Winslow, Arizona
This charming
railroad town in the high desert of the Little Colorado River Valley
offers a wide variety of attractions from rock art to climbing, cowboy
to Native American cultures, rodeos to antique car shows, and "Standin'
On The Corner Park" in historic downtown on Route 66. The
Old Trails Historical Museum in a 1920 bank building exhibits showcase
Route 66, Santa Fe Railroad, pioneer and Anasazi artifacts.
Nearby Clear Creek offers canoeing, swimming, picnicking and
fishing. Homolovi Ruins State Park preserves petroglyphs and 4
major pueblo sites occupied by Hopi Indian ancestors between about
1200 and 1425 AD. Meteor Crater allows visitors to tour the rim
of a 700-foot-deep pit blasted when a meteor weighing several hundred
thousand tons slammed into this rocky plain 50,000 years ago.
The visitor center and museum house interactive displays, an Apollo
Space Capsule, and the Astronaut Hall of Fame.
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