Reid Park is an urban oasis featuring playgrounds, a rose garden, duck pond, dog parks, and ramadas for cookouts and celebrations.

Nestled in the Coronado National Forest at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Sabino Canyon offers more than 30 miles of picturesque hiking trails and tram tours through a stunning desert landscape. 

Agua Caliente, meaning hot water, features a perennial warm spring and pond with an exceptionally diverse mix of plants and animals. Agua Caliente Park boasts a rich history, with evidence of human habitation dating back approximately 5,500 years and an 1873 ranch.

A popular spot for a quick but vigorous hike, Tumamoc Hill is an 860-acre ecological preserve in the middle of the city, offering panoramic views while holding deep cultural and historic significance. At the midway point, you’ll find U of A’s 120-year-old Desert Laboratory.

Home to the nation's largest cacti, this national park showcases the unique beauty of the Sonoran Desert with trails for every level of hiker.

Mount Lemmon is the highest point in the Santa Catalina Mountains, topping out at more than 9,000 feet. Escape the desert heat with a drive up to this cool, forested mountain, which offers camping, hiking, and winter skiing. Download U of A’s Mt. Lemmon Science Tour app for a narrated guide to the 26-mile Sky Island Scenic Byway. 

A unique fusion of zoo, botanical garden, and natural history museum, offering an immersive experience into the diverse ecosystems of the Sonoran Desert.

One of the world’s largest aviation museums, the Pima Air and Space Museum features over 400 aircraft and spacecraft that span the history of flight.

This U of A museum, housed inside of the Pima County Historic Courthouse downtown, is dedicated to providing public education and the preservation of its natural history collection while also serving the research needs of professionals, students, and collectors. The collection is worldwide in scope, but with specific emphasis on minerals from Arizona and Mexico.

Housed in a repurposed firehouse downtown, MOCA is Tucson’s only museum devoted exclusively to contemporary art from around the globe. 

Step into a world of tiny treasures, where intricate miniature houses and detailed dioramas span different eras and cultures.

The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block connects art to life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity and promote cultural understanding.

Located at Mt. Lemmon’s 9,157-foot summit, the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter is Steward Observatory’s "sky island" science learning facility. The facility offers educational programming including SkyNights, a night-time observing program that provides access to star charts, binoculars, and the superb 32-inch Schulman telescope, the largest dedicated public telescope in the Southwest. 

Established in 1964, the Kitt Peak Visitor Center has had over two million visitors and boasts the largest and most diverse collection of research telescopes in any one place in the world. Three of the nearly two dozen active telescopes on Kitt Peak are dedicated solely to public viewing.

Mount Graham International Observatory (MGIO) is a division of Steward Observatory, the research arm for the U of A’s Department of Astronomy. Scientific researchers from around the world make use of MGIO facilities located at the remote observing site in the Pinaleño Mountains in southeast Arizona. This area is part of the Coronado National Forest, and camping and visitor activities are available at Eastern Arizona College's Discovery Park Campus, the official visitor's center for the telescopes on Mount Graham. They conduct weekend tours of the Mount Graham International Observatory. Weather permitting, the tours begin in mid-May and go through October.