Flagstaff attractions

Built in 1962, this tiny A-frame chapel has played host to countless weddings, moments of reflection, and spontaneous stops for travelers en route to the Grand Canyon. A touch bigger than its little front door suggests, the light-filled chapel has enough seating for about a dozen people. Its all-glass back wall frames quite the view: ponderosa pine trees aplenty and the San Francisco Peaks beyond.

Fifteen minutes from downtown Flagstaff, Buffalo Park is one of the city’s favorite green spaces. The highlight of the park is a flat, 2.2-mile (3.5-kilometer) loop trail on a grassy mesa peppered with ponderosa pines and overlooking the magnificent San Francisco Peaks. On warm days especially, runners, bikers, picnickers, and all manner of locals and visitors flock to this scenic meadow at the foot of Mt. Elden.