucson, AZ 85742
    520-572-1660
    They conduct tours on a daily basis in Tucson and Southern Arizona. Most are half-day tours and they pick up at all Tucson hotels and resorts, however reservations are required. Tours are conducted by the most experienced driver/guides in the business. They use vans for smaller groups, motor-coaches for larger groups, and can provide step-on guides for groups with their own transportation.  more...  map

  • Hummer Tours of Tucson
    12200 East Tanque Verde Road • Tucson, AZ 85749
    520-977-6615
    Hummer Tours of Tucson is here to provide you with a fun and unique way to see and explore beautiful Southern Arizona. Whether you are visiting the area, or you call the Sonoran Desert your home, Hummer Tours of Tucson can find an adventure perfect for you. They offer many different trails to choose from ranging from easy trails to take in the scenery or some of the most rugged terrain that will put your Hummer and it’s off road capabilities to the test.  more...  map

  • KruseArizona Tours
    4517 East Patricia Street • Tucson, AZ 85712
    520-881-1638
    Offers historic walking tours, van tours and coach tours. more...  map

  • Reisen Arizona
    4142 East Kings Road • Tucson, AZ 85711
    520-319-8130
    Smaller Southern Dayton tours, with lunch included.  map

  • Sabino Canyon Tours
    5900 North Sabino Canyon Road • Tucson, AZ 85750
    520-749-2327
    Experience the beauty of one of the most unique Southwestern desert canyons on a Sabino Canyon tram ride. Sabino Canyon is a natural desert oasis located in Tucson’s Coronado National Forest and is home to spectacular desert landscapes and abundant wildlife.  more...  map

  • Sierra Madre Express
    P.O. Box 26381 • Tucson, AZ 85726
    520-747-0346
    When you visit Mexico's fabled Copper Canyon, traveling there on the Sierra Madre Express will assure the perfect vacation experience. Learn about Mexico as few others do while experiencing the romance and nostalgia often associated with rail travel of years past.  more...  map

  • Trail Dust Adventures Jeep Tours
    1665 South Craycroft Road • Tucson, AZ 85711
    520-747-0323
    Pull on your favorite jeans and experience the real Sonoran Desert with this four-wheel drive adventure company.  more...  map

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