Just Around the Corner from Home: The Jewel of Southern Arizona

Stretching over 600 square miles, metropolitan Tucson is a study in contrasts.  You'll find historic adobes and high rises silhouetted against a modern skyline, or high Sonoran desert landscape at the base of snow-capped mountain splendor.  Are you familiar with the world-class resources just an hour's drive from Sunsites?

     -More artists per capita are living in Tucson than in any other U.S. city, and The Wall
      Street Journal has designated Tucson as a "mini mecca" for the arts.

     -Tucson is one of only 14 U.S. cities to maintain professional opera, a symphony
      orchestra, ballet, and theatre companies.  Nightlife ranges from rock concerts and lively
      comedy to the performing arts!

     -Families can escape to Tucson for a weekend getaway.  The area offers a major water
      park, Reid Park Zoo, Tucson Children's Museum, fascinating science centers, elaborate
      playgrounds and sports centers, wonderful parks and wildlife preserves.

     -Tucson is one of the nation's leading centers of astronomy, the location of the Challenger
      Learning Center of the Southwest, and the home of Columbia University's Biosphere 2-- a
      living laboratory where scientists use the latest technology to experiment with "earth
      systems" on a grand scale.

     -The University of Arizona in Tucson is one of the nation's foremost research universities,
      home to a College of Pharmacy, College if Medicine, and a School of Nursing ranked 6th
      in the nation.

     -Arizona's most advanced healthcare and research institutions are located in Tucson, the
      home of the state's only medical school.  The University Medical Center's transplant
      program is one of only nine in the nation!

     -Collegiate competition in the prestigious PAC 10 Conference with the University of
      Arizona combines with professional hockey and spring training exhibitions for the Chicago
      White Sox, the Colorado Rockies, and the Arizona Diamondbacks.

     -Major golf tournaments like the Tucson Chrysler Classic PGA Tournament and the PING/
      Welch's Championship LPGA event draw enthusiastic crowds.

     -From December through April, downhill skiing is available just 30 miles north of Tucson at
      Mount Lemon Ski Valley--the southern most ski area in all of North America.

     -Nearby lakes like Parker Canyon, Pena Blanca, Arivaca, Rose Canyon Lake, and Lake
      Pantagonia offer swimming, boating, fishing, and other water sports.