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We are heading to Arizona for a long weekend in mid March. We have never been to Arizona, 16 and 13 yr old daughters are coming with. Flying into Chandler AZ area. We definitely will drive to the Grand Canyon, there is a zoo we will go too. Any other must sees ?
Thanks in advance,
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We usually do most of our AZ exploring around Quartzsite.
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What do you wanna do? Travel around or stay in the Phoenix area? Wanna do much outdoors stuff or museums and such? How long you gonna be in AZ?
Wanna stay in the desert areas or go north where it’s colder and pine trees?
You mention seeing the Grand Canyon. Maybe take the train outta Williams.
Lots to see and do in AZ. Very diverse State.
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Will you be staying in Williams or near the Grand Canyon? A couple day there would be nice. Cold, but nice.
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How many days do you have in play?
South east look at Tombstone
South West look at Yuma, prison is good.
West, LondonBridge
North look at Grand Canyon
North East look to Page and the Navajo reservation.
North you have the Meteor crater
Montezuma monument is a nice stop
Their are points to take in while going to all these places.
The phoenix zoo. Is ok to take in.
There are good museums to take in in the phoenix area.
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We are heading to Arizona for a long weekend in mid March. We have never been to Arizona, 16 and 13 yr old daughters are coming with. Flying into Chandler AZ area. We definitely will drive to the Grand Canyon, there is a zoo we will go too. Any other must sees ?
Thanks in advance, your Grand Canyon trip will tie up better part of 2 days, from Chandler, easy 3-4 hours each way, plus what ever time you spend on the Rim. Weather in mid March could be warm and sunny (Chandler) to cold and snowy (south rim, Grand Canyon) Might be some spring training baseball in the Phoenix area around that time. depends on how much of the time you want to spend in the car, vs being outside in the warmish weather
...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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We will be there Friday -Sunday fly in Thursday evening fly out Monday morning
Thinking drive to antelope canyon Friday, Grand Canyon Saturday (south rim)hike or horseback ride- Sunday Chandler zoo ?
Quick trip but that’s ok
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Long weekend in chandler doesn't make the grand canyon visit logical... best you can do is a long burnout day, 8 hours driving at best, couple hours stopping to eat both ways and restroom... 10 hours on the road. For a few hours seeing. I've done it, but it's no fun really.
The zoo is nice, may still have the dinosaur exhibit then.
Touristy as hell but so is the grand canyon... take the kids to the Goldfield ghost town in Apache junction... food, exhibits, old west gunfights every hour. Same area is the superstition museum where they moved the old Apache Land Movie buildings, gunfights and some neat stuff to look at.
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Can you visit that airplane graveyard?
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Spring training baseball, hotels will be premium at this time. Skip the GrandCanyon you don't have enough time. Ostrich festival may be going, Renaissance festival might still be going. Go see the Ghost town out of Apache Junction. Phx zoo is OK.
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Chandler to Grand Canyon^^^according to Google. I wouldn't spend time at the zoo or baseball. Go see something Arizona-ish instead. Bruce
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I think a trip to the border would be the tits!
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If I ever get to Arizona I think I'd go to the grand canyon and never leave.
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You are seeing a bunch of good advice here - not much one could add except personal likes. One suggestion - if you do drive from the valley up to the Grand Canyon, think about getting off I17 at 89a and taking the nice scenic drive through Sedona and up the big hill on the 2 lane, back to I17 before Flag. At least one nice lookout on the way up.
Have a great trip.
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I think a trip to the border would be the tits! Good one. But, kinda depends on what kind of tits you like, and how much.
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I thought meteor crater east of Flagstaff was really really cool.
The ripples in the terrain toward the north and west are amazing.
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The Canyon is amazing I could spend a LOT of time there.. Lots to see all over the state, I'm jealous.
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