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101 Things to Do in Tucson SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO TucsoN GUIDE1O1 things to do 2008–2009 AN ECLECTIC GUIDE TO ACTIVITIES & ATTRACTIONS Cover photos (clockwise): Mountain biker courtesy of JW Marriott Starr Pass IN THE Resort & Spa, La Encantada by Robert Garcia, DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun by Jeff Bonner, and desert sunset by Jeff Bonner. TUCSON AREA things to do 1O1 COURTESY OF TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM Editor’s note: Tucson Guide’s “101 Things to Do” are listed in no particular order. All numbers are local calls from Tucson unless an area code is listed. All information given here was accurate at press time. Tucson Children’s Museum {4} CULTURE FOR KIDS Tired of TV? For stimulating entertainment, try the Tucson Children’s Museum. You’ll find one fine exhibit after another in the historic library building, 200 S. 6th Ave. The museum COURTESY OF ROTARY CLUB TUCSON focuses on participatory exhibits and displays geared to learning and exploration. Check out Dinosaur World, the Fire Station, Art Studio, and Ocean Discovery Center. There’s also a museum store filled with toys that are educational as well as fun. Visit www.tucsonchildrensmuseum. org or phone 792-9985. {5} AIR, SPACE & DEFENSE MUSEUMS One of the largest collections of historic aircraft in the US is at the Pima Air & Space Museum, 6000 E. Valencia Rd. Its Space Gallery offers a historical look at space travel, 1 while several hangars house memorabilia, airplanes, and Classics Car Show exhibits. More than 275 aircraft are on display, inside and VINTAGE VEHICLES From poodle skirts and drive-ins to big hair and hot wheels, reminisce out, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. about the good ol’ days at the Rotary Club of Tucson’s 2nd annual Classics Car Show, held on daily. Admission fee. Phone Oct. 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m at St. Gregory College Preparatory School (3231 N. Craycroft Rd.). 574-0462. While you’re It’s a chance to view more than 500 restored Studebakers, GMCs, T-Birds, and Mustangs, and there, stop by the Challenger enjoy food and live entertainment. $5 admission includes a raffle ticket for a 1995 Corvette. Learning Center of the Proceeds benefit Tucson’s Reading Seed program. Call 320-3689 or visit Southwest, where you’ll www.tucsonclassicscarshow.com. find a mission-briefing room, transportation room, mission- control area, and space station. Another sure bet is demonstrations take place and distinctive landscapes—as {2} WOOD YOU the partly underground tour on Oct. 18 and 19. For more movie sets. To learn more BELIEVE? Head on over at the Titan Missile Museum. information, call the gallery to Details Art & Design, 3001 about Tucson-based films, You can see the massive 760- at 577-1995. E. Skyline Dr. #139, for its Oct. casting calls, and screenings, ton rollback silo door, visit woodworking exhibit. Visitors contact the Tucson Film Office the launch-control center, and can admire wood turnings, {3} LIGHTS, CAMERA, (770-2151, www.filmtucson.com). experience a simulated launch. carvings, sculpture, and more. ACTION 3:10 To Yuma, 1957. Visit Old Tucson Studios (201 S. In Sahuarita (take Duval Mine The show, organized by wood Revenge of the Nerds, 1984. Tin Kinney Rd., 883-0100, Rd. west, exit 69, off I-19). turner Lynne Yamaguchi, will Cup, 1996. Traffic, 2000. What www.oldtucson.com) for Phone 625-7736. Take a jaunt include works from do all of these movies (and staged gunfights, musical into southeastern Arizona for Yamaguchi, Bob Rice, 100+ more) have in common? and comedy shows, and to Fort Huachuca’s Main, Annex, Wally Dickerman, and Thomas They all used Tucson and see where Gunfight at the O.K. and US Army Intelligence Wurr, among other Southern Southern Arizona—an area Corral and other Westerns were Museums (520-533-5736). Arizona artists. Artist renowned for its sunny weather filmed. The Main and Annex Museums www.tucsonguidemagazine.com 2008–2009 TUCSON GUIDE [101 THINGS TO DO] TTD 7 things DeGrazia; rotating exhibits to do and a gift shop round out the 1O1 CAROL ZUCKERT mix. The 10-acre site, found on the National Register of explore our military past from Historic Places, is located at 1877 to the present, and the 6300 N. Swan Rd. Phone 299- Intelligence Museum records 9191 or visit www.degrazia.org. Fort Huachuca’s place in the history of US Army {13} ARIVACA WALKING intelligence. Open weekdays TOURS Discover some of the 9 a.m.