Nogales, AZ Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Twenty miles south of Tumacácori, an hour from Tucson, sits the largest of the Arizonan-Mexican border towns, NOGALES – in effect two towns, one in the US and one across the border in Mexico. Known jointly as Ambos Nogales (both Nogales), they welcome considerable numbers of tourists, though with cheap Mexican crafts now so widely available in the US, day-trippers these days tend to be looking for cut-price medicines rather than rugs or hammocks. There's nothing in particular to see on either side of the border, though the contrast between the orderly streets of the American town and the jumbled … more »