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6201 North Oracle Road, Tucson, Arizona, 85704, United States
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This hotel shares the parking lot with a Village Inn Restaurant.
Oracle road is pretty central to getting around the North west end of Tucson. Rooms are comfortable for a very reasonable price. Clean and the staff is friendly
Unique Quality: Best inexpensive hotel that is not a "resort" in the NW of tucson.
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Where's the best place for snow play ie saucers etc for kids age 11,9,7,5 on Mt Lemmon?
This might help (scroll all the way down to "Tucson Snow Play Areas"). I read that the mountain is VERY popular and a certain amount of gridlock from all its adoring fans is not uncommon. Must be one fun place! :)
http://www.arizona-vacation-planner.com/arizona-snow-play.html
Yep, the sheriff's office closed the road up this past weekend due to overcrowding and, as we're expecting more snow tomorrow, I have a feeling that this weekend will be almost as bad.
Mount Lemmon's position as a sky island makes it so that there aren't many flat, meadow areas where sledding is safe. One of the best spots is in the middle of Summerhaven on the right side of the road. It's very, very popular though, so it gets really slick after a couple days of use and melting.
I usually go to around Rose Canyon Lake. If you walk down the road a bit (it's closed off during snow, so you can just sled on that) you'll find a lot more "virgin" snow and a few hills and places to sled down. However, you're around more trees there, so it gets a little more dangerous.
There are also a couple of spots around the Aspen Viewpoint and trailhead a few miles before Summerhaven. Those are also very popular though and relatively close to the highway so, again, it gets a little dangerous, especially with kids.
Not many places but that's one of the issues of having only one road up and a relatively limited amount of flat space on top of our mountain.
Enjoy though.
Vail schools probably are fine, but you should be aware that Arizona Schools in general are very poor. If you are coming from Europe or any metropolitan areas, the schools will seem horrible. Many people use "Charter" schools -- be careful, the quality of these schools is extremely variable -- or many people including those who are not religious choose to send their children to Roman Catholic parochial schools.
American cities I visited including Tucson look quite different than old European ones and they don't have a city center (centre), they have a downtown - usually it's located really down but not always hehe.
Don't look for numerous lovely, picturesque, small streets (usually closed to traffic) full of small shops oops... stores, cafes, restaurants with tables outside and with lovely yards.
Look for high buildings (skyscrapers), a few streets with buildings not quite as tall full of restaurants of various kinds (mainly American and Spanish/Mexican) located one by one (Congress Street) plus shopping mall and convention center somewhere close. It's just an American typical downtown - small in area but big in height usually.
Maybe it's more practical (like most things in the USA) but does it look more beautiful? I don't think so.
The Rincons Mountains could be considered the younger, overlooked cousin of the Catalinas. This is not to say that they're any younger in geologic age, but rather they're slightly smaller and less dramatic, but are much more isolated and desolate.
There are three ways into the Rincons:
The best way is to hike. The Douglas Spring Trail, starting from the end of Speedway Boulevard, takes you into the beautiful yucca-lined grassland representing the foothills of the Rincons. After about 6.5 miles, you hit the Douglas Spring campground and have the chance to continue to Rincon Peak. This a really nice trail to do as a long day hike (going all the way to the peak is an overnighter) and is not very crowded past two or three miles. Keep in mind that there is no water on the trail, except what you may find in the creeks.
You can also drive in on two different roads.
Redington Road starts paved from the end of Tanque Verde Road on the far eastern side of town past the horse ranches and cactus nurseries. It quickly becomes a windy, narrow, gravel and dirt road. Once you pass the more popular Tanque Verde Falls parking lots, you're in a very desolate part of the Rincons. You'll see ATVers, horseback riders, hunters and people just out there to shoot, but they'll taper off the further you go. At about 12 miles, you hit the Italian Spring and Arizona Trail. If you head south, you will eventually meet the Douglas Spring Trail mentioned above and can gain access into the heart of the Rincons. The road eventually heads back down into the desert and hits San Pedro Road at the village of Redington.
Like most other cities, Tucson does have some good bars off of its major bar strips.
Grant Road is one of the better ones, with bars strewn along for several miles:
The Kingfisher (between Tucson and Country Club) mainly serves as a high-end restaurant, but also has a popular, high-end bar mostly frequented by the hip, late 20's, early 30's set.
French Quarter (just east of Country Club) serves Louisiana style food, has live music (usually cover bands) on the weekends, and is a pretty decent bar. It's a little wilder than Kingfisher, but good all the same.
The Shelter (between Alvernon and Swan) has a strong 60's motif (not Tim Leary 60's, but rather JFK 60's), a good crowd, and is a good drinking spot on most nights. It's a small place, in a very interesting building, so it fills up quickly after 9pm Th-Sun. Very casual and very Tucson.
Wilmot/Tanque Verde:
During the day, it's mostly a business area, but at night, the strip between Speedway and Grant is a popular bar area. The big ones are the Cactus Moon (country music dancing, but also hip-hop with a very mixed crowd) and Sakura (sake bombs with live patio music on Fri/Sat), but there are several establishments close by. Monkey Business, a restaurant on Wilmot south of Broadway, is a good hang-out for after-work drinking. There are also two newer, more dance club places in the area: DV-8 on Speedway west of Wilmot and Ice (formerly City Limits) on Wilmot at Pima. The Kingfisher is a little snobby, although I don't think anything is official. Business casual level should be suitable.
This restaurant began as an eight stool, two table café in 1956 it has since expanded to accommodate its many customers. Although the food is of average quality, it is the best choice when visiting either Saguaro National Park East or Colossal Cave. The dining area has large glass windows that look out onto the desert. The owners of the restaurant have a feeding program for wildlife, and we enjoyed watching many birds including cardinals, gambles quail, and humming birds. We also saw a coyote and some rock squirrels as we ate our lunch
Best inexpensive hotel that is not a "resort" in the NW of tucson.
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