Jerome has an amazing view of the surrounding mountains. 1, Jerome.īisbee: +15 (+18 overall) The Spirit Room, Jerome, AZ. Meanwhile, if Bisbee is a drinking town, Jerome is a drinking-with-grandpa town. However, below the surface, Bisbee is just more of a drinking town. Jerome also has a place called Paul and Jerry’s Saloon, one of the oldest bars in Arizona. But Jerome answers back with the Spirit Room, a great place to grab a drink and listen to live music. It’s going to be tough to compete with that, Jerome. +2, Bisbee!īisbee has our favorite Arizona dive bar, St. The tasting rooms feel like spots designed to just grab a few more tourist dollars from the retirees roaming the streets.īisbee has a couple local brews, most notably, Old Bisbee Brewing Company, a place so tiny they have to pump the beer from the brewing room across the street to the tiny aging and serving room. Too much like Temecula and not enough like Paso Robles. Jerome has wineries! +5, Jerome! But -1 for the tasting-room feel. Bisbee, +1 for you.īisbee: +1 Look at this lot! Everybody crowds the one a block away. You can park on the street in Bisbee because nobody is breathing down your neck trying to sneak into the space ahead of you.

The main road bypassing the town does just that - it bypasses the downtown and doesn’t clutter things up with pass-through traffic. It was brutal, so -5 for that, Jerome.īisbee has enough parking and it’s calmer. We saw somebody try to wait out a parked minivan only to be dicked-over by the driver who refused to leave until the person got off his back. But there are serious crowds here and because nobody knows the layout, people end up fighting over the parking spots right at the beginning instead of going to the big lots farther along the road. There are a lot of places to park and they’re convenient. The city with the most points will be crowned Arizona’s best small former-mining town. That’s why I’m going to make this very scientific. But did we love Bisbee too much to enjoy Jerome? Were our love-struck eyes too cloudy to appreciate another tiny town in Arizona? Maybe. We loved Bisbee so much we were really looking forward to exploring another of Arizona’s ex-mining towns, Jerome. We loved Bisbee so much we can’t wait to return.

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