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Never mind I looked it up, you can’t visit the airplane graveyard near Tucson anymore.

The Pima Air Museum is a kick if you are into older and historic planes.

If you don’t want to drive you can get a Grand Canyon site seeing flight out of Phoenix.

If you do want to drive, stop at Montezuma Castle and the cave dwellings and go out to Sedona and Flagstaff before you go over. That is too much for one day so you’d want to get a hotel in Flagstaff.

There are also flights from Grand Canyon city at the south entrance right before you go into the park. two years ago they were 125 a personIIRC.

If you like zoos and those types of things, there’s also a decent aquarium, I think it was in Mesa.

If you have the time a visit to the Heard Museum in Phoenix will open your eyes about the US Government. It's worth seeing and the restaurant has pretty good food too.

Sound wisdom.

Antelope Canyon will be a drive, almost to UT state line. You can see south rim of Grand Canyon on way back.

It may be cold and windy at Page (antelope canyon) and south rim Grand Canyon in mid-march.

Not Fargo cold and windy, but won't be Phoenix/Cactus/warm in winter weather.

Flagstaff has nice little natural history museum called Museum of Northern Arizona.

Phoenix has very good Native American Museum called Heard Museum (recommended above)

Phoenix Zoo not too bad, pretty good sized.

Another option would be to go other direction, to Tucson.

visit Sahuaro National Park, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (really a zoo), Titan Missile Museum, visit University of Arizona, and drive up to Mt Lemmon. You could also visit the Pima Air and Space Museum


You would see a bunch of interesting country, and stay a lot warmer than Fargo, except for the drive to Mt Lemmon

Don't use the bathroom at the Texaco in Tuba City.

I’ll be rafting down through the Canyon during your visit. I’ll try to watch for you. If I see you wave, I’ll wave back. Kayaked it 10 years ago, looking forward to a more leisurely ride this time.

man you ain't kiddin.........the armpit of northern AZ

Easy to go over the posted speed limit on the rez..........so watch it !

North Rim still be snowed in

They may still be plowing snow in Flagstaff

Make it as far as Kanab ?

Best Mex joint in town

Sycamore and tikkanut have good advice. We enjoyed flagstaff and page, into Utah. I’ll never go to the Grand Canyon again, and would drive hours out of my way to avoid Sedona if I had to. I’d take a pass on cottonwood again also. Did enjoy the zoo and museums in phoenix.

White tank mountain park is just outside Phoenix and was a pleasant surprise so close to town.

Bathrooms at Cameron Trading Post are very clean, but you have to pull off the highway a bit to park.

Sinclair station at the Gap usually is in pretty good shape.

Not sure what the deal is, but the Sinclair Stations across the Navajo Res are uniformly clean, and bathrooms well-maintained.

Other brands are a little more "hit or miss" (sometimes literally!)

I like the Desert Museum , which is more like a zoo, near Tucson, but that's out of the question time wise.

Remember though.......

Mid 1990's on Hwy 89 west of Page..........

Driving along minding my own business.......

'89 4Runner......@ 70 mph....whole damm truck starting shaking...??????

Hit the brakes & headed for the shoulder...just then look up ^^^^^^

Rivets of the belly of an F16 !!!!!!!!!!

He buzzed me and was G O N E !!!!!!!!!!! (sum bitch)

This is NO BS..........remember it like it happened yesterday

Pilot prob laughed his nuts off back to base

If you are into history even a little bit then Tombstone is an absolute must in my opinion. I've been three times and will most likely go again. They have done a pretty good job at not letting it get too "touristy" like many other historical sites have. The remaining buildings have been kept as original as possible and house museums, theaters, bars, etc. I could read those old newspaper articles they have archived for hours.

I'm not going to begin to tell you what you should try to jam into a long weekend in AZ, but this is where to go to discover weekend highway closures in the metro Phoenix area, which may save you some time going from place to place:

https://azdot.gov/

Sedona is some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. It's more accessible for hiking than Grand Canyon, which is beyond spectacular of course.There are interesting old farms, cliff dwellings, pictographs in the vicinity of Sedona as well. One of the scariest drives of my life was in a March snowstorm between Sedona and Flagstaff. Lots of people stranded over night. Their road crews are not like Colorado. Snow in Grand Canyon and long lines. Can't drive through the Rez going North from there on account of Covid or something. Tuba City and the Rez is spectacular in the opposite direction. Fastest way around Phoenix is detour to Death Valley and back. Wife loves the Saguaros. I don't get it...

Arizona is about 500 miles long and 350 miles wide... trying to fit Tombstone and Antelope canyon in a 3 day weekend is like saying you are going to Los Angeles, from there going down to San Diego one day and up to San Francisco another, in 3 days.

Kent

The term is often overused, but it truly is an amazing state when compared to most. A ton of good info above, and the comments about time and distances are spot on.