Last Updated: May 2, 2026
Most people driving I-40 through northern Arizona think of Winslow — if they think of it at all — as the town from that Eagles song. And yes, we’ll get to that. But Winslow, Arizona turned out to be a genuinely rewarding base camp for three destinations that couldn’t be more different from each other: the Homolovi State Park ruins of an ancient Hopi village, the extraordinary Meteor Crater, and the luminous Little Painted Desert County Park at sunset. We came for a corner and stayed for all of it.
