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Arizona Center
Shopping, dining, and entertainment are what make the Arizona Center a
"must see" downtown marketplace. Shopping is made simple at the
marketplace with over 50 specialty shops and carts. Each of the
nine-full service restaurants feature al fresco dining. After sunset,
popular nightclubs offer country/western dancing, sing-along piano bar,
and a sports bar with more than 50 big screen TV's. For maximum comfort
the state's largest computerized misting system, keeps the temperature
10 degrees cooler throughout the Arizona Center.
Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion
Designed specifically for musical performances, the facility has hosted
most of the nation's top entertainers as well as some of the best
outdoor concerts. On a summer night, patrons can come out to enjoy the
entertainment comfortably with a specially designed cooling system that
combines air conditioning with fans. Come out with your towels and lawn
chairs and groove to the music.
Camelback
Mountain
Distinguished by its sheer red cliffs, the Camelback Mountain and Echo
Canyon Recreation area is the city's most prominent landmark. This
75.8-acre park featuring the Praying Monk Rock formation and the famed
camel's silhouette, is a popular area for hiking and climbing. Rising
1,300 feet to the summit the Echo Canyon Trail reverberates the majestic
beauty found within the Sonoran Desert. While making your way along the
trails, you will encounter some of the most colorful plants and vivid
wildlife to inhabit this region.
The Herberger Theater Center
And one hour prior to center performances
Located in downtown Phoenix, The Herberger Theater Center divided into
two theaters, one seating 815, the other holding 350. Whether your
agenda includes the theater or the ballet, the Herberger Theater
Center's Center Stage is the home to the Arizona Theatre Company, and
Ballet Arizona. Stage West, the center's second theater, provides a more
intimate performance with the likes of Actors Theatre of Phoenix,
Arizona Theatre Company, Childsplay and Centre Dance Ensemble. Also a
variety of visiting dance troupes, orchestras and plays are presented
year-round. The Hereberger Theater Center caters to young and old,
always bringing the stage alive with each of its performances.
Patriots Square Park
The heart of downtown is adorned with two and a half acres of bountiful
grass, shade providing trees and benches, a performing arts stage, and
food kiosks. This area comprises Patriots Square Park, a popular site
for city celebrations as well as quaint lunches in the park. In addition
to the aesthetic appeal of Patriots Square Park, it serves as a cover
for a large underground parking garage
Phoenix Symphony Hall and Terrace
The Phoenix Symphony Hall and Symphony Hall Terrace are home to the
Phoenix Symphony and the Arizona Opera. Symphony Hall has hosted
innumerable Theatre and musical events. It is at Symphony hall where top
performers and touring shows perform. While a variety of festivals and
specials events grace the outside Symphony Terrace.
Pueblo Grand Museum and Cultural Park
The Pueblo Grand Museum and Cultural Park is the only National Historic
Landmark in the city of Phoenix. This is the kind of place that appeals
to everyone in that it is not only a museum, but also a Native -American
archaeological site. This archaeology site includes a Hohokam culture
ruin. The ruin was once the site of a thriving indigenous chief city.
After learning of their ingenuity in adapting to desert life, the site
draws on a feeling of mystery as to why a civilization of superb farmers
would abandon their home.
Ak-Chin Him-Dak (Eco-Museum)
Located 40 miles south of downtown Phoenix, the Ak-Chin Him-Dak Museum
is known as the "museum with out walls". Assembled by the Ak-Chin tribe
the museum stands a part from most in that the tribal members themselves
have been the ones to conduct excavations, catalogue artifacts, and
document their own oral history.
America West
Arena
Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Coyotes, the Arizona Rattlers, Phoenix Mercury,
and the Arizona Sandsharks all call America West Arena home. The one
million square-foot, 20,000-seat multipurpose America West Arena hosts
more than 180 events a year. This sports / concert arena electrifies
Phoenix by bringing enthusiasm and excitement downtown.
Mystery Castle
Over a period of 18 years, one man built this 8,000 square-foot stone
and sand castle. Constructed by Boyce Luther Gulley for his daughter,
Mary Lou the castle features 18 furnished rooms with Southwestern
Antiques, 13 fireplaces, a cantilevered stairway, parapets, many
charming little nooks and crannies and a chapel. Visit the castle and be
prepared to be whisked away into a Southwestern fairytale.
