What you can see on GREEN VALLEY ARIZONA
Activities around Green Valley Arizona are diversified and year around. Whether your passion is, you’ll discover that Green Valley ARIZONA offers copious amounts of family activities.
ARIVACA SELF-GUIDED TOURS. Discover some of the prettiest country in the U.S. and the oldest schoolhouse in Green Valley Arizona. Located in high desert the Arivaca area boasts rich grazing land and Arivaca Lake offers great fishing. Brochures available at Arivaca town merchants. (25miles SW of Green Valley) 398-2702.
ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM. Living animal and plants of the Sonora Desert region. Many unique exhibits indoor and outdoor. Kinney Rd. north of Old Tucson Studios. Open every day of the year. 8:30-5:00. Admission Fee. (36 miles from Green Valley)
ASARCO MINERAL DISCOVERY CENTER. Discover our award-winning exhibit center, video theater, cactus garden, and picnic area. Free Admission to the Exhibit Center! Experience a tour of the Asarco Mission Mine. Stand at the edge of the open-pit mine, then walk into the mill. Shop at the Company Store gift shop for Southwestern arts & crafts by local artisans, silver, copper and Native American jewelry.
Open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday
Discounts are available for groups and school tours with advance reservations. Hours and rates are subject to change.
Getting There
Take Interstate 19 to Pima Mine Road (exit 80). About 500 feet west of the freeway, turn left through the railroad crossing. Go south to the first right where you’ll see our copper-roofed buildings and the tall wooden tower.
BISBEE. Rustic, charming, turn-of-the-century western town. Home of Lavender Pit Mine. One of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines. (135 miles from Green Valley) 24 miles south of Tombstone on Route 80.
CASA GRANDE RUINS NATIONAL MONUMENT. Ruins of a massive four-story structure built of coarse caliche earth (high lime desert soil) by Indians who farmed in Gila Valley more than 600 years ago. Admission Fee. (100 miles from Green Valley)
CATALINA STATE PARK. Encompasses over 8,000 acres at the base of the northwestern slopes of the Catalina Mts. near Tucson. Picnicking. camping, hiking. and riding trails. Numerous archeological and ecological sites. Located 12 miles north of Tucson on US 89.
CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT. Alive with plants and animals, the monument contains tall, slender pinnacles and other geological oddities carved by nature from volcanic rock. (145 miles SE from Green Valley)
COLOSSAL CAVE. Possibly the world’s largest dry limestone cavern. Open daily, tours begin every few minutes.
Getting There
I-19 north to I-10, east to Vail exit, north to cave. Admission Fee. 520-647-7275.
DAVIS MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE. Contains the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center, filled with hundreds of old planes. Call for tour times.
Getting There
Take any major east-west Tucson street to Craycroft. South on Craycroft to the base. 520-228-4570.
That was a little mind-picture of Green Valley Arizona, hope you will visit it soon and share your reviews with us.
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