Things to Do in Tucson: A Cool City in the Hot Arizona Desert

Jennifer Allford

November 14, 2018

TUCSON, ARIZONA — A giant “A” looks down on Tucson from high up Sentinel Peak on the west side of the city. University of Arizona students first put it up there in 1910 to show their school spirit. The railway had been rolling through Tucson for a few decades and things were booming for the town nestled between mountain ranges in the Sonoran desert.