
Over the last year, I’ve featured the 50 must-see natural wonders highlighted in Arizona Bucket List Adventure Guide & Journal. As we round out the year, it’s time to reflect back on the 50 AZ Wonders of the Week – WOW for short.
Pictured above: WOW #36: Watson Lake near Prescott, Arizona.
It’s no coincidence that the acronym for Wonder of the Week is WOW!
If you get the AZ Wonders Insider newsletter or follow AZ Wonders on social media, you’ve been virtually exploring these fascinating places week in and week out. Below is a rundown of those 50 places.




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Here’s a recap of the year’s AZ Wonders of the Week:
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Falls aka Chocolate Falls
- The Wave at Coyote Buttes
- Painted Rock Petroglyph Site
- Wupatki National Monument Ruins
- Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
- Havasupai Falls
- Joshua Forest Scenic Highway
- Kaiser Hot Spring
- Superstition Mountains Cougar Shadow
- Flatiron Peak in the Superstition Mountains
- Monument Valley
- Tonto National Monument Ruins
- Lake Havasu
- Betatakin Ruins
- Keet Seel Canyon
- Humphrey’s Peak
- Walnut Canyon National Monument Ruins
- Mindeleff Cavates
- Madera Canyon
- Tanque Verde Falls
- Saguaro National Park
- Sabino Canyon
- Mount Lemmon
- Lake Powell
- Antelope Canyon
- Horseshoe Bend
- Meteor Crater
- Blue Ridge Reservoir
- Mount Baldy & White Mountains
- Lower Salt River
- Devils Bridge
- Sedona vortexes
- V_V Heritage Site
- Aravaipa Canyon
- Watson Lake
- Canyon de Chelly
- Chiricahua Mountains
- Emerald Cove
- Fossil Creek
- Lockett Meadow
- West Fork Oak Creek Trail
- Horton Spring and Creek
- Ringbolt Hot Springs
- Rock Art Ranch
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Verde Hot Springs
- Fossil Creek
- Tonto Natural Bridge
- Kartchner Caverns
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About the author
In 2014, Paul Fiarkoski went on a hiking trip to world-famous Havasupai Falls in the Grand Canyon. After three days of hiking and wading in the turquoise pools beneath 100-foot waterfalls, his perspective of Arizona changed forever. He created an Arizona bucket list and began checking places off.
Arizona Bucket List Adventure Guide & Journal includes his list of top 50 natural wonders.