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Orpheum Theatre
Built in 1929, this elaborate Spanish Baroque style remains as the last
historic theater in downtown Phoenix. Although it retains its original
architectural and historical identity, renovations have transformed the
theater into a technically-modern events venue. The Orpheum's stage is
filled with an array of performing groups, from local, regional and
national touring productions to performance companies and nonprofit
performing arts group.
Papagao Park / Hole-In-The-Rock
Papago Park facilities include lagoon, desert hills and rugged
mountains, a golf course, museums, picnic areas, fishing, and hiking.
The Hole-In-The-Rock landmark is a great hit with the kids. Papago Park
serves as a great place to sit back, relax and enjoy the sites that
surround you.
Phoenix Art Museum
The Phoenix Art Museum is credited as being the largest visual arts
museum in the Southwest. This museum specializes in contemporary
Southwestern art, but also has other collections that cover North
American art in general, sculpture, photography, 14th century fashion
and decorative objects, exhibition of Renaissance work, the famous
Throne Miniature Rooms historic interiors. The museum has expanded from
its traditional exhibitions, and now offers a wide range of exhibitions
throughout its 65,000 square feet of gallery space. Tours Available.
Phoenix Zoo
Take a leisurely drive through desert rock formation to the Phoenix Zoo,
located in a section of the Papago Park. So, after a picnic in the park,
come and visit the thousands of wild beasts, and endangered animals that
roam here. A 125 acre zoo is home to more than 1,300 mammals, birds, and
reptiles. The zoo features rare Sumatran tigers, Tropical Flights
Aviary, African Savannah, Arizona Trail exhibit, all with native animals
in naturalistic exhibitions. Plan to spend the entire day visiting the
zoo's exhibits. From the children's petting zoo to the zoo's exhibit of
things that go "boo!" in the Sonoran Desert night, there isn't one
exhibit worth missing!
Heard Museum
In 1929 Dwight B. and Mai Bartlett Heard founded The Heard Museum as a
private, non-profit museum to house their personal collection of
artifacts and art. The focus of the museum resides on the cultures of
the Southwest. Tracing the history of the region from 15,000BC to the
present, it includes everything from prehistoric to contemporary. The
museum's best-known collection features a large number of Hopi Kachina
Dolls. The appreciation and respect for the arts and lifestyles of
Southwest Native American culture is promoted as the evolving philosophy
of the Heard. Especially oriented toward children, the museum has a
hands-on exhibit called "Old Ways, New Ways", which focuses on the
Southwest Zuni, Northwest Coast Tsimshiam and the Great Plains Kiowa.
The Heard museum holds over 32,000 ethnographic objects and contemporary
work of art, 10 galleries, a new auditorium, education center, and an
indoor/outdoor cafe.
Historic Heritage Square
Heritage Square represents the Victorian root from which Phoenix
originated in the 1860's. A Victorian complex in the heart of downtown.
Heritage Square is a refreshing site among the relatively young city.
Historical city park has eight turn-of-the-century houses, including the
restored 1895 Victorian Rosson House. . The Farmer's Market presenting
everything from fresh produce to other fine goods, fills the street of
the square every Thursday. The available guided walking tours will wind
you through the historical buildings, museums, restaurants and gift
shops that encompass the remaining residential structures from the
original townsite of Phoenix.
Encanto Park & Recreation Area
Spanning over 220-acres, Encanto Park is the city's largest flatland
park. Offering a perfect spot for family cookouts, Encanto Park
facilities includes picnic areas, a lagoon, boat house, swimming pool,
nature trail, urban fishing, two golf courses, softball diamonds,
basketball - tennis courts, and the KiddieLand/Enchanted Island
Amusement Park. Visitors can rent canoes and paddle boats and joining
the fish and ducks out on the lagoon or toss a Frisbee throughout the
park's grassy areas. A perfect place to relax and spend a weekend having
fun in the sun.
Botanical Desert Gardens
Housing half of all the variety of cactus in the world, the Desert
Botanical Garden includes 150 acres of plants from the world's deserts.
Founded 1937, this non-profit museum illustrates the beauty of over a
thousand plant species adapted for the arid landscape. Sponsoring
programs in research, plant conservation, and environmental education
the garden emphasizes harmony with the desert by displaying not only
vivacious plant life, but by also incorporating exhibits that depict the
relationship between modern day cities and the desert. Self-guided
nature walk, public lectures, Cactus Show.
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