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Side Trips Near Tucson

Interstate 19 heads south from Tucson through Tubac to Nogales at the border of Mexico, carrying with it history buffs, bird-watchers, hikers, art enthusiasts, duffers, and shoppers. The road roughly follows the Camino Real (King's Road), which the conquistadors and missionaries traveled from Mexico up to what was once the northernmost portion of New Spain.

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Madera Canyon

This prime hiking and birding area south of Tucson is where the Coronado National Forest meets the Santa Rita Mountains. Higher elevations and thick pine...

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The ASARCO Mineral Discovery Center

The American Smelting and Refining Company (abbreviated as ASARCO) gives visitors a glimpse not only of a vast, open-pit mine but also of the complex...

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Titan Missile Museum

The Titan Missile Museum houses one of the 54 missile silos built around the country during the Cold War in case the United States needed...

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Tubac

Established in 1726, Tubac is the site of the first European settlement in Arizona. A year after the Pima uprising in 1751, a military garrison...

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Tumacacori National Historic Park

Father Kino established the Tumacácori Mission in 1791, but the Jesuits didn't build a church here until 60 years later. Walk through the mission ruins...

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