Tucson Travel Information Featured on USATravelPal.com

USATravelPal.com, a comprehensive travel website in progress, provides comprehensive travel information on over 1500 exciting destinations throughout the United States, including 11 in Tucson, Arizona. Tucson, the second largest city in the state, is located near the Mexican border and thus boasts a wide variety of Mexican culture. Fun places to go in Tucson include the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM), the Arizona State Museum (ASM), Barrio, El Presidio, the J. Knox Corbett House, Mount Lemmon, the Old Tucson Studios, the San Xavier del Bac Mission, the St. Augustine Cathedral, and the Tucson Museum of Art.

The widely-popular Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM) features a zoo exhibiting some rare desert animals as well as a natural history museum and a beautiful botanical garden. The museum has 21 acres of land set aside for some 300 species of wild animals as well as thousands of species of rare desert plants. ASDM also has a widely-acclaimed research center and a gift shop.

Another great place to visit in Tucson is the Arizona State Museum (ASM), the largest anthropology museum in the Southwest. This museum features a conservation laboratory, some 20,000 clay pots dating from as early as 2000 years ago, some 350,000 old photographs of the region, and a collection of over 3500 vertibrate skeletons.

Western afficianados will love Old Tuscon Studios, the setting used for several old Western films, including El Dorado, Rio Bravo, McClintock, Gunfight at the OK Coral, and The Three Amigos. The studio was built in 1939 and is spread over 320 acres. Besides touring the studios, visitors can enjoy Western dances and music as well as live gun fights and other stunt shows. There are also plenty of shops and restaurants.