Towns in Arizona

This small town with a friendly atmosphere in Yavapai County has plenty of history for visitors to enjoy. There’s a quaint old downtown area with Wild West shop fronts, restaurants, and an interesting museum which reveals the history of the area. The landscape surrounding the north Camp Verde area is ideal for adventurous travelers, who can hike among the spectacular cliffs of the Mogollon Rim.

The town of Carefree is more than just a whimsical name. Bizarrely, this town is also home to one of the largest sundials in the world – in fact, the largest in the United States. That’s right, built in 1959, the Carefree Sundial stands 11 meters tall and extends 22 meters.

The old town of Winslow was once a Route 66 Town before the famous road was rerouted in 1977. However, just because the road doesn’t connect to the town anymore, doesn’t mean it should be overlooked. Winslow is home to stylish hotels like the historic La Posada, but is most well known to music fans for featuring in The Eagle’s song ‘Take it Easy’. As the song goes ‘I was standing on a corner of Winslow Arizona…’ That very corner from the song is now home to a statue of a man and his guitar. The statue draws in thousands of visitors, who stop off to pose for pictures with the man on the corner. There’s even an annual ‘standing on a corner’ festival in town.

It isn’t just the name of this Cochise County town that makes it a cool place to visit, just to take a picture of the sign. Tombstone is a historic town which is famous not only as an important silver mining town but also because it’s the site of one of the most famous incidents of the American Wild West: the shootout at the O.K. Corral. The incident didn’t actually happen in or at the O.K. Corral; it was a few doors down at a vacant lot owned by Wild West photographer C.S. Fly.

Dubbed ‘The Gateway to the Grand Canyon’, this small town is well known for being the Southern Terminus for the Grand Canyon Railway, which ferries visitors from the downtown station to the world famous site. Williams sits on the iconic Route 66 and is a popular place for travelers to rest along the way, with many motels, restaurants, and bars in town to cater to them.

Arcosanti in Yavapai County is an unusual town in that the construction of it is ongoing and has been since 1970. The buildings here are a reflection of arcology – architecture and ecology – for a humanistically effective yet environmentally friendly town. If you are a fan of architecture, you are going to love wandering around here taking pictures.