Location: Gates Pass, Tucson, Tucson & Southern Arizona, Arizona, USA (12 minutes from Downtown Tucson) View Map
Accommodations: Home, 3 Bedrooms + Sunroom, 3 Baths (Sleeps 6-8)
Our house can provide you with a unique Tucson experience. A few of our guests’ comments:
“This is a gorgeous very private livable house with multiple patios and a private pool all with great city views. Very close to town....”
“This house is awesome!!! We loved it and really enjoyed our stay there. The house and scenery is gorgeous!...”
“We wanted you to know we had such an enjoyable stay at your beautiful home. It was a very cozy and peaceful place, and we had great afternoon siestas!...”
Our own sentiments, exactly. You can sit on your porch or by your swimming pool and look out over the hills to the Tucson valley and Tucson city lights below. Or sit in your dining room, sunroom or one of the bedrooms and view the same scene through the Italian arches that characterize this adobe brick home.
You will enjoy the new comfortable furnishings, decorations and talevera tile laid out in the house's seven spacious rooms and three bathrooms (a total of 2400 square feet), but you will find the surrounding environment just as comfortable. We have provided you 42 photographs here and on the website link shown below so that you can SEE FOR YOURSELF. We hope this takes the guessing out of renting our house. If you have further questions, please ask.
Many Tucson homes are closed in and not oriented toward the outside because the desert surrounding these houses is a bit dry, harsh, and, frankly, uninviting. However, the views of the shade trees and gardens in our yard as well as the surrounding green hills enhance your pleasure while you are inside the house and draw you outside through the sliding doors to enjoy the porches, patios, and yard. For example, when we are there, we eat most of our meals outside on the patio off the dining room under the shade of a roof. The numerous shade trees, the pool, and 15 tall saguaro cactuses on the property make a uniquely welcoming environment, EVEN IN THE HOT SUMMER.
In this unique neighborhood directly West of the city all the homes are spaced far apart at many different elevations so that our house has great privacy and quiet. The neighborhood backs up to the Tucson Mountain Park and is hillier and more scenic than you will find in the Catalina Foothills North of the city. Just a few miles up the road you will find beautiful Gates Pass that takes you down into the next valley where you can visit the Desert Museum and Old Tucson, the ex-movie location. Watching the sunset from atop Gates Pass is a favorite pastime of ours and many other Tucsonians.
Being this "far away" from the noisy city does not mean that you will be isolated. There are neighbors nearby and you will be located only ten minutes from Interstate I-10 ( at Speedway) and 12 minutes to downtown Tucson and the University of Arizona. There you will find museums as well as both upscale and funky craft stores to explore at your leisure. You can enter “Via Mallorca” into MapQuest and see where our house is located.
Vacation Rental Features
- Amenities
- Air Conditioning
- Washer: In unit
- Dryer: In unit
- Linens Provided
- Garage: Room for one car; other parking in driveway
- Covered Parking
- Off Street Parking
- Gas Fireplace
- Beds
- King Bed: In master bedroom
- Queen Bed (2) : One sofabed, one futon
- Twin/Single Bed (2) : In guest room
- Entertainment
- Cable/Satellite TV
- DVD
- CD Player
- Private Pool: Large pool overlooking Tucson valley below; large pool patio
- Kitchen
- Full Kitchen
- Cooking Utensils Provided
- Refrigerator
- Dishwasher
- Microwave
- Ice Maker
- Outdoor Features
- Gas/Electric BBQ Grill
- Deck/Patio: Both a pool patio and a partially shaded patio off the dining room are available. We eat most of our meals on the dining room patio.
- Balcony: Off the office/bedroom with the sofabed
- View/Location
- Mountain View: Our neighborhood backs up to the Tucson Mountains park; Our property overlooks the Tucson valley
- Communications
- Telephone
- Broadband Internet: A printer is also available. All you need is your own computer.
