Best Excursions from Tucson
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Best Time Spent Underground: Enter the otherworldly caves at Kartchner Caverns State Park, which are still being formed by slowly dripping water and are home to bats and hanging multicolored formations.
Best Sweeping View of the Borderlands: Along the U.S.-Mexico border at Coronado National Memorial you can stand on a scenic overlook with expansive, windswept views of the San Pedro and San Rafael Valleys, all the way to Mexico.
Best Day Trip Turned Overnighter: Explore Bisbee, a quaint old mining boomtown that’s now an enclave for artists, antiques shops, and several boutique hotels.
Best Native American Museum: Discover Native American cultures from prehistory all the way to the Chiricahua Apache and beyond at the Amerind Foundation Museum, one of the finest private ethnological collections in the nation.
Best Photo Opportunity in Southern Arizona: Make sure to get a photo of the magnificent forest of hoodoos and twisted rock high in the evergreen mountains at Chiricahua National Monument.
© Tim Hull from Moon Tucson, 1st Edition
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