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El Rancho Robles is the gateway to your next adventure! With close proximity to some of the best biking, hiking, golfing, caving, bird watching, site seeing, horseback riding, and off road trails in the state, you can explore the beauty of the desert with El Rancho Robles as your home base. Perhaps you are more interested in visiting local attractions like the Biosphere, state parks and other Arizona tourist destinations. Our close proximity to these means you can spend more time enjoying these and less time driving to get there. Whatever your taste for adventure, make El Rancho Robles the first stop on your adventure.

Due to its high altitude of 4500 feet above sea level, the weather remains mild during summers with the average summer temperatures remaining in the low 90s. Winters offer a unique opportunity to experience the occasional snowfall in southern Arizona and skiing at nearby Mt. Lemmon.

Nearby Attractions
Nearby Attractions

Nearby Attractions

Oracle State Park, Center for Environmental Education

A 4,000 acre wildlife refuge located on the northern foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. The park offers 15 miles of interconnecting loop trails through oak-grassland overlooking the San Pedro River Valley. A four-mile section of the Arizona Trail transects the park, and is a multi-use trail enjoyed by hikers, equestrians and mountain bikers. The park was once the Kannally family ranch, and the Mediterranean-style Kannally Ranch House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Biosphere 2- Tours of the interior building including the underground lung are offered daily and located within 10 mins of the ranch. The tour provides an opportunity to appreciate and discuss science in a friendly, informal setting. This one-of-a-kind facility sits on a ridge at a cool elevation of nearly 4000 feet and is surrounded by a magnificent natural desert preserve.

Biosphere 2

Biosphere 2- Tours of the interior building including the underground lung are offered daily and located within 10 mins of the ranch. The tour provides an opportunity to appreciate and discuss science in a friendly, informal setting. This one-of-a-kind facility sits on a ridge at a cool elevation of nearly 4000 feet and is surrounded by a magnificent natural desert preserve.
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The Arizona National Scenic Trail is a complete non-motorized path, stretching 800 diverse miles across Arizona from Mexico to Utah. It links deserts, mountains, canyons, forests, history, communities and people. The Arizona Trail Association’s mission is to protect, maintain, enhance, promote and sustain the Arizona Trail as a unique encounter with the natural environment.

The Arizona Trail

The Arizona National Scenic Trail is a complete non-motorized path, stretching 800 diverse miles across Arizona from Mexico to Utah. It links deserts, mountains, canyons, forests, history, communities and people. The Arizona Trail Association’s mission is to protect, maintain, enhance, promote and sustain the Arizona Trail as a unique encounter with the natural environment.
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Off the beaten path, you can explore the wide-open wonder of the American Southwest up-close and unrestrained, hiking the mountain ranges that circle the Old Pueblo or wandering wilderness preserves and parks, from the cascades of Seven Falls at Sabino Canyon to the majestic cacti of Saguaro National Parks East & West, or from the high-pine and aspen forests of Mt. Lemmon to the cool, otherworldly depths of Colossal Cave Mountain Park or Kartchner Caverns State Park®.

Tuscon, Arizona

Off the beaten path, you can explore the wide-open wonder of the American Southwest up-close and unrestrained, hiking the mountain ranges that circle the Old Pueblo or wandering wilderness preserves and parks, from the cascades of Seven Falls at Sabino Canyon to the majestic cacti of Saguaro National Parks East & West, or from the high-pine and aspen forests of Mt. Lemmon to the cool, otherworldly depths of Colossal Cave Mountain Park or Kartchner Caverns State Park®.
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