Area Guide
Key Attractions
- The Lakeside Spa
This full-service salon and spa features a cocktail of services, including facials, body wraps and treatments, and invigorating fitness classes to pamper your body and spirit. Call extension 5244 for details.
- Tennis
Join us for one of our many daily tennis activities for all ages and skill levels. Call extension 5244 for details.
- Window Walk Nature Trail
Stroll the resort's own ½ mile paved nature trail and learn the wonders of the Sonoran Desert. Over 200 signs line the trail and identify the plants and animals indigenous to the area. On your way around the trail, don't miss the 80-foot waterfall that flows into a babbling brook that joins the major water feature on the golf course. Finish the educational tour with a stop in our custom butterfly garden, complete with all the plants necessary for the full life cycle of a butterfly and a trickling water feature fit for our fluttering friends.
- Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Mineral Display
The legendary Arizona Sonora Desert Museum has loaned the resort a permanent display of the rocks, geodes and minerals that are natural to the Southern Arizona environment. Discover the geometric shapes, vivid colors and glistening textures of minerals like wulfenite, pyrite, copper and azurite.
- Sabino Canyon
Just minutes from the resort is an intricate trail system with adventures for all skill levels. Take a trip up to Seven Falls and enjoy the waterfalls or hike the Phoneline trail with breathtaking views of the city below.
- Mt. Lemmon and the SkyCenter
Within 45 minutes of the resort guests can drive or cycle up the 25-mile steep Catalina Highway and arrive at over 9,000 feet in elevation, where they'll be awed these lush green "sky islands" with evergreens that float above the desert landscapes below. Check out the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter and take a tour of their large-scale research telescope, or stop for a piece of pie at the famous Mt. Lemmon Café in Summerhaven. Be sure to ride the ski lift up to Ski Valley, whether the ground is covered in snow in the winter or blooming with grasses and wildflowers in the spring.
- Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum
Meet the animals native to the Sonoran Desert, including mountain lions, Gila monsters and prairie dogs and take in the beauty of a variety of cacti.