Full-Day
The Heart of Mesa
Arizona Museum of Natural History was voted "Best Hidden Secret" by The Arizona Republic. This "mini-Smithsonian" features Southwest folklore to full-size dinosaurs and Indian dwellings. Hands-on exhibits and the famous Arizona Highways archive photos.
The Mesa Historical Museum is located on the grounds of Mesa's oldest schoolhouse and showcases over 4,000 collectibles.
Downtown Main Street is a place to shop and stroll through a variety of specialty stores and have lunch at one of many charming restaurants.
The Mesa Arizona Temple Visitors Center is a noted landmark with beautiful gardens throughout the grounds.
Browse through national juried, themed exhibitions of contemporary art at the Mesa Arts Center.
Enjoy dinner and a Broadway show at the Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre.
Back to Nature Tour
At Park of the Canals you can see the canal remnants made by the ancient inhabitants of Mesa dating back to around 300 B.C.
The Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch provides a great opportunity to see some 200 beautiful and rare birds.
Located in beautiful Papago Park in Phoenix, the Desert Botanical Garden contains the world's largest collection of desert flora in an outdoor setting.
Desert Voyagers provides quality river tours on the lower Salt and lower Verde rivers. Enjoy beautiful rivers and learn about Arizona's desert ecology.
Hummer, ATV and Ranger tours available in the Sonoran desert.
Choose from a few exciting night adventures:
Star Gazing: Arizona State University's astrology professors will crate a wonderful evening of star gazing that will allow you to search the heavens.
Night Vision Jeep Tour: Evening Jeep tour with night vision goggles to see creatures of the night in their natural environment, the Arizona desert.
The Apache Trail and Superstition Mountains
Apache Jeep Tour provides two to four-hour tours through the Sonoran Desert and Superstition Mountains. View the spectacular desert wilderness and scenic beauty.
Get a taste of Arizona's mining history at Goldfield Ghost Town. Take a scenic railroad and mine tour and enjoy a variety of retail shops. Have lunch at the 1890s Mammoth Steakhouse and Saloon at Goldfield Ghost Town.
Get a taste of the old west at the last remaining stagecoach stop along the Apache Trail, Tortilla Flat.
Enjoy a relaxing 90-minute narrated nature cruise aboard the Dolly Steamboat. See the flora and fauna of the lower Sonoran desert at Canyon Lake, known as the "Junior Grand Canyon".
