Photo: A stretch of Route 60
Route 60 is an obscure road that travels coast to coast, sometimes by its rightful designation, sometimes absorbed into newer highways. It runs roughly parallel to the better-known Route 66, but its vital signs are much stronger.
Read the articleDestinations: Arizona · New Mexico · Tucson · The Tucson Area · Pie Town
Themes: Road Trip · Adventure Vacations
Inspired by: A Route 60 Tour of New Mexico and Arizona — by Thomas Beller, Published Mar. 2008
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The Apache Trail is a 40-mile route that curves east from Phoenix past towering saguaros. At its end lies the Noftsger Hill Inn Bed & Breakfast, a
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Just north of the university, 14 sublimely private and controlled acres deploy a succession of gardens crazed with flowers and trees, separated by
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This Pie Town establishment sells butterscotch, dutch apple crumb, New Mexico apple, cherry, peach, blueberry, (and on weekends:) banana cream, coc
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The diminutive pie shop is one of the prizes of Pie Town.
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Take a self-guided walking tour of the magnificent Very Large Array, a massive collection of 27 neatly arranged 80-foot-tall radio-telescope antenn
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This is one of the prime spots in Arizona to witness the Desert in Bloom—a spectacular, acres-encompassing display of blossoming Indian paintbrush
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The center consists of a gallery, music studios, crafts studios, and a community theater that recently staged the locally written production of Jus
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Eight miles off Interstate 25, Bosque del Apache is an oasis of dirt roads, meadows, and marshes.
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Blue Canyon Gallery is the first place you reach driving into Magdalena from Socorro—the gallery, a house, and a kiln. In the shop one finds potter
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Phoenix, Tucson, Tempe
Who needs groundhogs and robins to tell you that winter is almost over when you’ve got Pitchers and Catchers—the day the first baseball players report to camp to get ready for the season ahead? For
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Arizona, Tucson, The Tucson Area
Heading south from Phoenix brings you from barrel-cactus-dotted desert through the Oregon-like woods of Madera Canyon—and down to the Mexican border town of Tubac.
Tucson, Big Sky, Bozeman, Whitefish, Dubois
Who wouldn't leap at the chance to wear a cowboy hat and boots, swagger across a dusty corral, and tell an 800-pound horse where to go? There are hundreds of ranches around the country—some are wor...
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