Phoenix, Arizona is where you'll find hot air balloon tours, the Desert Botanical Garden, a variety of fascinating museums, and a vibrant food scene.Guest: Sarah Doyle, DIrector of Communication, Visit PhoenixMust-Do's:Desert Botanical Garden: Offers the world's finest collection of arid plants from deserts of the world in a unique outdoor setting. The Garden has more than 50,000 desert plants on display throughout five thematic trails that illustrate topics such as conservation, desert living, plants and people of the Sonoran Desert, and desert wildflowers. The garden often features unique art installations such as the current Desert Pulse exhibit.Heard Museum: One of the most prominent tributes to Indigenous culture and history in Arizona, the Heard Museum is known around the world for having a vast and high-quality collection of southwest Indigenous people's art, history, artifacts and more. Musical Instrument Museum (MIM): The largest of its kind, the Musical Instrument Museum is a collection of 15,000 instruments from more than 200 countries, including several modern-day artifacts on display including real props, instruments, and other historical items from musical icons such as Elvis, Johnny Cash and Roberta Flack.Hot Air Balloons: Hot air balloon tours are a surely unique way to tour the desert landscape of Arizona with services such as Hot Air Expeditions and Rainbow Ryders offering sky-high, birds eye views of Greater Phoenix.Phoenix Art Museum: Situated in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, the Phoenix Art Museum is the largest art museum in the southwest. Annually, over 300,000 visitors explore its exhibitions, alongside a vast collection exceeding 20,000 pieces that include American, Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern and contemporary art, as well as fashion design. o Accessibility to the art has always been at the forefront of the museum's mission with initiatives like Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays. Visitors have the option to make a small donation if they wish, allowing them to explore the entire museum. This event occurs every Wednesday evening and helps ensure that access to the arts is available to all, regardless of financial barriers.Arizona Science Center: Located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona Science Center features more than 300 hands-on exhibits, a revitalized state-of-the-art Cosm planetarium, a five-story giant-screen theater, live demonstrations, traveling exhibitions and exciting science programs for people of all ages.The Arizona Boardwalk Scottsdale is home to eight attractions including the Odysey Aquarium and Butterfly Wonderland. The OdySea Voyager, “the world’s only rotating aquarium experience,” features shark waters, sea turtle reef and open ocean exhibits. The Butterfly Wonderland is one of the largest butterfly conservatories in North America, providing a rainforest experience unique to Arizona’s climate. Some of the new and coming soon exhibits at Arizona Boardwalk are UFO Experience and Museum of Illusions.Papago Park: Hiking on the iconic Phoenix mountains is also an ideal outdoor activity for all, with trails fit for anyone's experience level including the iconic Hole-in-the-Rock hike at Papago Park. Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West: Scottsdale’s only National Historic Landmark, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West, immerses you in the world of the Desert Laboratory, where Frank Lloyd Wright and his apprentices lived and advanced architecture.Roosevelt Row is downtown Phoenix’s walkable arts district, home to art galleries, restaurants, bars and boutique shops in a landscape dotted by colorful street art. Popular events in the neighborhood include the monthly First Fridays Art Walk and annual festivities such as M3F Music Festival, Phoestivus, the Pie Social and more. What's New:Dorrance DOME: Arizona Science Center recently opened its reimagined Dorrance DOME in partnership with leading immersive tech company Cosm in October 2025. The planetarium is the most technologically advanced in all North America, featuring an 18-meter diameter, CX System LED dome display with 8K+ resolution and 100x the brightness of most planetarium projection domes using Cosm’s CX System.Revel Surf at Cannon Beach opened in December 2024 as a 37-acre entertainment center and includes 500,000 square feet of restaurants, retail shops, a 17-foot cliff-diving lagoon, a KTR Action Sports playground, a skate park, volleyball, and smashball courts, and a beach themed splash pad. The centerpiece of the park is the 4.5-acre water park, Revel Surf, which has a lagoon that produces waves in various shapes and sizes. The 650,000-gallon Unity Surf Pool generates stationary surfing waves.Cactus League Spring Training: Greater Phoenix is home to ten stadiums and 15 MLB teams, including Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, and Colorado Rockies, providing fans an up-close experience with their favorite players. The teams play almost 200 games across ...
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