Located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, the Arizona Science Center is a fantastic place for kids and adults to get up close and personal with science and technology. The Center contains four levels of exciting hands-on exhibits, a state-of-the-art planetarium and a five-story high IMAX® theater. It’s a great place to take the family after Christmas [...]

Looking for Haunted Houses and spooky spots to celebrate Halloween? Phoenix has five fantastic locations where the screams never stop! Arizona Scream Park What scares you the most? The Arizona Scream Park knows the answer — the senses…. ALL OF THEM. Horror High will hit each and every one of those senses in the most [...]

In November 1974, two young cavers, Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts, were exploring the limestone hills at the base of the Whetstone Mountains in Arizona. In the bottom of a sinkhole they found a narrow crack leading into the hillside. Warm, moist air flowed out, signaling the existence of a cave. After several hours of [...]

For more than 1,000 years, the Hohokam peoples occupied the land that would become Phoenix and The Valley of the Sun. These amazing people created 135 miles of irrigation canals, growing crops and building a great civilization. Their irrigation channels were eventually modernized and adapted by several companies in Phoenix to continue carrying water to [...]

Arizona has a turbulent geologic past — covered by large inland seas on several occasions, uplifted, stretched, squeezed, uplifted again, rocked by thousands of volcanic explosions, weathered and worn. Thanks to these titanic forces, it also has a huge diversity of minerals found in few other places on Earth. In particular, the state of Arizona [...]

The Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona calls itself “Arizona’s Most Western Museum” and after a visit to the museum you’ll agree. Located on historic Frontier Street in downtown Wickenburg the Desert Caballeros Western Museum features two levels of authentic western art, Native American arts, crafts and artifacts along with rocks and minerals, dioramas, [...]

Out of Africa Wildlife Park allows you to experience the wilds of Africa in the heart of Arizona. See lions, tigers, giraffes, elephants, rhinos and more on 100 acres of wilderness at the base of the Mingus Mountain range in Camp Verde, Arizona. The park is owned and operated by a husband and wife team, [...]

Imagine a cowboy, seated on his horse at the end of a long day. Together, they stand on a ridge, overlooking the valley below. The sun setting beyond the mountains silhouettes them. Near the pair, also in silhouette, is a tall cactus with a couple of arms raised to the sky. The cactus is a [...]

The Hotel San Carlos in Phoenix, Arizona is considered one of the top haunted hotels in the United States and on a recent Saturday night my family and I took a tour of the Hotel San Carlos with Ghosts of Phoenix to see for ourselves. The Hotel San Carlos, designed in the Renaissance Revival style, [...]

Long before the Grand Canyon was a national park; before cars and air travel, adventurers boarded the Grand Canyon Railway. The train made its first journey to the South Rim in 1901. Guests no longer had to bounce over rutted gravel paths aboard the stagecoach from Flagstaff, but could travel to the canyon in comfort. [...]