Best American Arizona: Grand Canyon, Sedona, Monument Valley, Phoenix, Tucson and Arizona Deep Southwest Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: United States travel | Americas destinations Best American Arizona: Grand Canyon, Sedona, Monument Valley, Phoenix, Tucson and Arizona Deep Southwest Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR I spent the better part of a month criss-crossing Arizona on a loop that started in Phoenix, climbed north to Sedona, pushed into the high desert toward the Grand Canyon, swung east through Navajo country, and dropped south through Tucson and the old silver-mining ghost roads near the Mexican border. By the end of that loop I was sun-cracked, dusty, and quietly convinced that Arizona is the single most photogenic state in the American Southwest. Nowhere else in the United States layers UNESCO-grade geology, living Native American culture, Wild West mythology, and easy-access modern cities into such a compact, drivable package. The Grand Canyon (446 km long, 29 km wide, and 1,857 m deep) inscribed by UNESCO in 1979 still draws around 6 million visitors a year, yet the moment you ste...