This is a complete list of national parks in Arizona. If you're thinking it's time for a vacation, why not explore closer to home?
Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona is shown on March 14, 2008. The majestic canyon, replete with thousands of ruins, carvings and paintings on stone, is revered by the Navajo people, who consider it sacred and it is classified as a living monument by the National Parks Service. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
Felicia FonsecaChinle, Arizona
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument offers a window on the Hohokam era. Four stories high and 60 feet long, it has stood for more than six centuries. Early Spanish explorers called it Casa Grande, and to them it was a mystery. Photo by Sergey Shayevich / Arizona Daily Star, taken June 17, 1999.
Sergey ShayevichCoolidge, Arizona
The rhyolite rock formations along the Echo Canyon Loop Trial in the Chiricahua National Monument. Photo by David Sanders / Arizona Daily Star, Feb. 27, 1997.
David Sanders / Arizona Daily StarWillcox, Arizona
Scarlet Creeper, red, and Ivy leaf Morning-Glory wrap around a burned stick along the Coronado Peak Trail in the Coronado National Memorial on August 31, 2011 near Sierra Vista, Ariz. Photo by Dean Knuth / Arizona Daily Star.
Dean Knuth/Arizona Daily StarHereford, Arizona
Fort Bowie National Historic Site today, looking to the southeast, as in the photo at left.
Mike Christy / Arizona Daily StarWillcox, Arizona
In this Wednesday, March 5, 2008 file photo, water levels at the Colorado River's Horseshoe Bend begin to rise along the beaches just hours after the Glen Canyon Dam jet tubes began releasing water, in Page, Ariz.
Matt York / AP PhotoGlen Canyon, Arizona
From the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Johanna Eubank / Arizona Daily StarGrand Canyon, Arizona
A bird sits on a branch off of the Juan Bautista de Anza trail near Tumacacori National Historic Park
Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily StarNogales, AZ to San Francisco, CA
Lake Mead July 24, 2014. (AP Photo/John Locher)
John LocherMojave Desert, Arizona
In several states including northern Arizona
The morning sun illuminates an organ pipe cactus at the monument.
Mike Christy / Arizona Daily StarAjo, Arizona
The Shivwits Plateau, a strip of land between the Grand Canyon and the Utah state line near Kingman, is part of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument.
Bureau of Land ManagementNorthern Arizona
The Painted Desert's Kachina Trail winds through dusty red hills, illuminated by early morning light, Oct. 7, 2001. The Painted Desert occupies the northern part of the 93,533-acre Petrified Forest National Park in eastern Arizona. (AP Photo/ Alisa Blackwood)
ALISA BLACKWOODPetrified Forest, Arizona
A proposal to boost entry fees at Saguaro National Park would raise them $5 across four categories.
Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star 2016Tucson, Arizona
Sunset Crater is seen just west of Flagstaff, Ariz., in this May, 1999 file photo. Explorer John Wesley Powell is often credited with discovering Sunset Crater, but at least one researcher now believes the crater was first charted by Lt. George Wheeler on expedition for the United States government in 1871.
National Park ServiceFlagstaff, Arizona
The lower cliff dwellings of the Tonto National Monument are a short hike above the Apache Trail east of Phoenix, Ariz. Wednesday January 8, 2003. Photo by Aaron J. Latham / Arizona Daily Star
Aaron J. Latham / Arizona Daily StarRoosevelt, Arizona
Santa Cruz River flows near Tumacacori National Historic Park, 1891 E. Frontage Road Tumacacori, Ariz. on Thursday July 21, 2016.
Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily StarTumacácori, Arizona
Walnut Canyon National Monument attracts visitors with its rock formations and ancient pueblos.
National Park ServiceFlagstaff, Arizona
The Lomaki Pueblo in Wupatki National Monument north of Flagstaff.
National Park ServiceFlagstaff, Arizona
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