Things To Do in Arizona
Arizona has so much to offer! Here you'll find links to parks, recreation, indoor, outdoor, museums, tours, points of interest, shopping, dining, dancing and nightlife, and all kinds of fun stuff! The Phoenix Metro Area offers the most urban attractions, but the rest of the state is an outdoor adventure just waiting for you to explore!
Some of the most popular tourist attractions are just as popular for the locals! Spring Training just finished up, and summer is just around the corner!! Memorial Day, warm sunshine, and summer cookouts are coming up quick! Tucson's Mt. Lemon is beautiful right now, and so is Oak Creek Canyon. Tombstone is always popular, as is the grand Canyon!
It's warming up, and the weather is gorgeous! Get outside and visit some of these attractions, or there's plenty of other choices, or make up your own adventure!
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Experience the 4th Dimension on July 5 What is the nature of time? How do dreams and reality connect? OK, these questions might be a bit deep for a long holiday weekend. Or maybe not, the Founding Fathers dreamed of freedom and we experience the reality of that freedom every day. Either way, the folks at No Festival Required and Space 55 are [...] Official Start to Phoenix's Most Dangerous Weather It's bright and sunny and, of course, HOT in Phoenix today. Looking out the window, you wouldn't believe that today marks the official start of Arizona's monsoon season. Monsoon season is not usually so straightforward. In past years, residents have been glued to the weather news, waiting for the dew point to reach 55 for three [...] Are You Feeling Lucky? June 13th is a Friday. This Friday, to be exact. But before you hunker down in hopes of avoiding the curse of Friday the Thirteenth, you might want to consider trying to turn the luck around with a trip to the Arizona Museum of Natural History. It was inevitable that one of the Night at the [...] Five Freebies for Memorial Day Weekend High fuel prices have many people sticking close to home this holiday weekend. Controlling costs doesn't mean you have to stay at home, however. Here are five free events taking place in the Valley that are definitely worth more than the price of admission: Avenue of the Arts - Start the weekend off right with the [...] See the Feathered Dinosaur Fossils for Yourself Six years ago a fossil of a 130 million-year-old creature with four wings and superbly preserved feathers was discovered in a stone quarry in China. Paleontologists had never seen anything like it. They aren't even sure how to reconstruct the fossils for an accurate depiction of the creature. On Tuesday, February 26, 2008, NOVA, the highest [...] Meet A Real Rock 'N' Roll Beetle It's comforting to think we know all the creatures, great and small, that we share the Earth with. The truth is, new creatures are being discovered and identified around the world all the time. They just usually aren't introduced at rock concerts. On January 25, 2008, Arizona State University (ASU) entomologist and professor in the School [...] Another Phoenix Photo Op for Nature Lovers Wildlife photographer Bruce Tucker is hosting two wildlife photography seminars at Mesa Public Libraries in January and February 2008. Attendees will hear how this noted nature photographer got many incredible shots which have graced the pages of Arizona Highways Magazine, Southwest Sportsman, Bird World and Reptile World magazines. He will also share his techniques for [...] Arizona Through the Lens of David Muench If your image of Arizona is countless strip malls interspersed with numerous golf courses, expensive destination resorts and endless suburbs filled with cookie-cutter houses, you have never seen Arizona through the lens of photographer David Muench. The Arizona he sees is a complex world of stone and water, air and light, almost totally devoid of people. [...] The Valley's Christmas Pudding Tradition What would the holidays be without Christmas pudding? It's not just the edible version that's a tradition in Phoenix, although it does have a role. The Valley's Christmas Pudding tradition is a star-studded charity affair hosted by rocker and restaurateur Alice Cooper. The 7th annual Christmas Pudding festivities begin at 7:30 p.m. tonight, December 15, at the [...] Fresh and Easy Opens in Chandler Britain's biggest retailer is open for business in Chandler, Arizona, just in time for holiday cooking. Visitors shouldn't expect to see the familiar Tesco name and logo, however, the company is opening stores around the Valley under the Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market brand with a distinctive green and white color scheme. "We believe the Greater [...]
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