Kiwanis Recreation Center

We give extra props to this Tempe outdoor facility because of everything around it – tennis and volleyball courts and shaded picnic areas for starters. Located in the 125 acre Kiwanis Park, the rec center’s other amenities include indoor wave pool, fitness center, gymnasium, corporate ramada area and classrooms. Since almost all outdoor activities must […]

Margaret T. Hance Park

The unusual city park was built above the I-10 tunnel between downtown and uptown, a rare Phoenix instance of nature over traffic — in this case, literally. On-site: the Japanese Tea House and Friendship Garden, a half-acre co-creation of the City of Phoenix and its sister city of Himeji, Japan.