Tucson, Arizona City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Tucson, Arizona Travel Guide has been your connection to Tucson's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Wild West Trips
 Put on your spurs and gallop into the Old West. Not far from downtown Tucson are several historic towns that make you feel like you are walking on to the set of an old Western movie. Once a mining camp, Bisbee, a former copper mining town, is 90 miles south of Tucson. The restored Main Street boasts an eclectic artist colony, shops, restaurants and charming architecture on the site of the notorious Brewery Gulch, known for its shady ladies and wild saloons.
Close by is Benson, the region's railroad hub during the mining days. There is a preserved, historic downtown area including a restored train depot and it is best known as the home of Kartchner Caverns State park with its beautiful limestone caves.
If nothing else, make the trip to Tombstone, the site of the famous shootout at the O.K. Corral. Not only are there daily reenactments of the shoot-out but you can visit the gunfighters' tombstones at Boothill Graveyard or take a stagecoach ride through the tumbleweeds in town where entertainers in period costumes serve down-home barbecue and ale.
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