Factory tours, hatcheries, and open studios in Arizona
Factory tours, hatcheries, and open studios in Arizona, each compiled from its own sources: tour times, fees, and what you can watch. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- Open Studio TourTubac · Free self-guided open studio tourA free, self-guided tour of working studios in Arizona's Santa Cruz Valley, run each spring by Tubac Center of the Arts, where more than 100 artists open homes and workshops.
- Page Springs Fish HatcheryCornville · State-run fish hatcheryA state trout hatchery on Lower Oak Creek near Cornville, Arizona, where springs at a constant 68 degrees grow out fingerling trout on James Page's old ranch.
- Silver Creek Fish HatcheryShow Low · Fish hatcheryA state trout hatchery on spring-fed Silver Creek northeast of Show Low, Arizona, where every Apache trout stocked in the state is raised.
- Sonoran Glass SchoolTucson · Nonprofit educational organizationA nonprofit glass school in a former tire station at the dead end of West 18th Street in Tucson, where a 400-pound furnace runs as hot as 2,300 degrees.
- The Gold King Mine Ghost TownJerome · Ghost townA mining-camp ghost town a mile north of Jerome, Arizona, where Don Robertson's hundred-odd vehicles weather beside an 1890 mine shaft and a 1914 sawmill still cuts lumber.
- Tonto Creek Fish HatcheryPayson · Fish hatcheryA state trout hatchery near the headwaters of Tonto Creek beneath the Mogollon Rim, where visitors feed trout at a show pond and all of Arizona's Apache trout are hatched.
Factory Tours in all eleven states; next door in California, Utah, and Colorado.