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Arizona Travel Destination #1:

Tucson, Arizona is the home of the White Stallion Ranch. Here, in the beautiful Tucson Mountains, the family can experience the rugged outdoors while enjoying the comforts of a resort style vacation.

At the White Stallion Ranch you can participate in real working ranch activities. Horseback riding is the mainstay and there is a wide variety of riding available for all skill levels. Even slow rides for kids as young as five.

Other fun stuff include guided hikes, campfire sing-alongs, evening Wild West show, team cattle penning, hayrides, cookouts, barbeques and the traditional Saturday rodeo.

The White Stallion Ranch focuses on families and has a petting zoo, game room and a sports court and plenty of activities geared towards the children.

Arizona Travel Destination #2:
The Coronado Trail Scenic Byway is a great place for a scenic road trip. About 450 years ago the explorer Coronado took this same route searching for the fabled for the "Seven Cities of Cibola".

Today this 120 mile scenic drive is an excellent way to view all the beautiful Arizona landscapes. There are lots of places to stop along the way. The path runs next to Apache Sitgreaves National Forest where you can camp and fish.

About mid-point is the the Blue Vista Overlook and Mogollon Rim. These are two popular spots provide excellent views overlooking the Arizona desert.

In the fall, the small community of Nutrioso is a great spot to view the wonderful array of colors as the forest trees shed their leaves for the season. The Coronado Trail Scenic Byway will give you plenty of opportunity to for nature photography.

Arizona Travel Destination #3:
Coconino National Forest, in Arizona, is a great place to go four-wheeling on your next vacation. Right across the street from Coconino National Forest is Quadmanor where you can rent a 3 bedroom cabin for your vacation stay.

They've got 4 wheel ATVs available and there are plenty of scenic trails and forestry roads to go riding on. Quadmanor has everything the family will need including cable television, DVD and VCR and high speed internet along with a computer.

The quads or a Yamaha Rhino are also included. This is a great spot for an outdoor family adventure vacation.

Arizona Travel Destination #4:
At the Arizona Cowboy College, you can spend a week fulfilling that childhood dream of being a cowboy. The Cowboy College is a working cattle ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona.

On your cowboy vacation adventure you will spend the first two days learning the skills that every cowboy needs to know like riding, roping and equine safety. You will learn how to handle your horse. Then the next four days will be spent out working alongside real cowboys.

You will be eating, working and camping out on the open range. If this sounds like your idea of fun then head out to the Arizona Cowboy College.

Arizona Travel Destination #5:
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, in Tucson, is a wide-open wildlife park. This world-renowned zoo focuses on creatures indigenous to the Southwestern lands and presents them in their native habitat.

You will see everything from black bears and mountain lions to Gila monsters and tarantulas, as well as over 10,000 species of fish. There are 2 miles of trails through their botanical gardens and displays of Sonora plant life like native wildflowers, woods of pine and oak, grasslands and red rock canyon landscaping.

The Cactus Garden has over 140 species of desert plants. This Arizona vacation spot is so much more than just a museum.

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