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Hoover Dam from Phoenix: A Realistic Day-Trip Plan
Hoover Dam from Phoenix is a long day — about 9 hours of driving for 3 hours on-site. Here's how to make it worth the trip (and when to skip it).
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Day Trips from Phoenix
Phoenix sits inside one of the most varied travel radiuses in the country. In two hours or less you can stand under red-rock spires, drift down a desert river, or sip coffee in a former mining town. This is our living guide to the Valley's best day trips, vetted on the road.
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Goldfield Ghost Town: A Half-Day Trip From Phoenix That Actually Delivers
It's part theme park, part real history — and once you accept that, Goldfield is one of the most enjoyable half-day trips from Phoenix.
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Cave Creek & Carefree: The Quirky Phoenix Day Trip That Actually Delivers
Cave Creek is the Phoenix metro's holdout Western town — saloons, motorcycles, art galleries, and the start of some of the best desert trails in the Valley. Carefree, next door, is its sundrenched twin.
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Superstition Mountains: A Real Day Trip from Phoenix
The Superstitions are the most cinematic mountains in the Phoenix metro area — and 40 minutes from downtown. Here's how to do them as a real day, not a windshield tour.
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The Perfect Sedona Day Trip: A 12-Hour Itinerary That Actually Works
If you only have one day in Sedona, this itinerary will give you the best of the red rocks without the parking nightmares or the tourist-trap meals. I've done this exact loop dozens of times.
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Jerome, Arizona: A Complete Day Trip Guide to the Cliffside Ghost Town
Jerome was once the richest copper-mining town in the territory. Today it's a working artists' community of about 450 people clinging to the side of Cleopatra Hill. Here's how to spend a perfect day there.
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The 15 Best Day Trips from Phoenix (Tested, Rated & Ranked)
Phoenix has one of the most generous travel radiuses in the country. In under two hours you can be in red rock country, a pine forest, or a former copper-mining town. After years of running these routes, here are the 15 day trips I actually do — and the ones I quietly stopped recommending.
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