Old Tucson — the Hollywood of the desert since 1939 — needs its next chapter. We're a Tucson-rooted crew reimagining it as a living Western world: film, festivals, immersive stories, artists in residence, and a real community stake in the town we all grew up with.
Everything people already love stays — the gunfights, the stunt shows, Nightfall, the train, the history. Around that core, we grow the town into something no place else on earth can be.
Revive the working studio: productions, soundstages, and a new generation of Western filmmaking — with a training pipeline for local crews.
Quarterly music and arts gatherings under the desert sky — from intimate nights in the Grand Palace to full-grounds festival weekends.
Step into the story: immersive Western adventures, characters who remember you, and the stunt craft Old Tucson is famous for.
Studios, workshops, and storefronts where working artists build the town's next layer — and teach the crafts that built the West.
Youth and adult education in film craft, stunts, horsemanship, blacksmithing, carpentry, and performance — heritage trades, living wages.
Built as a benefit corporation with profit-sharing, worker ownership, and a real community stake — a park that raises all ships.
A rotating look inside the plan as it develops. These are working concepts — the final town gets written with the community, not for it.
This project only works as a conversation. Ideas submitted through the form below get pinned to this growing board — credited the way you ask us to.
💡 This board starts with you.
Be one of the first voices pinned up.
“Example: My grandfather was an extra in a Western shot here in the 60s. Some kind of memory wall or oral-history booth where families can record their Old Tucson stories.”
“Example: Sunset horseback rides that end at a campfire dinner with music. Tucson has nothing like that anymore.”
“Example: Let high-schoolers earn stage-craft credit building the sets. I teach CTE and my kids would lose their minds.”
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COMMUNITY IDEA FORM GOES HERE
Embed the Google Form (suggested fields: name · email · connection to Old Tucson · your idea · may we display it publicly? · how would you like to be credited? · want to volunteer/collaborate?)
Questions or press: hello@oldtucsonreimagined.com
Collaborators, creators, advisors, and partner organizations joining the effort. This board fills up as conversations become commitments — check back.
📖 The full Old Tucson Reimagined pitch lands here.
The complete public presentation — the vision, the phases, the community structure, and how the numbers keep the lights on. It publishes here after our first community townhall this fall.
The best way to understand this project is to walk the streets. Old Tucson is 20 minutes from downtown, past Gates Pass in Tucson Mountain Park — go for a tour, stay for the sunset.
Fly into Tucson International (TUS) — the park is ~30 minutes from the airport and downtown. Rental car recommended; the Gates Pass drive at golden hour is itself worth the trip.
Desert lodges & resorts on the west side: JW Marriott Starr Pass, White Stallion Ranch, Tanque Verde Ranch, Casino del Sol, plus downtown's Hotel Congress. Partner lodging packages coming as the project grows.
Pair your visit with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Saguaro National Park West — Old Tucson's neighbors in one of the most beautiful desert valleys on earth.