Green Valley-Arizona

With amenities as 9 golf courses, shopping plazas, clubs and organizations, medical facilities, worship and recreation centers, Green Valley, Arizona is so designed and built for an active lifestyle all year round.

Although it caters to an age-restricted community, Green Valley has areas for non-age-restricted families with children to live, especially the neighboring town of Sahuarita where housing is plentiful with excellent parks, schools and awesome resident homes.

It is the host of the 2005 SAE Mini Baja100 competition participated by 60 teams from different universities, including Canada whose Ecole de Technologie team won.

Green Valley-Arizona is home to the Titan Missile Museum. The Mount Hopkins Observatory and the Kartchner Caverns offer enjoyable activities. Discover their award-winning exhibit center, video theater, cactus garden and picnic area at the Asarco Mineral Discovery Center.

Tours around Green Valley will bring you to the oldest schoolhouse in Arizona, the rich grazing land and lakes that offer great fishing.

Green Valley offers the best of two worlds and four cultures. It is a part of the original San Ignacio de la Canoa Land Grant from the king of Spain. It is an area of rich history where ancient Indians, conquistadores, missionaries, cowboys, miners, ranchers, and modern day health seekers settled.

Small-town friendly living and traffic relief are what attract people to Green Valley, in addition to the amenities mentioned above.

Bounded by Duval Road on the north, Elephant Head Road on the south, the Santa Cruz River and Madera Reserve to the east, and Sierrita Mountains to the west, Green Valley has a unique blend of cultures from the Native Americans, Spanish colonial, Mexican and Anglo cultures.

Other historic attractions include early Spanish missions, old mines, ghost towns, cattle ranches and wildlife preserves.

If the town of Tombstone, Arizona is known as the “town too tough to die”, Green Valley, Arizona is regarded as the “town too good to die”. Simply because it is home to residents who have learned how to live Green Valley’s good life.