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Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona)

The Barrio Santa Rosa is a neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona that is also a historic district listed on the U.S.

Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona)
Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona) · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Barrio Santa Rosa is a neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona that is also a historic district listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2011. It includes 124 buildings, built in adobe, brick, wood and other materials, in a variety of architectural styles. Architectural styles represented includes traditional Sonoran, Postwar Territorial, Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman, Mission/Spanish revival, and modern ranch.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona)

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Arizona

    The University of Arizona is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university established in the Arizona Territory.

    3 km · public university in Tucson, Arizona, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Steward Observatory

    Steward Observatory is the research arm of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. Its offices are located on the Arizona campus in Tucson, Arizona.

    3.3 km · research arm of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tuscon · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

    The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory is a research center for planetary science located in Tucson, Arizona. It is also a graduate school, constituting the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona.

    3.4 km · research center at the University of Arizona · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cathedral of Saint Augustine

    The Cathedral of Saint Augustine is the cathedral and mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson. It is located in Tucson, Arizona in the United States.

    1.1 km · church in Arizona, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mosque Tucson

    The Tucson Mosque, officially known as the Islamic Center of Tucson, abbreviated as ICT, is a mosque and Islamic community center in Tucson, Arizona. Situated near the University of Arizona, the society serves as both a prayer space and a community center.

    3.1 km · mosque in United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sentinel Peak

    Sentinel Peak is a 2,897 ft peak in the Tucson Mountains southwest of downtown Tucson, Arizona, United States. The valley's first inhabitants grew crops at the mountain's base, along the Santa Cruz River.

    2 km · mountain in Arizona, United States of America · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Arizona Stadium

    Casino Del Sol Stadium is an outdoor college football stadium located on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. It is the home field of the Arizona Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference.

    3 km · college football stadium in Tucson, Arizona · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    McKale Center

    McKale Center at ALKEME Arena is an athletic arena in the southwest United States, located on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. As the home of the university's Wildcats basketball team of the Big 12 Conference, it is primarily used for basketball, but also has physical training and therapy facilities.

    3.3 km · athletic arena · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Arizona State Museum

    The Arizona State Museum, founded in 1893, was originally a repository for the collection and protection of archaeological resources. Today, however, ASM stores artifacts, exhibits them and provides education and research opportunities.

    2.9 km · museum in Arizona, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    James E. Rogers College of Law

    University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, also known as the University of Arizona College of Law, is the law school at the University of Arizona located in Tucson, Arizona, United States and was the first law school founded in the State of Arizona, opening its doors in 1915. It was renamed in 1999 in honor of broadcasting executive James E. Rogers, a 1962 graduate of the school, and chairman of Sunbelt Communications Company based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

    3.4 km · law school at the University of Arizona · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona)

Airports
Tucson (TUS), 11 km · Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX), 167 km
Stations
El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Depot, 1.4 km
  • Phoenix → Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona)
    172 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · $15–20
  • El Paso → Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona)
    426 km · quickest by air, 6h 25m · $170–250
  • Albuquerque → Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona)
    512 km · quickest by air, 6h 16m · $160–240
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona)

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona). What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFor cooler weather, you can make a day trip from Tucson up into the Santa Catalina Mountains and Mt.
  • Go nextFurther afield is Phoenix to the north, if you want "more city" than Tucson, which can be done as a day trip from Tucson, or you can move your base of operations from Tucson to Phoenix.
  • Go nextThese destinations are a bit of a stretch as day trips from Tucson.
  • Go nextSoutheast is Bisbee, which makes for a pleasant day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Tucson, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  5. 05
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Around it

Next door to Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona)

Barrio Santa Rosa (Tucson, Arizona) is 4 km from Tucson, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.