TUCSON & SOUTHERN ARIZONA ADVENTURES FOR Curious Kids Tour the Pima Air & Space Museum to see nearly 400 aircraft. The aerospace museum features six hangars, an 80-acre airfield and thousands of artifacts that will take your family through the history of aviation, from commercial airliners to military aircraft dating back to World War II. The exhibits at Children’s Museum Tucson revolve around imaginative play. Kids will love the diverse hands-on activities and displays. Examine larger-than-life body parts at Calling all future pilots, zoologists, architects, doctors and scientists! Tucson is teeming with kid-friendly attractions that will spark any little one’s imagination and creativity. The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures, Tucson Bodyology. Get scientific with the interactive experiments of Gravity and the Investigation Station. Let your imagination run wild with the arts, crafts and tools of Imagine It! Climb aboard a fire engine, ambulance and police motorcycle at the Public Safety exhibit. Then, learn how to care for your family pet in the Pet Vet exhibit. Browse over 500 antique dollhouses and miniatures at The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures . This unique museum houses recreated bookshops, antique stores, colonial rooms and hundreds of other detailed collections and dioramas from skilled miniaturists. Go on safari at Reid Park Zoo . Elephants, grizzly bears, giraffes, jaguars and hundreds of other animals await you at this 24-acre attraction. Consider booking a behind-the-scenes experience where your family can choose one of six private experiences, including the Giraffe Encounter, the Animal Ambassadors Experience or the Aldabra Tortoise Experience. NATURALLY INCREDIBLE PLACES From pipe-like cactuses to a cave filled with one of the world’s longest stalactites, natural wonders abound here. At Chiricahua National Monument , discover rhyolite rock pinnacles, balanced rocks, columns and other rock formations formed by a volcanic eruption millions of years ago. Hiking is the best way to see these geological phenomena, but you also can appreciate them on a scenic drive. Kartchner Caverns State Park near Benson ranks among the most beautiful living caves in the world. On a tour, you’ll pass one of the longest soda straw stalactites in existence, the world’s most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk, the tallest column in Arizona and other incredible displays. Just 15 miles southeast of Tucson, Colossal Cave Mountain Park offers a family-friendly tour of its caverns six stories underground, where you’ll learn about the cave’s geology, wildlife and legends. A more adventurous tour takes visitors through tight passages and across rock bridges. Cactuses flourish in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument , the only place you can see large stands of organ pipe cactuses in the United States. Visit in the spring when gold poppies, blue lupines, pink owl clover and other annuals bloom or in the summer when the park’s 31 species of cactuses bloom, both day and night. Chiricahua National Monument, Willcox 52 VISITARIZONA.COM TOP TO BOTTOM: THE MINI TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES ; ADRIENNE MCLEOD
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