Arizona

Pros: Fantastic acoustics!
Cons: Inadequate restroom facilities.

Green Acres is the place to be Farm living is the life for me Land spreading out, So far and wide Keep Manhattan, Just give me that countryside. Thus went Eddie Albert’s rallying cry for a simpler, purer “country” way of ...

Pros: The feel of a real Western town....circa 1880
Cons: A ton of tourists will be walking the streets with you

There are many famous mining towns in America - Cripple Creek, Silverton, and Leadville, Colorado all come to mind. Each was a boom town that for a brief moment was heralded as "the most prosperous city in the West". But because of the magic...

Pros: the London Bridge; friendly people
Cons: hot, hot, hot

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Writing our review of the Motel 6 in Lake Havasu City has inspired within us a burning desire to write about the city itself. Lake Havasu isn’t really a lake, it’s a dammed-up portion of the Colorado...

Pros: Easy Drive from Phoenix, Something for Everyone
Cons: Not a Thing

My husband and I just got back from a week long trip in Arizona. For those of you that may have been wondering why I haven't been reading your reviews lately, this certainly was a factor! We went to Arizona so that I could defend my dissertation. If...

Pros: Keeps taxes down....quite a tourist draw.
Cons: "Quite a tourist draw"!

Arizona is known for it's vast expands of desert and for it's beautiful sunsets. Lake Havasu City, Arizona is known mainly because of it's lake and the London Bridge. This is where I live....It is often referred to as "the hottest...

Pros: Completely diversified
Cons: None that I can't live with

The light of dawn finds the desert a piece at a time, first touching the highest peaks with orange while the rest of the world waits beneath a sea of blue light. Earlier in the week I experienced trying to capture an Arizona sunrise with words as I...

Pros: Beautiful scenery
Cons: Heat.

Arizona has always conjured up thoughts of cowboys riding into the sunset, big cactus and hot searing sun. I saw the cactus, and boy, did I feel the sun but I didn’t catch a glimpse of any cowboys.
I can’t really say I have been to Arizona but I...

Pros: A Mystical place where the sun does nice things to your head.
Cons: Endless visions...

"Well I'm standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona…such a fine sight to see…It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed-Ford, slowin' down to take a look at me…" (The Eagles, Take It Easy)

Northern Arizona is one of those magical places...

Pros: An amazing resource with learning opportunity galore.
Cons: Considerable walking. Tourist tours are not the primary focus.

What and Where One of the leading Tucson area attractions is Biosphere 2. Guests from elsewhere often ask where Biosphere 1 is. Biosphere is a term that refers to the thin envelope of soil, water, and atmosphere around Earth in which life is ...

Pros: Offers some spectacular things for the "natural beauty" buff
Cons: Route 66 in complete disrepair, desperate poverty, time-warp issues

Actual Arizonans should probably stop reading now. Or, at least, when you hit "not recommended," have the fortitude to leave a comment about just why Arizona is all that and a bag of chips. This also applies mostly to small-town...

Pros: cheap; weird
Cons: it's a gimmick, but it's fun

Smack-dab in the middle of NOWHERE in southern Arizona is the weirdest attraction that side of the Pecos. Along I-10, billboards beckon motorists for a hundred miles in either direction to something simply called, "The THING?"

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Pros: Weather, Scenic views everywhere, History!
Cons: Can have some mighty winds.

After living in sunny old California for close to 53 years, I never thought I could be happy living (full time) anywhere else.

Although I have only been is the state of Arizona for 1 year now, I'm finding it a wonderful place to live. The...

Pros: Great for baseball fans
Cons: You might not be one

Most Major League teams, including all of the franchises that play in cities east of Chicago, hold their spring training in Florida and play their exhibition games as part of the Grapefruit League. A growing number of MLB teams break camp in Arizona and...

Pros: Great if you're looking for that jackalope souvenir
Cons: History as a tawdry melodrama

Tombstone, once known as "the town too tough to die" should be re-nicknamed "the town that died and decomposed into a ticky-tacky tourist trap." Tombstone with its great name and colorful, movie-glorified history, was a big...

Pros: A lot of great places to see
Cons: dry, hot weather

Growing up, I've had the chance to visit Arizona many times. Considering the fact that I lived in New Mexico(Albuquerque to be exact), we were only about an 8 hour drive from some Arizona based camps, that had great locations. Also since we had friends...