Phoenix AZ Hotels

Phoenix AZ Hotels

Here are ideas of some traditional and non-traditional things you can see and do in Phoenix; attractions the city offers year round:

1. Schnepf Farms - Family entertainment farm. Offers a tour of an operating familyfarm with gardens and orchards, including a train ride, country store and bakery.
2. Arizona Science Center - Located in Heritage and Science Park in downtown Phoenix,the Center features a five-story giant-screen theater, over 300 hands-on exhibits,and a 200 seat digital planetarium.
3. Phoenix Zoo - Phoenix Zoo offers four distinctive trails: Arizona Trail, TropicsTrail, Discovery Trail and Africa Trail. Visit Harmony Farm to experience lifeon a working farm and see Desert Lives, showcasing the bighorn sheep and Arabian Oryx in natural desert environments.
4. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - The museum explores modern culture fromthe perspectives of art architecture and design. Adjacent to the Scottsdale Center for the Arts.
5. Phoenix Art Museum - The largest in the Southwest, the Museum features over 16,000 works in its collection of American, European, Asian, Latin American, Contemporary,and Western American art, and fashion design.
6. Heard Museum - The museum's 10 spacious exhibit galleries and beautiful outdoor courtyards feature outstanding traditional and contemporary Native American art
7. Fleischer Museum - Currently, the collection includes around three-hundred paintings.The museum also has a sky-lit sculpture court. The paintings in the Fleischer collection are primarily American Impressionism, California School and Russian and Soviet Realism tempered by Impressionism.
8. Deer Valley Rock Art Center - Public access to the Hedgpeth Hills petroglyphsite, to interpret the cultural expressions found here, and to be a center for rock art studies.
9. Enchanted Island Amusement Park - Nestled in the heart of Phoenix's Encanto Park,and surrounded by water complete with ducks, fish and pedal boats, this famous landmark is home to the 50-year-old Encanto Carousel, C. P. Huntington train and eight other great rides geared to the younger child.
10. Out of Africa Wildlife Park - Out of Africa is a garden-like setting that allows visitors to actually encounter the kingdom of the wild. The animals come to you in nine unrehearsed, educational programs everyday. There are no tricks, no training and no facades - everything is real
11. Champlin Fighter Aircraft Museum - World famous gathering of World War I, II,Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm fighter planes. Thousands of other bits of aviation memorabilia - weapons, flight gear, medals and oil paintings. More than 700 autographed photos paper the 'Hall of Aces'.
12. The Arizona Science Center - Located in Heritage and Science Park in downtown Phoenix, the Center features a five-story giant-screen theater, over 300 hands-on exhibits, and a 200 seat digital planetarium.
13. Rawhide Wild West Town - Rawhide offers western fun for the whole family. From train, stagecoach, hay wagon, jeep and horseback rides, to an 1880's carousel, gunfights in the streets and live musical entertainment seven days a week.