Travel Notes: North America: Arizona Travel Notes

Also known as The Grand Canyon State, Arizona offers glorious vistas of the Grand Canyon and silent splendors of the desert.

The state capital of Arizona is Phoenix.

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Arizona Information, Arizona Municipalities, Arizona Museums, Arizona Tourism, Arizona Travel Guides, Map of Arizona, Northern Arizona, Sedona, Southern Arizona, Tucson.

Phoenix Weather - Arizona Weather.

Map of Arizona - with TravelNotes Hotel Guide

Zoom in on the map to travel around the state and find where to stay.

About Arizona:
Find out more about Arizona before you travel there. Order tourist brochures and look at where you'd like to stay.

Arizona Information

Arizona gets its name from the Native American word arizonac, believed to mean place of the small spring.

States neighbouring Arizona are: California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. Arizona also borders with Mexico.

Arizona's famous son is Geronimo (1829-1909), the Chiricahua Apache chief who resisted the idea of life on a reservation in New Mexico, Florida, or Alabama.

For ten years he would terrorise the white settlers with his intermittent raids.

Ironically, the early colonists pushed the Native Americans westwards, and now they were being forced east again.

Geronimo eventually gave up the ten-year struggle in 1886, and was settled in Oklahoma.

He took part in the inaugural procession of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, and had his life story published the following year.

Arizona Tourism

Ancient Pathways:
For students who are tired of being in the classroom, a semester living in the wilderness of northern Arizona with Ancient Pathways may be just the answer.

Arizona Guide:
Explore the Grand Canyon State from the official site of the Arizona Office of Tourism.

Arizona Hiking Trails:
Arizona is the perfect place to get outside and experience nature and a wide variety of wildlife. Hiking trails abound in state and range from the glory of the Grand Canyon to the beauty of the desert.

Arizona Leisure:
Arizona Leisure Travel Guide showcases Arizona Vacation choices including golf courses, hotels, resorts and travel vacations to scenic Arizona destinations.

Arizona Scenic Drives:
A collection of articles about scenic drives in Arizona gives you an idea of what's in store while travelling the Grand Canyon State by car.

Arizona State:
The state of Arizona's official office.

Arizona State Parks:
Arizona offers almost thirty natural, cultural and recreational parks for public use.

Arizona Tourist News:
The online version of a 36 page monthly tabloid covering attractions and events throughout Arizona.

Arizona Museums

The main centres of culture in Arizona are Tucson and Phoenix.

Two other museums of historical interest are the Navajo Tribal Museum, in Window Rock, and the Colorado River Indian Tribes Museum, in Parker.

Arizona is extremely hot in the summer, but it's a dry heat. Seriously, if you keep out of the sun you will hardly sweat.

Northern Arizona

Canyon Country

Northern Arizona is marked with vast canyon lands (including the biggest of them all: Grand Canyon National Park), ancient Indian ruins and thousands of acres of ponderosa pine strands.

Grand Canyon:
All the information you'll ever need. Now get a good pair of hiking boots.

Southern Arizona

Old West Territory

There's a bit of everything in southern Arizona: Incredible rock formations, mountain peaks called 'sky islands', wide valleys, sand dunes and, of course, the classic western deserts.

Tucson

Tucson lies in the borderland, a region that blends the cultures of the United States and Mexico, and has a long history of settlement by ancient Native American peoples, Spanish explorers, and Anglo frontiersmen.

Visit Tucson:
Plan your visit to Tucson, Arizona, with the help of the Tucson Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Accommodation in Tuscon

Elysian Grove Market:
An historic Tucson Barrio Bed and Breakfast Inn. If you are tired of hotels, you'll love this Bed & Breakfast Inn, furnished with folk art and antiques from Mexico and the Southwest. The garden is filled with cactus, mesquites, flowers, humming birds and fountains. There are sitting areas throughout the garden, perfect for drinking coffee, reading and bird watching.

Hotels in Tucson, Arizona:
Find hotels in Tucson, Arizona with special online rates.

Sedona

If you're looking to reconnect with your soul and spirit, Sedona is one of those places that will touch you and awaken your heart.

Arizona Healing Tours:
Shamanic soul dreamer, Clay Miller, offers tours to sacred places in the area, while helping people return to what is meaningful in life.

A Woman's Way:
Women's retreats designed to incorporate times for quiet reflection, journaling, personal growth, laughter, and the camaraderie of other extraordinary women; a place where women can find balance and discover that they already are the women they aspire to become in the beautiful location of Sedona, Arizona.

Sedona Arts Center:
In 1958 Egyptian-born sculptor, Nassan Gobran and a group of visionaries, inspired by the natural beauty of Sedona, Arizona saw the need for a place where artists could work and teach together - an arts center; providing diverse art experiences for individuals and the community through classes, exhibitions, special events and community outreach programs.