We recommend that you rent a car when you stay with us as there is much to see and do around Sasabe - within an hour's drive from the ranch, you can visit:

Historic Tubac - Settled by Europeans in 1691, Tubac is now a center for arts in Arizona with "traditional" Southwest shopping. The Tubac Center for the Arts features museum quality exhibits - please click here for further information.

Tumacacori Mission - Built by the Franciscans in around 1800, it functioned as a fort and mission church for several years.

Mission of San Xavier Del Bac - Located on an Indian reservation, this is known as the "White Dove of the Desert" because of its tall white domes. This Mission has been called the finest example of Mission architecture in the United States.

Kitt Peak Observatory - Located at an elevation of 6,882 feet, Kitt Peak Observatory houses the largest concentration of stellar and solar research in the world. In addition, the world's largest telescope can be found here together with more than 20 telescopes to observe both the daytime and nighttime sky -please click here for further information.

Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge - Situated in the Sonoran Desert amongst a landscape of semi-desert grasslands, mountains, rocky canyons and a cottonwood lined stream, the Refuge provides approximately 118,000 acres of habitat for threatened and endangered plants and animals. Good hiking and biking is available within the refuge's trail systems. For more information please click here.

Saguaro National Forest and Desert Museum -  A world-renowned zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden, all in one place!  Exhibits re-create the natural landscape of the Sonoran Desert region so realistically you find yourself eye-to-eye with mountain lions, prairie dogs, gila monsters and more. Within the Museum grounds, you will see more than 300 animal species and 1,200 kinds of plants. There are almost two miles of paths traversing 21 acres of beautiful desert.  For more information please click here.

The Magic of Baboquivari - Baboquivari Peak (Waw Kiwulik, "narrow about the middle," in the O'odham language), which can be seen from Rancho De La Osa, is a magnificent mountain which the Tohono Nation believe is the home of one of their most important legendary figures - after he created fire, deer, humans, vultures and more than a little mischief, he settled in a complex of caves with an entrance below the sacred peak. Basket weavers depict this maze as a spiral with a man inside.

Baboquivari is a 7,830-foot peak of solid granite with origins dating back more than 100 million years. The mountain is wreathed in myth and mystery. Many climbers have experienced wild, unexpected weather with bone-cracking lightning, sudden mists and violent winds.

In 1951 Supreme Court Justice - and former guest of Rancho De La Osa - William O Douglas described the peak as "a magic pillar of granite riding high above dark and angry clouds. Lightning briefly played around its base and then it vanished as quickly as it appeared - engulfed by black clouds that welled upward in some wind."