August Family Vacation to Arizona

amother

OP ↓

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 3:16 am

Going with family of kids, ages 3 till 16, to Arizona this month, for a few weeks. Staying in Scottsdale and Flagstaff.
Wanted an itinerary of places recommended to visit, taking into consideration the heat.
Thanks

amother

Ginger

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 7:34 am

In and around scottsdale, there are a lot of amazing museums.
Martins auto museum
Musical instrument museum
Heard museum
Natural history museum
Museum of illusions
Fire museum
Science museum
Phoenix art museum

Indoor amusement
KTR- great jumping place
Mavrix- bowling, laser tag
Makutus Island

Flagstaff-

Flagstaff extreme- ropes course, zipline
Snowbowl
Hiking
Lowell observatory

Not too far is the grand canyon, pine arizona Utah
Where there are all sort of outdoor activities

fmt4 ↓

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 7:54 am

Is there a reason why you chose Arizona ? This is the worst time to go. It can be unbearable.

fleetwood ↓

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 7:57 am

fmt4 wrote:

Is there a reason why you chose Arizona ? This is the worst time to go. It can be unbearable.

Was going to say the same. Grand canyon is unbearable in the summer.

amother

Daffodil

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 8:05 am

Don't go to Scottsdale in the summer. It's not hospitable to humans. It's unbearable there.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 5:17 pm

Is it to hot to go boating at Lake Canyon (in AZ) on a 9am boat ride?

amother

Wine

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 5:21 pm

fleetwood wrote:

Was going to say the same. Grand canyon is unbearable in the summer.

Not always I went and it was fine

amother

Glitter

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 5:24 pm

Drive through sedona on the way/up or down. You can stop in the town.

↑ fleetwood ↓

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 5:26 pm

amother Wine wrote:

Not always I went and it was fine

Good for you. I still stand by what I wrote.

↑ fmt4

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 5:27 pm

amother OP wrote:

Is it to hot to go boating at Lake Canyon (in AZ) on a 9am boat ride?

It’s 98 degrees at 9. By 11 it’s 106. Doesn’t sound enjoyable to me.

amother

DarkOrange ↓

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 5:30 pm

fmt4 wrote:

Is there a reason why you chose Arizona ? This is the worst time to go. It can be unbearable.

I will never get why people do this. I'm sitting in my bedroom in Phoenix. It's 80 degrees in my house even though my (brand new) a/c is set to 72. I can't walk 10 minutes in this heat without getting a migraine. Your kids can get actual burns from walking around outside without shoes or touching their car seat buckles. It never cools down, not even at night. I mean, you do you, but whyyyyyy?

(Our winters are beautiful!)

amother

↑ DarkOrange ↓

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 5:32 pm

amother OP wrote:

Is it to hot to go boating at Lake Canyon (in AZ) on a 9am boat ride?

It's too hot to do anything outdoors. Especially if your bodies aren't used to the heat. It is genuinely dangerous

↑ fleetwood

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 5:44 pm

amother DarkOrange wrote:

We always go in the winter. Skiing and grand Canyon ... awesome in January

amother

↑ DarkOrange

Fri, Aug 02 2024, 5:45 pm

fleetwood wrote:

We always go in the winter. Skiing and grand Canyon ... awesome in January

Yes! January is probably the best month to come!

Everyone who lives here desperately tries to get OUT during the summer. I will never understand why someone would pay to be here

amother

↑ OP ↓

Tue, Aug 06 2024, 5:57 pm

I'm trying to figure out, what do people do when they go with their (large) families to the grand canyon? What is there to do, besides for stare at the canyon.

Amarante

Tue, Aug 06 2024, 6:53 pm

amother OP wrote:

Is it to hot to go boating at Lake Canyon (in AZ) on a 9am boat ride?

parents were arrested in the death of their baby who they brought on a boat in similar climate. This was Lake Havasu in Arizona.

There is no way anyone would willingly be in Arizona during the summer. People stay indoors as much as possible and try to get everything done extremely early.

People escape from Arizona to California. They are called sunbirds as they are the opposite of people who escape cold climates in the winter who are called snow bird.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Tue, Aug 06 2024, 8:55 pm

Is going a boat in Tempe Town Lake doable now in the summer?
What is considered the best mall (indoor), in the Phoenix area?

amother

Blueberry ↓

Tue, Aug 06 2024, 9:21 pm

OP I think we’re all wondering the same thing; why did you choose to go to Arizona in august? There are so many places to go! Why there?

amother

↑ OP

Tue, Aug 06 2024, 9:43 pm

amother Blueberry wrote:

OP I think we’re all wondering the same thing; why did you choose to go to Arizona in august? There are so many places to go! Why there?

Besides Colorado, where can one go with a family to a vacation place, with minyan and kosher food, without terrible pritzus?

amother

Taupe ↓

Tue, Aug 06 2024, 9:54 pm

I think people go to Arizona in the summer because they can not possibly fathom what it means to be in an actual desert. It’s worse than a chamsin in Israel. Can be very dangerous. That’s so many of the houses have pools. They are a necessity.