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Arizona Scenic Drives

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  • Take about an hour to fully enjoy this road.
  • 14.5 miles (23 km)

The Sedona-Oak Creek Canyon Scenic Road was designated by the Arizona Department of Transportation on August 24, 1984. This route follows U.S. 89A through the scenic canyon, made popular in the 1920s when it was discovered by Hollywood. This scenic road offers a rare opportunity to study a variety o...

  • Plan for 3-6 hours to drive, including backtracking.
  • 27.2 miles (43 km)

Travel along one of the most scenic highways in the Southwest, complete with mountain forests, canyons, deserts, and breathtaking vistas. One of the only paved roads leading up to the top of Mt. Lemmon, it begins in the Lower Sonoran region and climbs up to the forests of the Canadian zone, providin...

  • 1 hour
  • 15 miles
  • Paved

Snowbowl Scenic Drive passes through thick forests before breaking out into the high mountain meadows of the San Francisco Peaks.

  • 1 hour
  • 23 miles
  • Cinder surfaced

Spring Valley Road Scenic Drive passes through a pinyon-juniper woodland as it enters the forest from the west. Within a few miles, the vegetation changes to ponderosa pine and the north side of Sitgreaves Mountain and its larger neighbor to the east, Kendrick Mountain, come into view.

  • 1-2 hours
  • 33 miles
  • Paved

Arizona Hwy 366 is also known as the Swift Trail Parkway and the Mount Graham Scenic Road. This road climbs quickly from 3200' to 10,717' as you climb Mount Graham.

  • 1-2 hours
  • 27 mile round trip
  • Cinder surfaced

Sycamore Canyon Vista Scenic Drive takes you to an overlook of the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Area.

  • Cinder surfaced

Sycamore Point Scenic Drive provides access to a breathtaking view of lower Sycamore Canyon, with Mingus Mountain on the distant horizon.

  • 1 hour
  • 37 miles oneway
  • Paved with a 3 mile section of graded gravel

This route provides some excellent scenery and some nice overlooks, but it is not for those who are afraid of heights. There is a section with 1100 foot drop-offs and a 10% grade. (Vehicles over 10,000 lbs are prohibited.)

  • 1-2 hours
  • 32 mile roundtrip
  • Maintained Dirt or Gravel

Timp and North Timp Points lie at the end of a scenic drive through stately ponderosa pines along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

  • Nine hours to drive (including backtracking) or six days to enjoy the Byway.
  • 480 miles (772 km)

The Trail of the Ancients takes you back to a time long before the United States existed, long before Spaniards came north from what is today Central America. Amazingly, some regions of the Colorado Plateau remain today much as they must have been in the 13th and 14th Centuries. Arid and mostly unin...

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