Tucson Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Arizona Stadium

  Casino Del Sol Stadium, known as Arizona Stadium until 2025, is the University of Arizona's football bowl in central Tucson. This is the home field of the Arizona Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference.

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  Hi Corbett Field

  Baseball has been played here since 1937, when Hi Corbett Field was still Randolph Municipal Baseball Park. This ballpark seats approximately 9,500 and has hosted spring training for the Colorado Rockies and the Cleveland Indians; today it is home to the University of Arizona Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference.

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  Steward Observatory

  Since 1916 Steward Observatory has served as the research arm of the University of Arizona's Department of Astronomy. Its offices sit here on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson.

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  Old Main, University of Arizona

  Construction on Old Main, the first building on the University of Arizona campus, began on October 27, 1887. This was the first building constructed on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson and is one of the oldest surviving educational structures in the western United States.

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  Arizona Inn

  Isabella Greenway built this Tucson hotel, the Arizona Inn, in 1930–31. Built in 1930–31 by Isabella Greenway — who became Arizona's first female representative to the U.S. Congress in 1932 — the property centers on a Spanish Colonial Revival main building designed by Tucson architect Merritt Starkweather.

All 21 stops

• University of Arizona Mineral Museum (downtown Tucson)

  Picture more than 24,000 mineral specimens gathered right here inside the Pima County Courthouse in downtown Tucson, Arizona.

• Barrio San Antonio (Barrio San Antonio)

  Picture the barrio named for San Antonio, Anthony of Padua, right here east of downtown Tucson.

• Rincon Heights Historic District (Rincon Heights)

  Rincon Heights Historic District in Tucson won its National Historic District listing in February 2013.

• Himmel Park (central Tucson)

  Himmel Park spreads 24.3 acres of central Tucson in front of you, from Tucson Boulevard east to Treat Avenue.

• Tucson Botanical Gardens (Tucson)

  Twenty gardens fill 5.5 acres here at the Tucson Botanical Gardens, in the heart of Tucson, Arizona.

• Arizona Inn (Tucson)

  Isabella Greenway built this Tucson hotel, the Arizona Inn, in 1930–31.

• Ball-Paylore House (Tucson)

  Two University of Arizona librarians commissioned the Ball-Paylore House, designed by architect Arthur T. Brown, FAIA, and completed in 1952.

• Gene C. Reid Park (central Tucson)

  Ponds, playgrounds and a zoo fill Gene C. Reid Park's 131 acres in central Tucson.

• Reid Park Zoo (Reid Park)

  Inside Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona, the Reid Park Zoo cares for more than 500 animals across 24 acres.

• Hi Corbett Field (Gene C. Reid Park)

  Baseball has been played here since 1937, when Hi Corbett Field was still Randolph Municipal Baseball Park.

• Old Main, University of Arizona (University of Arizona)

  Construction on Old Main, the first building on the University of Arizona campus, began on October 27, 1887.

• University of Arizona Campus Historic District (University of Arizona Campus Historic District)

  Every one of the 18 contributing buildings here rises in the same red brick, the historic core of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

• Centennial Hall (University of Arizona)

  Red brick links Centennial Hall to almost every building on the University of Arizona campus, the auditorium Roy Place designed.

• Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium (University of Arizona)

  Named for American author Grace Flandrau, this science center and planetarium belongs to the University of Arizona.

• Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (University of Arizona)

  Tree-ring science was born at this University of Arizona laboratory in Tucson, where A.E. Douglass founded dendrochronology in 1937.

• Steward Observatory (University of Arizona)

  Since 1916 Steward Observatory has served as the research arm of the University of Arizona's Department of Astronomy.

• Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (University of Arizona)

  Founded in 1960 by astronomer Gerard Kuiper, the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory anchors planetary science at the University of Arizona.

• Wyant College of Optical Sciences (Tucson)

  Optics brought you here, to the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.

• Bear Down Gym (University of Arizona)

  Wildcats basketball filled Bear Down Gym, this 300-seat brick arena on the University of Arizona campus, from 1926 until 1973.

• Arizona Stadium (central Tucson)

  Casino Del Sol Stadium, known as Arizona Stadium until 2025, is the University of Arizona's football bowl in central Tucson.

• University of Arizona Poetry Center (Tucson)

  Poetry fills the University of Arizona Poetry Center, housed in a building named for Tucson arts patron Dr. Helen S. Schaefer.

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