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Road trips · Arizona
Arizona road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Arizona — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Happening in Arizona
WM Phoenix Open
Barely two dozen marquee events hit the whole country in a year — and Arizona has one this February. Roamward builds the trip around it: the scenic route in, the detours worth a slack day, and when rooms sell out.
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Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's desert masterwork and winter home — architecture that grows straight out of the Sonoran landscape.
A former hospital turned hotel clinging to Cleopatra Hill — Arizona's most famously haunted overnight.
A "Wonderland of Rocks" sky island in the far southeast — hoodoo forests almost nobody drives to.
A vertical old copper-mining town turned artist colony in the Mule Mountains, an hour past Tombstone.
A 50,000-year-old impact crater off I-40 — a near-perfect bowl you can stand on the rim of.
Worth traveling for
Events that put Arizona on the calendar.
Tee it up
Public golf you can book in Arizona.
Scottsdale · $$$$$ — Lush Fazio desert parkland
Scottsdale · $$$$$ — Heaven and Hell par 3
Peoria · $$$$$ — Isolated mountain-desert masterpiece
Scottsdale · $$$$$ — Home of the rowdy 16th
Scottsdale · $$$$$ — Desert target golf icon
Scottsdale · $$$$$ — Boulders, canyons, big carries
Plan the Arizona trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
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