From the Farm in Yuma is the place to visit if you’re hankering for a taco, a date shake and an antique lamp. This quirky stop combines a farm stand offering local produce and honey, a charming tearoom, a vintage emporium and an outdoor grill shaded by a corrugated metal roof. With its shabby chic decor and vast mountain views, it’s easy to see why it’s also a popular wedding venue. Tortilla Flat is the launching point for The Dolly Steamboat dinner cruises, a Huckleberry Finn-esque voyage in the desert. As the old-fashioned sternwheeler plies Canyon Lake, keep an eye out for bald eagles and bighorn sheep balancing on the cliffs. Or choose an astronomy dinner cruise and gaze at constellations and planets with astronomer Steve “Dr. Sky” Kates. The Dolly Steamboat, Tortilla Flat Big Nose Kate’s Saloon, Tombstone At Big Nose Kate’s Saloon in Tombstone, history buffs can belly up to the bar where the Earps and Doc Holliday knocked back whiskeys. That long wooden bar is one of the only things left from the original build-ing, the sumptuous Grand Hotel, which hosted many of this Wild West town’s most famous gunfighters before it burned down in 1882. The current saloon—named after the brothel madame who was Holliday’s longtime companion—keeps that cowboy spirit alive. The Palace Restaurant and Saloon, Prescott 36 VISITARIZONA.COM TOP TO BOTTOM: AOT; AN T. PHAM PHOTOGRAPHY; THE PALACE RESTAURANT AND SALOON A bar with a curiously similar history is The Palace Restaurant and Saloon in Prescott— Arizona’s oldest frontier saloon. The Earp brothers and Doc Holliday also drank at this Whiskey Row watering hole. This 1877 saloon was also destroyed in a fire. And the wooden bar was also salvaged from the burning building, when patrons carried it across the street. People do say that in a fire you save the thing most dear to you, and it’s a good thing they did.
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