Park City
Interactive exhibits tell the history of skiing in the West. There's also a virtual-reality ski theater and 2002 Olympic Winter Games Museum. It's at Utah…
Park City
Interactive exhibits tell the history of skiing in the West. There's also a virtual-reality ski theater and 2002 Olympic Winter Games Museum. It's at Utah…
Tucson
This wall-to-wall mosaic of about 7000 Tucsonian faces is a simple yet powerful testament to the diversity of the city's population. It's in the underpass…
Grand Canyon National Park South Rim
With dramatic views to both the east and west, Yaki Point is one of the best spots to catch the sunrise. Because it's accessible year-round by shuttle or…
Fremont Indian State Park & Museum
Southwestern Utah
Fremont Indian State Park & Museum contains more than 500 panels of Fremont Indian rock art on 12 interpretive trails, one of the largest collections in…
Grand Canyon National Park South Rim
Pima Point has good views of Hermit Camp on the Tonto Platform and the Hermit Rapids on the Colorado River, as well as some sections of the Hermit Trail…
Salt Lake City
Kids can help farmhands milk cows and there are also tractor-drawn wagon rides into the wooded back acres at this historic 1898 farm. Tours of the farm…
Wasatch Mountains
The what’s-this-doing-here Museum of Art at Brigham Young University is one of the biggest in the Southwest, with a concentration on American art.
Salt Lake City
Adjoining Temple Sq, this interactive museum has impressive exhibits of pioneer history and fine art.
Tucson
This 2781-sq-mile national forest includes the Santa Catalina and Rincon Mountains, north of Tucson.
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Wasatch Mountains
Three beautiful caves in Timpanogos Cave National Monument are accessible on ranger-led tours.
Grand Canyon National Park South Rim
Commissioned by the Fred Harvey Company, designed by Mary Colter and completed in 1935, the log-and-stone Bright Angel Lodge offered canyon travelers…
Taos
In 1924, Mabel Dodge Luhan gave DH Lawrence's wife, Frieda, this 160-acre ranch, now administered by the University of New Mexico, where the Lawrence…
Las Vegas
Having partially shaken off its historically tropical theme, the Mirage retains its huge rain forest atrium of lush, tropical foliage and has updated the…
Grand Canyon National Park South Rim
Built in 1905 as a railroad hotel, El Tovar was designed by Charles Whittlesey as a blend of Swiss chalet and the more rustic style that would come to…
Arizona
Montezuma St, west of Courthouse Plaza, was once the infamous Whiskey Row, where 40 drinking establishments supplied suds to rough-hewn cowboys, miners…
Las Vegas
Long before golf courses, lawns and palm trees filled Las Vegas with greenery, there were a few farmers who eked out lives here in the tough Mojave Desert…
McCarran International Airport Viewing Area
Las Vegas
With some 43 million travelers visiting Las Vegas each year, the skies above Sin City are filled daily with airliners landing and taking off. Thrill…
Tucson
Sabino Canyon, a lush, pretty and shaded mini-gorge, is well worth a visit in fine weather. Narrated hop-on, hop-off tram tours along the Sabino Canyon…
Albuquerque
The lava fields preserved in this large desert park, west of the Rio Grande, are adorned with more than 23,000 ancient petroglyphs (1000 BC–AD 1700)…
Las Vegas
A five-block pedestrian mall, between Main St and N Las Vegas Blvd, topped by an arched steel canopy and filled with computer-controlled lights, the…
Albuquerque
The United States' longest aerial tram climbs 2.7 miles from the desert floor in the northeast corner of the city to the summit of 10,378ft Sandia Crest…
Las Vegas
The ultramodern Palms casino hotel burns brightly with a mix of entertainment designed to seduce gen-Xers and -Yers. Infamous for its starring role on MTV…
Santa Fe
Santa Fe’s French-born bishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy – hero of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop – set about building this cathedral in 1869. Its…
Santa Fe
Built as a fortified residence along the Camino Real, the 'Ranch of the Swallows' is nearly as old as Santa Fe itself. Now it’s a 200-acre living museum,…
Salt Lake City
Lording over Temple Sq is the impressive 210ft-tall Salt Lake Temple. Atop the tallest spire stands a statue of the angel Moroni, who appeared to LDS…
Santa Fe
Built in 1917 and a prime early example of Santa Fe’s Pueblo Revival architecture, the New Mexico Museum of Art has spent a century collecting and…
Las Vegas
In recent years, TI, now privately owned, has undergone a progressive transformation away from its family friendly 'pirate' roots toward a more adult…
Albuquerque
Set on 60 shady acres beside the Rio Grande and home to chimpanzees, giraffes, elephants, crocodiles and more, this zoo puts on a busy schedule of events…
Santa Fe
The oldest shrine in the US to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of Mexico, this adobe church was constructed between 1776 and 1796, though there have…
Las Vegas
The former Aladdin resort was swimming in a sea of debt when Planet Hollywood bought it in 2003. Now owned by Caesars group, the property's flashy casino…
Santa Fe
Erected from 1610 onwards, by and for the Tlaxcalan Indians who arrived from Mexico with Santa Fe’s first Spanish colonists, this is considered to be the…
Grand Canyon National Park South Rim
A beautiful Mary Colter–designed stone building, Hopi House has been offering high-quality American Indian jewelry, basketwork, pottery and other crafts…
Santa Fe
New Mexico’s State Capitol, informally known as the Roundhouse, was laid out in the shape of the state symbol – also the emblem of Zia Pueblo – in 1966…
Salt Lake City
The grand, 1916 State Capitol is set among 500 cherry trees on a hill north of Temple Sq. Inside, colorful Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals of…
Las Vegas
Slip away from the madness inside the Flamingo’s wildlife habitat, out back behind the casino. Over a dozen acres of pools, gardens, waterfalls and water…
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe
Mary Cabot established this museum in 1937 to showcase Navajo ceremonial art, and its major strength is Navajo and Zuni jewelry, in particular silverwork…
Santa Fe
Built in 1878 for the Sisters of Loretto, this tiny Gothic chapel is famous as the site of St Joseph's Miraculous Staircase, a spiraling and apparently…
Albuquerque
From the lofty high-wire bike to the mind-boggling Light, Shadow, Color area, this gung-ho museum offers a hands-on exhibit for every type of child (don't…
Salt Lake City
You'll find relics from the early days at Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) museums throughout Utah, but the Pioneer Memorial Museum is by far the biggest…
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