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Although Tucson's fantastic weather, national parks and forests and desert provide the perfect environment for tons of outdoor recreational activities, this city of half a million people also has its share of history and culture. With a history that goes back much further than many of its southwestern neighbors, Tucson boasts turn-of-the-century architecture, historic neighborhoods, museums and the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a still-functioning 18th-century mission considered one of the most beautiful in the U.S. Mexican and Native American influences are pervasive, and the city has a distinctly Western flavor. There's also a college-town atmosphere, thanks to the University of Arizona, which has its own share of museums and a science center. Whether golfing at a world-class golf resort, horseback riding, hiking in the wilderness, discovering desert flora and fauna at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum or exploring pre-Columbian and other art at the Tucson Art Museum, you'll have a mind-boggling array of things to do.
Restaurants in Tucson
1. The Rogue Theatre
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 45 reviews
The Rogue Theatre recently announced its 2017-18 season and tickets are available through our web site or by calling our box office. There will be five productions in this our thirteenth season. September: Celia, a Slave by Barbara Seyda; November: Bach at Leipzig by Itamar Moses; January: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati; Feb - March: Three Tall Women by Edward Albee; April - May: King Lear. We continue to fulfill our mission of emphasizing language and literature with a company of actors presenting plays with complex and provocative points of view.
2. Fox in a Box Tucson
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 121 reviews
Tucson's most immersive escape rooms! We provide three real life puzzle games! We are the highest quality escape room experience in Tucson and we are located in central Tucson, next to bars, restaurants, museums and the U of A! Try saving the world from zombies, steal diamonds from a locked vault, or save Tombstone from dynamite in just 60 minutes! Have fun in Tucson and bring an exciting, fun-filled story back home!
Reviewed By 413katrinam - Tucson, United States
This is the third year in a row our family has come to Fox in a Box for our annual escape adventure. It's become our Christmas holiday tradition– a present to the whole family from one of our adult daughters. 2 years ago we started with the Zombie Lab and had a blast. With all 5 of us working together, talking our way through the details we noticed in the room and thinking out loud, we were able to puzzle our way through. We used several of the offered hints and solved the zombie crisis with some time to spare. It was a blast. One year ago we tackled the Bank Robbery room– this time bringing along an extra person. This room was somewhat harder to solve than the Zombie Lab we had done before, but with a group of 6 of us, once again we found that by talking out loud and working together we made a great team and were able to finish the challenge. We were excited to hear Fox in a Box opened a third room in time for our annual visit last month, and once again had a lot of fun solving the Wild West room. We are looking forward to additional rooms being opened for our next visit. It's a great family outing!
3. Arizona Climbing Guides
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5.0 based on 10 reviews
We are a locally owned and operated climbing and adventure guide service. We are Arizona's most highly certified guides, offering instruction from AMGA Certified Rock Guides!
4. Greentoes
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
Greentoes, an Eco Chic Mani Pedi Studio & Day Spa, practicing eco awareness and beauty. Come in an find your calm during a manicure, pedicure, facial, back facial, massage or waxing. Find yourself and your calm at Greentoes.
5. First United Methodist Church,tucson, Campus
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5.0 based on 2 reviews
Reviewed By robbygc - Toronto, Canada
I am proud that they have a church for students at the University. There is parking here. Sunday's services in English at 10 A.M. There is a huge tree. The cross is at the top. They also have a campus Christian Center. The church is beige There are palm trees as well. I like that!
6. Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
7. Main Gate Square, Tucson
8. Arizona History Museum
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4.5 based on 98 reviews
The Arizona History Museum's focus is southern Arizona history from Spanish colonial through territorial eras. Exhibit topics include mining and transportation. The Arizona's Treasures exhibit features Geronimo's rifle, 18th-century Spanish silver artifacts, and hands-on exhibits for children.
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
The Arizona State Museum in Tucson, founded in 1893, is the oldest and largest anthropological research museum in the southwestern United States with expansive collections that are exceptional resources for the teaching, study and understanding of the region's 13,000-year-old human history. Located at 949 East 2nd Street, on the University of Arizona campus, near the center of the Tucson metropolitan area, in a historic Josias Joesler-designed building, it houses the stories and artifacts of Arizona personalities such as Geronimo and Wyatt Earp as well as Emperor and Empress Maximilian and Carlotta of Mexico. Family-oriented exhibits include an 1870s underground mining tunnel and a hands-on-recreation of 1870s Tucson. The museum has 38,000 cubic feet of archaeological research materials and curates millions of modern objects created by the Native American cultures of the region. The collections include 525,000 photographic prints, negatives and transparencies, 300,000 archaeological artifacts, 100,000 books and journals, 40,000 ethnographic objects, 35,000 basketry and fiber specimens dating back 7,000 years, 6,000 maps, 20,000 whole ceramic vessels dating back 2,000 years, over 1,000 sound recordings, 250 movie films, 1,200 microfilm reels of Spanish colonial documents, 1,500 linear feet of archival documents and 4,000 vertebrate specimens. The museum holds the world's largest and most comprehensive collections of Southwest Indian pottery and American Indian basketry. See Wyatt Earp's pistol and Geronimo's rifle and binoculars, old stagecoaches and buggies, even a chuck wagon and Santa Ana's uniform. Not to mention a history of the Apache Indians in the Southwest, descriptions of early pioneer and ranch life along the Arizona/Mexican border and exhibits on "Tucson's Black History" and "Mine Workers of Bisbee." This is a well organized museum that covers an enormous amount of history of southern Arizona that you can't find anywhere else.
9. University of Arizona
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 586 reviews
Whether we are orbiting an asteroid or determining how we feed 9 billion people, Arizona Wildcats are continually looking to explore, experiment and expand. The campus is home to a variety of attractions to fill your day. From living laboratories to world-class fine art to cultural attractions there is something for everyone. We also have free, public tours available during academic year. See, play, explore, Arizona. Visit our website for more information: http://visitorcenter.arizona.edu/
Reviewed By jhunga530104 - Tucson, United States
The campus is very attractive and pleasant to walk through. They have a botanical garden, a fine art museum, a terrific collection of Ansel Adams and other photography, a poetry center, a giant mirror to study the stars, often an evening dance, music, or theater performance to attend, a large bookstore, and of course many athletic events.
10. Postal History Foundation
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4.5 based on 11 reviews
Reviewed By Y4035QGmichaelr - Woodstock, United States
New friends Robyn and Lief told us about the Postal History Foundation. My wife was a philatelist as a child and through the early years of our marriage. A stop at the Postal HIstory Foundation was a real delight. The volunteers were tremendously helpful and accomodating; we saw the history of postal machines including a postal station "kit" that was ordered and shipped to Naco, AZ in the late 1800s. The kit was setup inside the Wells Fargo Stage Coach office to aid in the delivery of mail in that region. When the Wells Fargo building was demolished, the foundation was able to retrieve the kit/office! The volunteers serve teachers and schools around the world by creating lesson plans and providing postal supplies including stamps for students to use in learning about history, geography, science and any other subject contained in stamps. (We were given a collection of stamps with mountain lions on them to share with a friend/potographer who has yet to see one in the wild. He was touched.