- Other Amenities
- Direct-TV service including local stations (satellite), CD/DVD player, Large Private Pool [maintained by pool service] (unheated but pool cover is available), Large pool patio with chairs & table, Separate large patio off dining room with partial shading [with chairs & table and gas grill (BBQ)], Additional smaller but shaded Porch off one bedroom, City Water & Sewer, Trash & Recycling Collection, Room for 1 car in garage, additional parking in driveway, Beds, 1 king, 2 singles, 1 queen sofabed, 1 queen futon, Three baths (3 showers, 1 tub), No Smoking inside, WARNING, The driveway is too steep to accomodate an RV or trailer
- Suitability
- Pet Friendly: Permission from the realty company is required. Owners must assume responsibility for any additional cleaning
- Smoking Not Allowed: Smokers are asked to smoke outside the rental unit
- Activities (on site and nearby)
- Golf
- Zoo/Wildlife Park
- Shopping
- Sightseeing
- Swimming
- Biking
- Hiking
- Live Theatre
- Museums
- Other Activities
- ON SITE, CLOSE BY, world-class golf resorts (Star Pass, past-PGA tournament site, daily fee available), Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Old Tucson movie studios, Saguaro Park Information Center, Gates Pass (great sunsets), Downtown Tucson -12 minutes away (Museums, Funky craft shops, University of Arizona, excellent restaurants), DAY TRIPS, Nogales (Mexico), Tombstone (OK Corral), Bisbee (Coal mines, artists), San Xavier mission church, Biosphere II Center, Kitt Peak National Observatory (telescopes)
Rate Details (In US Dollars)
WEEKLY RATES .. $1300/wk.
.. $2400/2 wks.
.. $3500/3 wks.
MONTHLY RATE .. $4400/mo.
May 1 through September 30 .. $1100/wk ...... $1950/2 wks
.. $2650/3 wks .. $3200/mo.
No Smoking inside.
Note: Until confirmed, rates are subject to change without notice.
Credit Cards Accepted:
Map & Owner's Profile
Year Purchased: 1999
Why the Owner Chose Gates Pass
To us, this is the most beautiful location in all of Tucson. When we bought this house we planned to retire immediately and live in it six months of the year and then live on the East Coast for the other six months. But we weren't ready to quit working so we had to return to Washington, and we decided to rent the house out with all the furnishings we had bought to enjoy ourselves! Having found this house, we certainly didn't want to give it up. As you can see from the pictures, it is a unique place! Now we can visit when we like, but still rent it out enough to pay the utility bills and taxes!
The Unique Benefits at this Home
We find that just about any season we are there, we can eat, read, and visit on our porches and patios and enjoy the outdoors and the great scenery. At the same time, we are close to downtown and can take in the cultural activities, shopping, and restaurants that Tucson offers. So much of Southern Arizona is "colored" in shades of brown (which we have had to learn to appreciate over time, as Easterners), but it is always nice to be able to return to our house in the middle of our little "oasis" of green, knowing that our yard's drip irrigation system that keeps it growing and green is "environmentally compatible."
All the animals here are "stuffed", but an interesting place to visit. For live animals, there's the Desert Museum, a short distance West of here, over Gates Pass.
Enjoy the sunset at Gates Pass and then drive (slowly !) down the pass and look back for spectacular views. A little further on are the Desert Museum ( a must visit), the Suguaro Park, and Old Tucson,
Owner's Map of Gates Pass
We are retired(or almost so)and had good careers in trade policy and in environmental protection respectively. We live in Washington, DC and try to travel as much as we can (as seen in this picture of us at the Forbidden City in Beijing). But we always find our Tucson house the most relaxing place to be.
Property Photos
- The house as seen from below - Tucson, AZ - Arizona Vacation Rental - Tucson Mountains Home
- Our large & deep pool overlooking the Tucson valley and Catalina mountains - Tucson, AZ - Arizona Vacation Rental - Tucson Mountains Home
- Back porch patio for reading and for meals outside (table not shown) - Tucson, AZ - Arizona Vacation Rental - Tucson Mountains Home
- The back porch patio is a great place to eat, even at night
- The pool patio (with table and chairs) is the second relaxing patio at the house
- The master bedroom ( ambiance are softer than camera shows)
- Dining Room (much warmer and friendly than this photo suggests!)
- Our Living Room with Direct TV, DVD, and comfortable seating for reading
- Our house as seen from above (note the shade trees)
- A view from yard (sharp hills and greenery like this are unusual for Tucson)
- The Tucson valley below, as seen from above house (pool view is almost as good)
- The Tucson Mountain Park begins a few thousand feet beyond the house
- Sunrise as seen from inside the house
- Back Patio (Eating and reading in either the shade or the sunshine)
- Guest Bedroom with two twin beds
- Couch/sofa bed in the large Office/Bedroom
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We loved everything about the house. The views, the decorating, the comfortable atmosphere. We had a very enjoyable week.
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Delightful court yards and large comfortable rooms.
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Alan Hughes , Abbots Langley, England
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Great place - loved it - lots of character and beauty. Nice open kitchen, good counter space. Spacious rooms.
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The view is fabulous as is the yard. Normally when we are in Tucson we stay with my sister, but if we come back with another couple again we certainly will contact you.
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