Best Time Spent Underground [1]: Enter the otherworldly caves at Kartchner Caverns State Park [1], which are still being formed by slowly dripping water and are home to bats and hanging multicolored formations.
Best Sweeping View of the Borderlands [2]: Along the U.S.-Mexico border at Coronado National Memorial [2] you can stand on a scenic overlook with expansive, windswept views of the San Pedro and San Rafael Valleys, all the way to Mexico.
Best Day Trip Turned Overnighter [3]: Explore Bisbee [3], a quaint old mining boomtown that’s now an enclave for artists, antiques shops, and several boutique hotels.
Best Native American Museum [4]: Discover Native American cultures from prehistory all the way to the Chiricahua Apache and beyond at the Amerind Foundation Museum [4], one of the finest private ethnological collections in the nation.
Best Photo Opportunity in Southern Arizona [5]: Make sure to get a photo of the magnificent forest of hoodoos and twisted rock high in the evergreen mountains at Chiricahua National Monument [5].
Links:
[1] http://www.moon.com/destinations/tucson/excursions-tucson/kartchner-caverns-and-the-huachuca-mountains/sights/kartchner-caverns-state-park
[2] http://www.moon.com/destinations/tucson/excursions-tucson/kartchner-caverns-and-the-huachuca-mountains/sights/coronado-national-memorial
[3] http://www.moon.com/destinations/tucson/excursions-tucson/bisbee-and-tombstone/bisbee
[4] http://www.moon.com/destinations/tucson/excursions-tucson/willcox-and-the-chiricahua-mountains/sights/amerind-foundation-museum
[5] http://www.moon.com/destinations/tucson/excursions-tucson/willcox-and-the-chiricahua-mountains/sights/chiricahua-national-monument