Explore Southern Arizona
Southern Arizona, home to the Valley of the Sun, has been drawing visitors with its Old West charm, natural wonders, history, and culture for years. The most popular of all the tourism regions, it is home to cities such as Phoenix, Scottsdale, Anthem, and Sun City. Tucson is a perfect hub for nature lovers who are set on exploring Arizona's exciting terrain. One of the city's most unique features is nearby Mt. Lemmon, which boasts, of all things, the southernmost ski resort in the nation. Located out from the Santa Cruz River Valley, Tucson's landscape extends over cactus-ridden deserts, a subterranean environment and, at times, snow-topped mountains. Oracle is located in the northern woodlands of the Catalina Mountains and is a popular area for mountain biking, hiking, and horseback riding on trails like the Oracle branch of the Arizona trail. From across the country and around the world, visitors have reveled in Phoenix, the sixth-largest city in the country’s, temperate climate, golfed on its lush fairways, hiked its cactus-studded peaks and savored its diverse cuisines. East of Phoenix is Apache Junction, close to it all, but far enough away from the hustle and bustle. This vacation destination still has the wide open spaces that people come west to find and with all the amenities one may need either found locally or very close by, the Apache Junction area is an inviting refuge in the stress-filled environment of today. Plentiful in history and culture, Scottsdale and Paradise Valley are known world wide for their abundance of fashionable art galleries, luxurious resorts, decadent spas, flourishing fairways, and exclusive lifestyle. With numerous golf courses in the area, as well as, McDowell Mountains a 57-square-mile refuge for hikers, equestrians and mountain bikers, it is understandable why people flock to the area for outdoor fun. Arizona's third-largest city, Mesa, combines metropolitan amenities with outdoor activities to provide visitors with everything a resort town needs, including golf resorts, rugged recreation areas, and numerous museums and cultural attractions. Hiking, biking and horseback riding in the nearby Superstition Mountains and Usery Mountain Recreation Area are popular activities, and so are boating on Saguaro and Canyon lakes and tubing on the Salt River during the summer.
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