Posted: 9/16/2009 4:56:19 PM EDT
| Any ideas of what to do in early October in Tucson. I think the wife and I are coming out that way to visit Kitt observatory and I was wondering if anyone had other things to do or could recommend a nice place to stay for around 150-200 a night. |
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How long will you be there? Drive down to Tombstone and/or Bisbee if you've got time. Bisbee is cool, the Pima air museum is cool too. Saguaro national park on the NE side of town is beautiful. I spent a week in Tucson last Christmas and the best time I had was walking around out in the desert looking at the wildlife; its so different from what we have back east. |
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sabino canyon tram ride/ hike to seven falls Oh yeah, that. I did that I think 12/31 last year, it was beautiful. (It was also 80 degrees! I went home the next day and a few weeks later it was -20 for a few days. The hundred degree spread from vacation to home is a real bitch) |
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Get a motorcycle if you really want to experience Kitt Peak, Mt. Lemmon or Arivaca Road. They will curl your toes.
Kitt Peak Mt. Lemmon Arivaca Road |
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If you like hummingbirds, go to the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.
http://www.desertmuseum.org/ Bring your camera! |
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If you are there during the first 2 weeks of Nov make sure you go to the All Souls Procession!
whatever else you do, don't abandon your friend or mate after coming out of a bar. Go hiking, you wont regret it! Oh and go shooting also! Pima Air and Space Museum!!!! |
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MAGPIES PIZZA !!!! Oh how I miss it. Saguaro Nat'l Monuments east and west. Desert Museum.... Mt. Lemmon is a must, even if you just drive up take a picture and drive down. yeah and how about Brooklyn Pizza Co.? they deliver pie, wine, beer and cigs too. |
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Definitely go to Bisbee, have lunch at the Copper Queen, hit Tombstone on the way back to Tucson.
Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Az 
Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone, Az 
View from near the top of Mt Lemon, just outside Tucson 
Some wild fire damage on Mt Lemon 
I have a brother that lives in Tucson, actually just outside town. Here's his back "yard". 
And my old dorm room.. 
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MAGPIES PIZZA !!!! Oh how I miss it. +1 on Magpies Also Sausage Deli on the corner of 1st ave & Grant ...but I have to say Eegees ftw! |
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MAGPIES PIZZA !!!! Oh how I miss it. +1 on Magpies Also Sausage Deli on the corner of 1st ave & Grant ...but I have to say Eegees ftw! Awww, Sausage Deli rocks!!! Good Italian grinder.....lemonade etc. just not open on Sundays if I recall correctly. |
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MAGPIES PIZZA !!!! Oh how I miss it. +1 on Magpies Also Sausage Deli on the corner of 1st ave & Grant ...but I have to say Eegees ftw! Awww, Sausage Deli rocks!!! Good Italian grinder.....lemonade etc. just not open on Sundays if I recall correctly. They close at 4 pm on saturday, which is weird. I lived in the house directly behind Sausage Deli for six years. The quail hunting is pretty good, a 3-day out of state permit is $60. And you can always go shooting at Redington Pass to the NE of Tucson. On Speedway, East of Roger, there is a roadside mexican food place (Karmelo King). They cook everything on an open mesquite fire, and it is the best mexican food I've ever tasted. It's open in the evenings on friday and saturday in the parking lot of Sparkle Car Wash. |
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hmmm, I was up there at the old radar site by the telescopes a few years back. Interesting stuff up there but I was never told about a silo. They may have filled it in but I know there was one there...somewhere. I don't think it was well publicized as the Mount was kind of a tourist area - especially in the winter. |
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sabino canyon tram ride/ hike to seven falls Oh yeah, that. I did that I think 12/31 last year, it was beautiful. (It was also 80 degrees! I went home the next day and a few weeks later it was -20 for a few days. The hundred degree spread from vacation to home is a real bitch) Take the tram up, walk down. |
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Definitely go up mount lemmon, it's a mind-trip to go from scrubby desert to a full blown ponderosa forest in 30 minutes.
A Very VERY nice place is the Arizona Inn. This place is in the middle of tucson, but when you are on the grounds of the hotel, you feel like you are on a freakin island.. It's so quiet, and nice, the rooms are excellent. Even if you don't stay there, I would stop by and have lunch by on of their pools, it's a great place. 
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