Central City
Worth seeing in and around Central City
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.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Central City
- Airports
- Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX), 5 km · Tucson (TUS), 181 km
- Stations
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, 4.3 km · Goldwater Air National Guard Base, 4.5 km · Union Station, 2 km · Thomas Road and Central Avenue, 4.8 km · Van Buren/Central Avenue, 2 km
- Tucson → Central City172 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · $15–20
- Las Vegas → Central City414 km · quickest by air, 4h 2m · $140–220
- Palm Springs → Central City417 km · quickest by air, 5h 38m · $130–190
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Central City
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 Central City. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMain building at 15000 N Airport Dr | lat -111.9161 | content = It's one of the busiest single-runway airports in the United States, and Signature Flight Support and Ross Aviation operate the two private terminals for chartered VIP flights.
- Get inAir charter companies including Valley Jet and Phoenix Jet Charter offer access to private planes based at any of the airports in the Phoenix-area, with planes ranging from luxury jets to cost-effective single & twin-engine planes.
- Go nextA good option for a day trip, or longer, out of Phoenix is a drive north to Sedona.
From Wikivoyage: Phoenix, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Central City
Central City is 2 km from Phoenix, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Encantohuman settlement in Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America4.9 km
- Central Avenue Corridorhuman settlement in Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America6 km