| The Sun Canyon Inn
welcomes visitors from all over the world to sunny
Sierra Vista, historic Fort Huachuca, and 360
annual days of blue skies. At just 2 miles from
the Sierra Vista Municipal Airport, Sun Canyon
Inn is nestled at the heart of the vast and beautiful
Sonoran Desert, bedrock of the mighty Huachuca
Mountains and home to the Apache and Navajo. This
is the land where great chiefs such as Geronimo
and Cochise lived, hunted, and prayed to their
gods. It is a place where history reveals itself
through the stories of the Buffalo Soldiers and
the tales of early pioneers who explored and settled
an untamed wilderness. This is the place where
mining settlements that were “too tough to die”
witnessed the rise and fall of some of the most
celebrated and notorious gunslingers of the Old
West, men like Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, and Ike
Clanton. |
(20 miles north
on Hwy 90)
Discovered in 1974, Kartchner
Caverns remained a tightly guarded secret until
1988 when the Arizona Legislature approved its
purchase as a state park. Now, Arizona’s newest
wonder is open to the public and accepting reservations.
A spectacular underground network of tunnels
and passages, Kartchner Caverns contains 28
of the 30 geological formations known to cavers.
On your guided tour of these living caves, you
will explore subterranean chambers the size
of football fields and see Kublai Khan, a 58-foot
limestone column that has been millions of years
in the making. |
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(16 miles east on
Charleston Road)
Many of Tombstone, Arizona’s
historic buildings reside within an area bounded
by Fremont, 6th, Toughnut, and 3rd Street. Among
these are St. Paul's Episcopal Church, built
in 1882; the Crystal Palace Saloon, one of the
most luxurious saloons in the Old West; and
the Tombstone Epitaph building, where the oldest
continuously published newspaper in Arizona
is still being printed. Visit the famous Boot
Hill Cemetery and see a professional reenactment
of the shootout at the O.K. Corral. Gain a glimpse
of the Nineteenth Century when you visit Tombstone,
“the town too tough to die.” |
(26 miles south
on Hwy 90 & 80)
One of the West’s most prosperous
copper-mining towns in days gone by, Bisbee
is now an eclectic artists’ colony. Stroll its
picturesque sidewalks, and find delight in the
numerous art galleries, gourmet restaurants,
coffeehouses, bookstores, and specialty shops
that line Bisbee’s winding streets. Visit the
restored neighborhoods of charming Victorian
and European-style houses that dot the hillsides.
Bisbee promises a one-of-a-kind alternative
to your everyday world. |
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