While doomscrolling on Instagram late one night, I saw something that made me pause in my tracks. My friend Guy had shared a post about Bisbee, Arizona — a city I had never heard of before — and a stairway event there called the Bisbee 1000 . The Bisbee 1000, I learned, was an urban hiking route throughout the city featuring 9 stairways and 1000+ stairs over 4.5 miles and about 700 feet of elevation. I was sold — I knew I had to go. I got my chance to visit Bisbee in mid-March 2026 with a few girlfriends. We ended up planning a short trip around Arizona, flying into Phoenix and out of Tucson with a stop in Bisbee on the way. Phoenix was a great time, and we spent 4 hours at the Musical Instrument Museum , but that’s another post for another time! But after Phoenix, we drove a little over three hours southeast to Bisbee. By the time we got there, we were about 12 miles from the Mexican border. It was dark out when we arrived, but we could already sense the allure of this old coppe...