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Majestic Mountains & sites on a Arizona Vacation, try a rental
An Arizona Vacation is spectacular as no other state offers such diverse landscape and vacation versatility. Known for its Grand Canyon and tranquil desert sunsets, Arizona offers so much more. With majestic mountain ranges, cool pine forests with changing seasons, swift rivers, calm mountain streams, colorful meadows and massive canyon lakes, A Arizona Vacation is a must. Few know that Arizona has the largest stand of Ponderosa Pine in the world and temperature ranges that actually accommodate water skiing and snow skiing in the same day.
On your Arizona vacation, visit the Hoover Dam, an engineering marvel high above the Colorado river between Arizona and Nevada. Take in the Kartchner Caverns that are a wonder of natural beauty with the many Stalagmites that hang like colossal icicles, mirrored by stalactites projecting up from the floor. Some of them meet to form columns with one stalactite and stalagmite in the Throne Room have joined together in 58-feet of organic matrimony, producing the tallest column in Arizona. This extraordinary travertine sculpture is called Kubla Khan, perhaps for its meaning: a poetic fragment. The Throne Room also displays the longest recorded calcite soda straw in the world, reaching a stunning 21 feet, 2 inches.
Lake Powell is like no other lake on earth. Its stunningly beautiful red canyon walls tower above blue-green crystal clear water abounds with water recreation pleasure. House-boating, great fishing, spectacular camping alongside nature, beaches of rosy sand and the tranquility of night skies with the world's brightest stars.
Another interesting site to take in on your Arizona vacation is visiting Montezuma Castle, an ancient Indian Tribe called the Sinaqua built the cliff dwellings called Montezuma Castle about 700 years ago in the early 1300s. These were dwellings carved out of the Limestone cliffs and used ladders to climb from place to place.
No Arizona vacation would be complete without a visit to the town of Tombstone Arizona, famous for the gunfight between the Earps and the Clantons. Tombstone was a booming mining town in the late 1800's which was a draw for many people hoping to strike it rich.
San Xavier del Bac is a treasure of southwestern history, an 18th century religious beacon that calls all to experience. Whether your interests lie in religion, history or art, San Xavier del Bac is an attraction you don't want to miss when visiting Tucson and Southern Arizona on your Arizona vacation, and the architecture was the most profound of the early Spanish missions and the brilliantly colorful artistic embellishments are spectacular.
Whatever you are looking for, Arizona has more than enough interesting sites to keep an traveler busy for quite some time.