Bisbee, AZ

25 minutes west of Douglas, AZ and 8 miles north of Mexico lies the little former copper mining town of Bisbee.  It is literally built onto a mountainside and a canyon and so the town's streets and buildings are laid out vertically with streets and stairs zig-zagging their way up the mountainside.  In the 1970's the mine closed and the town became an artists' colony and turn-of the century living museum to live in a mining town in the late 1800's

Approaching the town from Douglas you enter the traffic roundabout to head off to Bisbee:

The old copper pit descends hundreds of feet into the landscape:

Looking out over Downtown Bisbee from highway 80:

An example of the Hippie-arts scattered all over the town:

More hippie-art... this was pretty cool... especially the dino-skeleton in the background:

Looking up from a street at how the parking and housing are often arranged in Bisbee:

More of downtown Bisbee:

The Copper Queen hotel where we stayed overnight:

Should you drive left and up, straight and kinda-level, or right and down?