Roadside Nature Travel Guides describe the wonders of nature that can be experienced just outside your car window along America’s roadways. They recommend the best spots for stopping, getting out of your car, and experiencing the outdoors up close.
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The winding road through Oak Creek Canyon is one of America's most spectacular scenic drives. This is a short drive, but so packed with outdoor recreation opportunities that we created a travel guide for it. Bring your binoculars and hiking boots.
Perhaps the single best route for seeing Arizona’s main life zones—Sonoran Desert, grasslands, pinyon-juniper woodlands, and ponderosa pine forests—and all the wildlife species that call them home. If you have a little extra time we’ll take you to the best hiking and camping spots in the national forests and parks that line this scenic drive.
This is an excellent route for geology enthusiasts who will enjoy the stunning Painted Desert scenery and the variety of volcanic features including maar-diatreme volcanoes, cinder cones, and a very large stratovolcano near Flagstaff. Birding along the Little Colorado River is very good in the Spring and Summer.
Near Sedona, the Verde River and it's surrounding riparian forest and marshes is one of Arizona's top birding locations. Near the midpoint of this scenic routhe, the Black Hills, home to the "living ghost town" of Jerome, are a mineral-rich, forested mountain range with ample hiking and camping opportunities. The trip ends in Prescott Valley in one of the country's best places to see pronghorn antelope at close range.
