• Pythian Castle - Pythian Castle stands as a prominent brick structure in Old Bisbee, featuring a unique domed tower constructed in 1904 for the Knights of Pythias fraternal lodge. Today, it is a popular spot for photographs, adding a whimsical touch to Bisbee’s historic skyline.
• The Muheim Heritage House Museum - Located in Bisbee, Arizona, the Muheim House is a beautifully restored Queen Anne–style residence built in phases from 1898 to 1915 for Swiss-born entrepreneur Joseph Muheim and his wife Carmelita. Situated on Youngblood Hill, it offers panoramic views of Old Bisbee and Brewery Gulch and now serves as a heritage museum showcasing early 20th-century Bisbee life with period furnishings.
• Brewery Gulch - Brewery Gulch is Bisbee’s historic red-brick entertainment district, once bustling with saloons, breweries, and boarding houses catering to Copper Queen miners. Today, it is a vibrant, narrow canyon street filled with bars, eateries, and music venues, exuding old-west charm after dark.
• Copper Queen Hotel - The Copper Queen Hotel is Bisbee’s grand old dame—a Victorian-era hotel constructed by the Phelps Dodge mining company between 1898 and 1902 to accommodate visiting investors and dignitaries. It is Arizona’s longest continuously operating hotel, renowned for its elegant historic architecture, cozy rooms, and famous ghost stories, making it a beloved stop in Old Bisbee.
• Covenant Presbyterian Church, Bisbee - Covenant Presbyterian Church is a small Gothic Revival landmark built in 1903–1904, featuring red walls, stained-glass windows, and a steep slate roof topped with a Celtic-cross spire, located at 19 Howell Avenue next to the Copper Queen Hotel in Old Bisbee.
• The Carrick - The Carrick is a historic all-suites hotel in the heart of Old Bisbee, housed in a 1903 red-brick former YMCA and Copper Queen Gymnasium. Beautifully restored, it offers spacious apartment-style suites with kitchens, high ceilings, and decks overlooking Bisbee’s hills—an easy walk from Main Street, the museum, and local shops.
• Central School Project - Central School in Bisbee is a 1905 Renaissance Revival schoolhouse designed by Copper Queen architect F.C. Hurst. Once the town’s main elementary school, it now serves as the Central School Project, a nonprofit arts center with studios and community events.
• Bisbee High Lofts - Old Bisbee High School, built in 1914 on Clawson Avenue, is one of the town’s most iconic landmarks. The four-story brick building is famous for its unusual design, with a ground-level entrance on every floor—a quirk that once earned it a spot in Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Today it stands above Old Bisbee as a cherished historic reminder of the city’s boomtown school days.
• High Road - The High Road is a steep, winding street that ascends above Old Bisbee to some of the town’s highest homes and viewpoints. Along its concrete retaining walls and switchbacks, visitors are rewarded with sweeping views over the red-roofed hillsides, Sacramento Hill, the Lavender Pit, and clear days that stretch all the way toward Mexico.
• Quality Hill Road - Quality Hill Road climbs above Old Bisbee, winding past the Art Deco Cochise County Courthouse and St. Patrick’s Church into a historic hillside neighborhood of early 1900s Copper Queen homes, leafy stairways, and sweeping views over Tombstone Canyon.
• St Patrick Catholic Church - St. Patrick Catholic Church rises above Old Bisbee on Higgins Hill, a Gothic Revival “jewel in the desert” built between 1915 and 1917 when Bisbee was a booming mining town. Its tall bell tower, ornate interior, and richly colored stained-glass windows reflect the faith of the Irish and European miners who worshiped here, and it’s now listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Bisbee Historic District.
• Cochise County Courthouse, Bisbee - The Cochise County Courthouse in Bisbee is a striking 1930s Art Deco landmark perched on Quality Hill, overlooking Old Bisbee. Its pale stucco walls, bold geometric lines, and miner-themed sculptures honor the town’s copper-mining heritage and make it one of Bisbee’s most photogenic historic buildings.
• Main Street - Main Street in Bisbee curves through a narrow canyon lined with brick storefronts, vintage neon signs, galleries, cafés, and quirky little shops. It feels like an Old West main drag turned arts district, with colorful buildings climbing the hillsides above.
• Copper Queen Library and Observation Balconies EST 1882 - The Copper Queen Library in Bisbee, Arizona, is the oldest continuously operating public library in the state, founded in 1882 by the Phelps Dodge mining company to “civilize” the booming copper camp. Housed today in a handsome 1906 building on Main Street that it shares with the U.S. Post Office, the library blends historic charm with modern services and has earned national recognition, including being named one of America’s best small libraries.
• Phelps Dodge General Office Building - The Phelps Dodge General Office Building is a red-brick, Italianate landmark built in 1895 as the headquarters for the powerful Phelps Dodge copper mining company in Bisbee. Today, this National Historic Landmark houses the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum, preserving the town’s rich mining story for visitors.
• Lavender Pit - The Lavender Pit in Bisbee is a massive, colorful open-pit copper mine carved into the Mule Mountains, just below Old Bisbee and next to Lowell. Dug by Phelps Dodge from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s, it produced hundreds of thousands of tons of copper and the famous “Bisbee Blue” turquoise. Today, visitors look down into its terraced walls to see vivid reds, greens, and purples that tell the story of Bisbee’s mining boom.
• Erie Street - Erie Street in Bisbee’s Lowell district is a preserved “time-capsule” main street, lined with vintage cars, retro storefronts, and old gas stations that recreate the feel of a 1940s–1970s mining town. It’s a semi-ghost-town strip that visitors explore like an open-air museum and favorite photo spot.
• Lowell Junior High School - Lowell School is a public middle school in the historic Lowell district of Bisbee, Arizona, serving students in grades 6-8 as part of the Bisbee Unified School District. Known for its historic campus and auditorium, it acts as an important bridge between elementary and high school for local families.
• The Shady Dell - The Shady Dell in Bisbee is a vintage trailer court and retro motel where guests stay overnight in lovingly restored 1940s–1950s travel trailers, surrounded by classic cars and roadside Americana. Once a stop for travelers on historic Highway 80, it’s now a quirky, photogenic getaway with an on-site 50s-style diner and an old-school, mid-century desert vibe.
• Evergreen Cemetery - Evergreen Cemetery in Bisbee is a historic hillside graveyard in the Lowell district, near the Lavender Pit. Established in the early 1900s to replace Bisbee’s original cemetery, it’s the final resting place for thousands of miners, pioneers, and community figures, with weathered headstones and fraternal-order sections that quietly tell the story of Bisbee’s past.

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This version of our most popular jeep tour includes tour keepsakes - red keychain (2” × 1”, gray etching) etched with the Tour name, a memorable quote from the tour, and Big Jeep Tour’s logo on the back. It also includes a 3” x 2” black aluminum plate with gray etching - magnet with the Tour name, a memorable quote, and the company logo. It’s a great way to remember the laughter, the lookout moments, and the memories, long after you’re home.

See Old Bisbee with a local who grew up here. This private, 2-hour Jeep tour covers historic neighborhoods, the Lavender Pit overlook (no entry into the pit), and Lowell’s vintage car streets. Expect easy step-in access, comfortable seating, frequent photo stops, and clear narration about Bisbee’s mining, architecture, and everyday life.

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.