Southwest Adventure Series

Florence Historic Home & Building Tour February 8, 2025 $99 Travel more than 150 years back in time on the 49th Annual Florence Historic Home & Building Tour—an exciting opportunity to explore one of Arizona’s oldest towns. Established in 1866, Florence played an important role as a regional administrative center for all federal [...]

Tortilla Flat & the Dolly Steamboat Cruise February 12, 2025 $130 Nestled in the Tonto National Forest, in the Superstition Mountain Range, Tortilla Flat is an authentic old west town. Founded in 1904 as a stagecoach stop, this fantastic destination is just a hop-skip-and-a-jump away, on the historic Apache Trail. We’ll arrive early [...]

Kartchner Caverns - EAST February 25, 2025 $138 In November 1974, Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts were exploring the limestone hills at the eastern base of the Whetstone Mountains. They were looking “for a cave no one had ever found” and found it. The two kept the cave a secret until February 1978 [...]

Kartchner Caverns - WEST February 26, 2025 $138 In November 1974, Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts were exploring the limestone hills at the eastern base of the Whetstone Mountains. They were looking “for a cave no one had ever found” and found it. The two kept the cave a secret until February 1978 [...]

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum March 14, 2025 $138 Turn your idea of a museum INSIDE OUT! The Sonora Desert  Museum is a fusion experience—zoo, botanical garden, art gallery, natural history museum, and aquarium. Since the Desert  Museum opened its doors, it has worked to protect the natural systems of the Sonoran Desert of [...]

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument March 21, 2025 $125 Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument holds an extraordinary collection of plants, wildlife, and geologic wonders of the Sonoran Desert. The monument offers protection and sanctuary for many rare species that are not found elsewhere. Over thousands of years, the plants and wildlife of this [...]

An Afternoon in Jerome April 4, 2025 $115 Once known as the Wickedest Town in the West, Jerome sits near the top of Cleopatra Hill between Prescott and Flagstaff. Founded in 1877, Jerome grew from a tent settlement to a robust mining community—the fourth largest city in Arizona, with a population that peaked [...]

Springtime on the Verde Canyon Railroad April 7, 2025 $260 The Verde Canyon Railroad offers us a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the beauty of Verde Canyon from the comfort of a fully restored, slow-rolling vintage FP7 locomotive—one of only 10 remaining in North America. This four-hour excursion takes us on a 20-mile journey [...]

The Chiricahuas A Wonderland of Rocks! April 9, 2025 $162 In the far southeastern corner of Arizona are the impressive Chiricahua Mountains, one of several sky island mountain ranges surrounded by expansive desert grasslands. The Chiricahua Mountains are an inactive volcanic range twenty miles wide and forty miles long. It forms part of [...]

Desert to Tall Pines & Bruzzi Vineyard April 15, 2025 $140 Join us for an incredible springtime ride on the seventy-six-mile Desert to Tall Pines Scenic Byway, following Highway 288 from Globe to the tiny town of Young, Arizona. This area, known by cowboys as “the high lonesome,” was made famous by the [...]

The Old Rim Road Scenic Drive - EAST April 22, 2025 $115 We’re off to explore Arizona’s Forest Road 300—The Old Rim Road. Our journey kicks off in Payson, where we’ll enjoy some fantastic Mexican food, on self, at El Rancho Mexican Restaurant—a great favorite, not only with the locals, but also with [...]

The Old Rim Road Scenic Drive - WEST April 24, 2025 $115 We’re off to explore Arizona’s Forest Road 300—The Old Rim Road. Our journey kicks off in Payson, where we’ll enjoy some fantastic Mexican food, on self, at El Rancho Mexican Restaurant—a great favorite, not only with the locals, but also with [...]