Best Of Tucson®

Best Recreation Area in Southern Arizona

Sabino Canyon

A good, stiff 1960s-style cocktail is often followed by a water chaser. The water is what goes down smoothly at Sabino Canyon. Find yourself in the soul-quenching abundance of it during the monsoon season. Enjoy the cool carving of Sabino's stream, and the way it pools up generously behind a manmade dam, or flows beneath your feet as you walk over sometimes-shady bridges to one of the 89 picnic sites. It's the water that provides the lush flora with its life-giving refreshment. Take your shoes off, and let your city feet drink it all in.

Runners up:

2. Mount Lemmon

www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/forest/recreation/trails/mt_lemmon.shtml

3. Madera Canyon

www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/forest/recreation/camping/sites/madera.shtml