Tour Bisbee

Bisbee’s Queen Mine Tour is still the town’s biggest attraction

The Bisbee Queen Mine Tour gets more than 50,000 visitors each year, and has been pulling them in at this level for several decades. It’s the most popular destination in the southeastern Arizona city, with the highest numbers visiting in the first four months of the year.
Bisbee and the Queen are almost synonymous. The first [...]

Bisbee mines, history directly linked to development of America

It’s easy to see the development of towns of the Old West of the late 1800s as being related only to local issues, such as a railroad, a cattle trail or a silver mine, but despite its out-of-the-way location in extreme southern Arizona, Bisbee history exhibits a direct parallel to that the the nation.
A copper-mining [...]

Learn more about Bisbee each week on Cochise County TV

A new weekly television show, Cochise County TV, is presenting feature stories about the culture, history and people of Bisbee and other cities around the county. It can be seen on cable in most cities around the county and in Tucson and is available around the world on the internet. The individual features also can [...]

New audio “book,” A Brief History of Bisbee, is now available

Gary Dillard, the creator of this blog, has just published an hour-long audio CD “book” titled A Brief History of Bisbee.  It is available online and locally at the Queen Mine Tour and Atalanta’s Music and Books.
This audio stems from a booklet Dillard first published in 1995 with the same title, but contains more than [...]

Bisbee turquoise is one of best-known products of historic copper town

The southern Arizona mining town of Bisbee once had more than 20,000 residents and in a century of mining produced some 8 billion — with a “b” — pounds of copper metal, but to many people, it’s best known for the few hundred tons of turquoise that were uncovered here in that last quarter century [...]

Bisbee Mining Museum one of best small museums in the nation

Visitors are amazed to find a facility like the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum in rural Arizona.  And they should be surprised.  It’s not your typical small town facility.
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A few years ago, the Bisbee museum became the smallest institution to ask the Smithsonian Institution to participate in its affiliation program.  That meant our community [...]

Jeep tour provides both in-depth, broad-brush views of Bisbee

For many years, visitors saw what they could of Bisbee from the narrow strip of street that runs up the bottom of Tombstone Canyon.  A few more adventurous souls would walk up a side road and those on the annual stairclimb would get beyond the basics.
But with the creation of Lavender Jeep Tours by Bisbee [...]

What to expect in your visit to Bisbee, Arizona

Since 1975, with the closing of the copper mines, Bisbee has looked to tourism to supplement its economy, which is dominated now by government agencies.
Two projects highlighted the early years of tourism, the Queen Mine Tour and the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum.
Fast forward to 2009. Some things haven’t changed. The Mine Tour and the [...]