Places To Visit When You Are In Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a small city located in southern Arizona about 100 miles south of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the Mexican border. Tucson is also pronounced as Too-sawn. It is located on a flat desert valley completely surrounded by rocky and unfertile mountains.
Like Phoenix, Tucson also a favorite place for retired persons to spend their life peacefully. Comparing to Phoenix, Tucson is less crowded, and attracts more tourists with its mind-blowing attraction in and around Tucson. The climate in Tucson is usually dry, the temperature ranges from warm to very hot. Tucson receives minimum level of rainfalls such as 25cm pr year.
In summer the temperatures can go beyond 45 deg Celsius, and in winter it is really an enjoyable climate with the temperatures of 20-25 deg Celsius in the daytime. From November to March is the perfect season to visit Tucson. It is better to visit Tucson in Fall and Spring, because these are the seasons Tucson received less tourists.
Attractions in Tucson
Prima Air Museum is the best place to visit to get a special experience. Apart from the amazing collection of civilian and military aircraft, you can have a chance to go for a tour to “Boneyards” at nearby David Monthan Air Force Base. You can see more than 5000 military aircraft as well as many B-52 bombers in Aerospace Maintenance and Reconstruction Center called as AMARC. It is really an amazing scene, that viewing lots of aircrafts parked in one area.
There are large open trench copper mines in Sahuarita, located south of Tucson and Bisbee located south of Tombstone. Both the mines are open to public as a tourist attraction. If you are ready to have 29 mile ride to Cataline Mountains, you can see the mount Lemmon, 3000 feet high peak. The temperature over there is 10 deg Calices average.
There are many important and interesting activities in Tucson. In February you can see the La Fiesta de los Vaqueros Rodeo. Easter week is the time to celebrate the Yaqui Easter Ceremony particularly with Christian attitude with Native American ethnicity. Late February is the time to celebrate the Tucson International Gem and Mineral show. It is the largest show in its kind, so it is difficult to get an accommodation in Tucson hotels in those two weeks.
Tombstone is an authentic old-west town
It is just half an hour ride from Tucson to reach the town Tombstone, Arizona. It is a town with tiny population, which still encourages many cattle ranches. It is also a genuine, old-west, gold-mining town popularly known as the area of the “Gunfight at the OK Corral”. Most of the old buildings consists many restaurants, gift shops and tourist attractions at present.
The OK Corral has been renewed as a museum. It is possible to see the gunfight shoes performed by actors in western costumes, stagecoach tours, saloons and old west museums down the street. You can visit “Boot Hill”, the cemetery, where the bodies of the Tombstone residents buried, most of them murdered, killed by Apache Indians, assassinated or lawfully hanged or shot in gunfights. McLaury brothers and Billy Clanton are buried here. Tombstone is a worth seeing tourist attrition. There is no admission fee to visit Boot Hill.
