Highlights

Tantalize your taste buds and tickle your funny bones with a knee-slapping, good time at the ‘Blazin’ M Ranch Chuckwagon Dinner Show.  Amble through an Old West courtyard and feast on an all-you-can-eat BBQ supper using tin plates and cups. (Beware of flying biscuits!) Afterward, sit back, relax and enjoy the harmony of the Blazin’ M Cowboys with their authentic cowboy music, tall-tales, tomfoolery and other surprises! Read more »

Take a Grand Canyon tour that showcases the stunning views from the East & South Rims of the park. Along the way to the Grand Canyon you will have amazing views of the San Francisco Volcanic Field, the Painted Desert, the Little Colorado River Gorge and the Historic Cameron trading post on the Navajo Reservation. Explore an archaeological site and learn about the ancient desert dwellers that once lived at Canyon, and then vanished mysteriously.

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Get star struck when you visit Lowell Observatory! You'll explore interactive exhibits and experience a 3D digital space theatre and learn about more than a century of history on Mars Hill.  On clear nights, you'll get to look through the historic Alvan Clark refractor -- the telescope Percival Lowell used to observe Mars, and the instrument that gathered the first evidence of the expansion of the Universe. Read more »

Take a guided tour around the crater that is over 4,000 feet across and 550 feet deep! There are observation areas that actually allow you to view the crater from inside the rim! Learn about how the meteor formed and crashed in Earth.

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Gaze through the windows of the past into one of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in North America. This 20 room high-rise apartment, nestled into a towering limestone cliff, tells a 1,000 year-old story of ingenuity and survival in an unforgiving desert landscape. Read more »

With one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, and fossil displays, this is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science. Walk the Giant Logs Trail where you will learn about petrified wood, Triassic Period and erosion. Take a hike on the Blue Mesa Trail and get up close and personal with the badlands landscape.

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The park is named after the famous Slide Rock, a stretch of slippery creek bottom adjacent to the original 43-acre homestead. Student visitors will see the dramatic geologic features as they slide down a slick natural water chute or wade and sun along the creek. The swim area is located on National Forest land which is jointly managed by Arizona State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service. Together these areas have seen the making of many Hollywood movies such as "Broken Arrow" (1950), "Drum Beat" (1954), and  "Gun Fury" (1953). Read more »

The Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument is located in the northern central part of Arizona, less than 15 miles north of Flagstaff, protecting over 3,000 acres of lava fields, cinder deposits and archaeological ruins. As the youngest of the Colorado Plateau volcanoes, Sunset Crater gives everyone from geologists to amateur sleuths insight into what the earth was like in the last millennium.
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At the science center you will be able to learn about a variety of different aspects of science ranging from geology, biology and water. The main focus is to learn about the interactions among humans, animals, plants, air, soil and rock on the Earth's surface. Read more »

Wupatki National Monument is one of several sites preserving pueblos (houses) of ancient peoples. Unlike the other sites here there are many ruins scattered over a large area of desert. The pueblos all have a distinctive red color and were made from the local Moenkopi sandstone. In total there are more than 800 identified ruins spread around many miles of desert within Wupatki National Monument, but five of the largest are close to the main road.
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