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Trail Dust Town

Trail Dust Town

2.46km from Fort Lowell Museum

Trail Dust Town is a historical outdoor shopping center located in Tucson, Arizona. on its grounds exists a great number of historical artifacts, including an Allan Herschell merry-go-round which was manufactured in 1954 that still contains its original horses and benches.

Tucson Botanical Gardens

Tucson Botanical Gardens

3.43km from Fort Lowell Museum

The Tucson Botanical Gardens is a 5.5-acre collection of sixteen residentially scaled urban gardens in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Paths connect these gardens, which include a Zen Garden, a Prehistoric Garden, a Barrio Garden, a Butterfly Garden, a Xeriscape Garden, and a Children’s Garden.

Reid Park Zoo

Reid Park Zoo

7.03km from Fort Lowell Museum

The Reid Park Zoo, founded in 1967, is a 24-acre (9.7 ha) city-owned and operated non-profit zoo located within Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona. The zoo features more than 500 animals. Reid Park Zoo consists of four zones that are organized by the types of habitats and animals they house.

DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun

DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun

7.1km from Fort Lowell Museum

DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun Historic District is the artistic manifestation and architecture constructed by Ettore DeGrazia. The property is a series of buildings scattered throughout a natural desert setting. Built in Tucson near the intersection of Swan Road and Skyline the property is now a museum open to the public.

Sabino Canyon Recreation Area

Sabino Canyon Recreation Area

7.37km from Fort Lowell Museum

Sabino Canyon is a significant canyon located in the Santa Catalina Mountains and the Coronado National Forest north of Tucson, Arizona. It is a popular recreation area for residents and visitors of Southern Arizona, providing a place to walk, hike or ride. Minutes away from the desert are large waterfalls along Sabino Creek with minor bridges constructed over them. Wildlife in the canyon includes deer, javelina, skunks, tortoises, rattlesnakes, and mountain lions.

Center for Creative Photography

Center for Creative Photography

8.01km from Fort Lowell Museum

The Center for Creative Photography established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American photographers. , as well as a collection of over 80,000 images representing more than 2,000 photographers. The CCP collects, preserves, interprets, and makes available materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history.

Arizona State Museum

Arizona State Museum

8.19km from Fort Lowell Museum

The Arizona State Museum, founded in 1893, was originally a repository for the collection and protection of archaeological resources. Today, however, ASM stores artifacts exhibits them and provides education and research opportunities. It was formed by the authority of the Arizona Territorial Legislature. The museum is operated by the University of Arizona and is located on the university campus in Tucson.

Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum

Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum

10.08km from Fort Lowell Museum

Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón was a presidio located within Tucson, Arizona. The original fortress was built by Spanish soldiers during the 18th century and was the founding structure of what became the city of Tucson. After the American arrival in 1856, the original walls were dismantled, with the last section torn down in 1918.

St. Augustine Cathedral Church

St. Augustine Cathedral Church

10.14km from Fort Lowell Museum

The Cathedral of Saint Augustine is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson. It is located in Tucson, Arizona. The cathedral features an elaborate cast stone façade with the coat of arms of Pope Pius XI, who was the pope at the time of the building's construction.

Tucson Museum of Art, east entrance

Tucson Museum of Art, east entrance

10.23km from Fort Lowell Museum

The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block is an art museum and art education institution located in the Presidio District of downtown Tucson, Arizona. The museum comprises 74,000-square-feet of exhibition space over a four-acre city block that includes a contemporary main museum and 19th C. historic homes that have been adapted for reuse as the Museum restaurant, pottery school, and galleries.

Kino Sports Complex

Kino Sports Complex

11.02km from Fort Lowell Museum

Kino Sports Complex is a multiple-use sports complex in Tucson, Arizona. The Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago White Sox formerly utilized the complex's main ballpark, Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, for Cactus League games each March and had their minor league complexes on-site. It is also used to host soccer matches. FC Tucson of USL League One plays its home matches at the complex's North Stadium, its primary soccer stadium.

Sentinel Peak

Sentinel Peak

12.35km from Fort Lowell Museum

Sentinel Peak is a 2,897 ft peak in the Tucson Mountains southwest of downtown Tucson, Arizona. The valley's first inhabitants grew crops at the mountain's base, along the Santa Cruz River. The peak is part of a 272-acre park, the largest natural resource park in the City of Tucson.

Pusch Ridge Wilderness

Pusch Ridge Wilderness

13.07km from Fort Lowell Museum

Pusch Ridge Wilderness Area is a 56,430 acre wilderness area. It is located within the Coronado National Forest in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona, United States. Established in 1978, the area varies greatly in elevation and biodiversity, rising from 2,800 feet to over 9,100 feet in elevation.

Pima Air & Space Museum

Pima Air & Space Museum

13.36km from Fort Lowell Museum

The Pima Air & Space Museum, located in Tucson, Arizona, is one of the world's largest non-government funded aerospace museums. The museum features a display of nearly 300 aircraft spread out over 80 acres on a campus occupying 127 acres. It has also been the home to the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame since 1991.

Tohono Chul

Tohono Chul

13.39km from Fort Lowell Museum

A botanical garden, nature preserve and cultural museum located in Casas Adobes, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona. The mission of Tohono Chul is to connect people with the wonders of nature, art and culture in the Sonoran Desert region and inspiring wise stewardship of the natural world.

Catalina State Park

Catalina State Park

19.93km from Fort Lowell Museum

Catalina State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, that is adjacent to Coronado National Forest on the western slopes of the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson.

Mission San Xavier del Bac

Mission San Xavier del Bac

21.09km from Fort Lowell Museum

This is a historic Spanish Catholic mission that was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino. A historical church with importance in the history of US. It is now one of the famous tourist attractions in the Pima county.

Mt. Lemmon Sky Center Observatory

Mt. Lemmon Sky Center Observatory

21.72km from Fort Lowell Museum

Also known as the Mount Lemmon Infrared Observatory, is an astronomical observatory located on Mount Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains approximately 28 kilometers northeast of Tucson, Arizona . The site in the Coronado National Forest is used with special permission from the U.S. Forest Service by the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, and contains a number of independently managed telescopes.

Mount Lemmon

Mount Lemmon

21.99km from Fort Lowell Museum

It is the highest point in the Santa Catalina Mountains. It is located in the Coronado National Forest north of Tucson, Arizona, United States. Mount Lemmon was named for botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon, who trekked to the top of the mountain with her husband and E. O. Stratton, a local rancher, by horse and foot in 1881.

Mt Lemmon Ski Valley

Mt Lemmon Ski Valley

22.64km from Fort Lowell Museum

Mount Lemmon Ski Valley is a recreational ski area in the U.S. state of Arizona, and the southernmost ski destination in the continental United States. Mount Lemmon Ski Valley is located on the slopes of Mount Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains just north of Tucson, Arizona. It is part of the Coronado National Forest, located near the mountaintop village of Summerhaven.

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Fort Lowell Museum

2900 N Craycroft Rd, Tucson, AZ 85712, USA

Fort Lowell was a United States Army post active from 1873 to 1891 on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona. Fort Lowell was the successor to Camp Lowell, an earlier Army installation. The Army claimed a military reservation that encompassed approximately eighty square miles and extended east toward the Rincon Mountains.