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with cookouts. Although reservations are not always required, they're a good idea. You
can also opt to stay at a guest ranch and do as much riding as your muscles can stand.
Pusch Ridge Stables,
13700 N. Oracle Rd. (
&
520/825-1664;
www.puschridge
stables.com), is adjacent to Catalina State Park and Coronado National Forest. Rates are
$35 for 1 hour, $55 for 2 hours, and $45 for a sunset ride.
Over on the east side of Tucson, there's
Spanish Trail Outfitters
(
&
520/749-0167;
www.spanishtrailoutfitters.com), which leads rides into the foothills of the Santa Cat-
alina Mountains off Sabino Canyon Road. Rates are $35 for a 1-hour ride, $55 for a
2-hour or sunset ride.
WILDFLOWER
VIEWING
Bloom time varies from year to year, but April and May
are good times to view native wildflowers in the Tucson area. While the crowns of white
blossoms worn by saguaro cactuses are among the most visible blooms in the area, other
cactuses are far more colorful.
Saguaro National Park
(p. 375) and
Sabino Canyon
(p. 356) are among the best local spots to see saguaros, other cactus species, and various
wildflowers in bloom. If you feel like heading farther afield, the wildflower displays at
Picacho Peak State Park
(p. 463), between Tucson and Casa Grande, are the most
impressive in the state.
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SPECTATOR SPORTS
BASEBALL
The
Colorado Rockies
(
&
800/388-ROCK
[7625] or 520/327-9467)
pitch spring-training camp in March at Hi Corbett Field, 3400 E. Camino Campestre,
in Reid Park (at Randolph Way and E. Broadway). Tickets are $4 to $17. The
Arizona
Diamondbacks
have their spring-training camps and exhibition games at Tucson Elec-
tric Park, 2500 E. Ajo Way (
&
866/672-1343
or 520/434-1367; www.kinosportscomplex.
com), on the south side of the city near the airport. Tickets range from $5 to $25.
Tucson Electric Park is also where you can watch the
Tucson Sidewinders
(
&
520/
434-1021;
www.tucsonsidewinders.com), the AAA affiliate team of the Arizona Dia-
mondbacks. The season runs May through early September; tickets are $6 to $9.
GOLF TOURNAMENTS
The
World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play
Championship
(
&
866/942-2672;
www.pgatour.com), Tucson's main PGA tourna-
ment, is held in late February at the Gallery Golf Club at Dove Mountain. Daily tickets
are $25 to $45.
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DAY SPAS
If you'd prefer a massage to a round on the links, consider spending a few hours at a spa.
While full-service health spas can cost $400 to $500 or more per day, for under $100
you can avail yourself of a spa treatment or two (massages, facials, seaweed wraps, salt
scrubs, and the like) and maybe even get to spend the day lounging by the pool at some
exclusive resort. Spas are also great places (for both men and women) to while away an
afternoon if you couldn't get a tee time at that golf course you wanted to play or if it
happens to be raining.
The
Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa
, at the Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa, 3666
E. Sunrise Dr. (
&
520/742-7866;
www.reddoorspas.com), focuses on skin-care services,
but there are plenty of body wraps and massages available as well. With a 50-minute