–4 p.m. and weekends prettiest country in the US and 1–4 p.m. Free admission; the oldest schoolhouse in donations accepted. Arizona. In high desert fewer than 15 miles from Mexico and {6} ALL AFLUTTER Enter 55 miles southwest of Tucson, the exotic world of more than the Arivaca area boasts rich 500 tropical butterflies at 9 grazing lands, and Arivaca Tucson Botanical Gardens’ Museum of Contemporary Art Lake offers great fishing. The exhibit Butterfly Magic at town offers a taste of life in the Gardens. Running Nov. 1 the late 1800s, plus quaint through March 31, the exhibit MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MOCA) Tucson’s shops and galleries. To get features some 50 different foremost contemporary-art institution features several temporary there, take I-19 south to species, including the blue exhibitions annually from local as well as national and international Arivaca Rd. and exit at the morpho butterfly, flown in artists. The museum offers community events, including lectures, small town of Amado. Drive weekly from exotic locales readings, and workshops on topics ranging from architecture and 23 miles on rural, winding such as Costa Rica, Kenya, or collecting art to the relationship between art and science. Museum roads to get to Arivaca. Drive Thailand. Visitors learn about hours change seasonally. Find MOCA on the Plaza at 149 N. Stone the beautiful 10-mile loop each species while strolling Ave., 624-5019, www.moca-tucson.org. through part of the nearby through the 1,000-square-foot 118,000-acre Buenos Aires greenhouse. Open daily 10 National Wildlife Refuge a.m.–3 p.m. Admission fee. For offer a chance for spiritual enjoy the scenic picnic area. (520-823-4251, ext. 116). Find more information, call 326-9686 growth and healing. Located east of Benson, an maps, literature, exhibits, and or visit www.tucsonbotanical.org. Phone 520-720-4016 hour from Tucson, in the knowledgeable staff at the for reservations. The spectacular rock formations visitors center. Call for suggested donation of Texas Canyon. Take I-10 directions. of $45 per person per east to exit 318 (Dragoon night includes three meals. Rd.). Open 10 a.m.–4 p.m. The Santa Rita Abbey near Tues.–Sun. Admission fee, free RESENTS Sonoita also offers retreats, for children 12 and younger. UAP with simple food provided, Phone 520-586-3666 or visit and guests may attend the www.amerind.org. public religious services. For overnight retreats, {11} GATES PASS A phone 520-455-5595 winding uphill drive west COURTESY OF TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS for reservations and on Speedway Blvd. (which K.D. Lang Butterfly Magic at the Gardens suggested donations. 14 becomes Gates Pass Rd.) Situated on 120 acres brings you, at its apex, to UAPRESENTS The bordering Saguaro Gates Pass—and panoramic University of Arizona’s {7} BOYCE THOMPSON National Park West is views of Tucson to the east performing arts series ARBORETUM In 1927, the Redemptorist Renewal and Saguaro National Park to brings leading artists William Boyce Thompson Center. Guests have the west. It’s a perfect setting from around the world established this arboretum access to desert trails 1 for inspiring sunrises, midday to Tucson’s Centennial near Superior (1 ⁄2 hours and Hohokam petroglyphs contemplation, and romantic Hall. The 2008–2009 north of Tucson) to preserve on the property, and a sunsets. (It’s a favorite ride season features more than desert plants and experiment variety of retreats and for bicyclists, too—be aware!) 30 performances, including with their potential as usable programs are available. Paula Poundstone Sept. 5, resources. The arboretum Fees and schedules vary. Legends of Jazz Oct. 19, hosts several events and Phone 520-744-3400 or {12} DEGRAZIA’S and K.D. Lang Nov. 12. Visit tours throughout the year, visit www.desertrenewal.org HAUNT Many works by www.uapresents.org or including guided bird walks. for more info. one of Tucson’s most famous phone 621-3341. Phone 520-689-2811 or visit artists, Ettore “Ted” DeGrazia, http://ag.arizona.edu/bta {10} AMERIND are housed in DeGrazia for a schedule of upcoming FOUNDATION The Gallery in the Sun, a group activities. Amerind Foundation of low-slung adobes set amid {15} ARIZONA- Museum (Amerind is the modern structures of the SONORA DESERT {8} CONTEMPLATIVE short for American Indian) Swan and Sunrise area. Built MUSEUM Wandering RETREATS Escape contains a fine collection by the artist with the help of through this living museum is to the silence and beauty of archaeological and close friends, the compound like taking an enchanted walk of the Benedictine Holy ethnographic materials. The (constructed of materials from through the desert—with no Trinity Monastery, 58 Amerind Art Gallery features the surrounding desert) at fear of snakes or critters. miles southeast of Tucson works by Native American one time served as his home There’s lots of information, in St. David. Individual and Anglo-American artists. and studio. The permanent plenty of shade and water, and group accommodations Visit the museum store and collection includes works by and close-up views of TTD 8 [101 THINGS TO DO] TUCSON GUIDE 2008–2009 www.tucsonguidemagazine.com ROBERT GARCIA Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum bobcats, prairie dogs, coyotes, hawks, Mexican gray wolves, scorpions, rattlesnakes, roadrunners, quail, and more.
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