Priscila & Nick
Things To Do in Tucson
Baja Cafe on Campbell
Hands down, our favorite breakfast place in the entire world. Cheap menu and the food is amazing. Priscila's favorite is the Snickerdoodle Pancake and Nick's is the chocolate chip. Don't forget the Prickly Pear Margarita!
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Basically a desert zoo, this is a must-see in Tucson. It is all outside though, and that's dangerous in August so make sure you go very early in the morning.
BK Carne Asada & Hot Dogs 12th Ave
Our favorite place to get Mexican food in Tucson, and THE place to get a Sonoran Hot Dog! Rumor is they also have the best Michelada's in town...
Sentinel Peak
A very short drive from downtown gets you to the highest peak in-town. Called "A Mountain" by the locals, this place will get you the best view of all of Tucson.
Mount Lemmon
The best way to escape the heat, Mount Lemmon is approximately 30 degrees cooler than nearby Tucson, which is only about one hour away. Located in the Santa Catalina Range, Mount Lemmon is surrounded by the Coronado National Forest and home to a town befitting of the name, Summerhaven. Explore various trails, eat homemade fudge, and even rent a cabin for a weekend away in the pines. On your way to the Mount Lemmon's Peak, you'll drive along the 27-mile sky islands scenic byway, which is more than just a way to get to the top.
Oasis Fruit Raspados
Tucson and Raspados go hand-in-hand. This delicious concoction is made up of shaved ice, natural syrup fresh fruit, ice cream, and lechera. Please do not leave Tucson without trying one of these! Our favorite is strawberry with vanilla ice cream and lechera.
Sabino Canyon
Sabino Canyon, located on the northeastern edge of Tucson as part of Coronado National Forest, is one of the city’s most popular hiking destinations. This comes as no surprise given the canyon’s diverse hiking opportunities, convenient location, and gorgeous scenery, not to mention the spectacular views of Tucson’s sunsets. It is a must see for both Tucson tourists and locals! We like to just take the guided tour bus up and down.
Pima Air And Space Museum
Requires some outdoor walking around but for the most part a good way to escape the heat. 360+ aircraft, 80 acres, 6 indoor air-cooled hangars. It's one of the world's largest aircraft collections including 3 hangars of WWII planes, the SR-71, the world's smallest biplane, and many other unique private, military, and commercial air & spacecraft documenting the evolution of flight. They give the only tour of the "Boneyard"/AMARG (M-F, no holidays, 16-day advanced reservations required) plus a tram tour of the museum's 80 acres and one-of-a-kind planes. You can actually touch aviation history like "Freedom One" (that flew American hostages home after 444 days in Iran), presidential crafts, planes that launched astronauts, others with wingspans the length of a football field... ogle helicopters, MiGs, an Oscar, a rare German buzz bomb, a moon rock, and much more!
Mission San Xavier del Bac
A National Historic Landmark, San Xavier Mission was founded as a Catholic mission by Father Eusebio Kino in 1692. Construction of the current church began in 1783 and was completed in 1797. The oldest intact European structure in Arizona, the church's interior is filled with marvelous original statuary and mural paintings. It is a place where visitors can truly step back in time and enter an authentic 18th Century space. The church retains its original purpose of ministering to the religious needs of its parishioners.
Colossal Cave Mountain Park
A great way to escape the heat. It's always perfect weather for touring Colossal Cave, just twenty two miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. One of the largest dry caves in North America, it maintains a pleasant seventy degrees Fahrenheit temperature year-around. Located in the Rincon Mountains at an elevation of three thousand seven hundred feet, the entrance commands a panoramic view of the Sonoran Desert. Colossal Cave Mountain Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today visitors take a fifty-minute, one-half mile guided tour down six stories into Colossal Cave to see the beautiful formations. Tours leave from the gift shop at the entrance. Deep inside the cave, tour guides explain how the cave formed, point out the beautiful formations, and tell the "Bandit Legend," the favorite part of the tour for many guests. According to the legend, the cavern served as a bandit hideout twice in 1887, after two exciting train robberies.