Arizona 2011 Official Visitor's Guide - (Page 56)

BestBets TUCSON & SOUTHERN ARIZONA Golf Resort, municipal, target, traditional— Southern Arizona has golf courses to suit every play style and wallet. In Tucson, the city-run courses are the best bargains, while Tom Fazio’s two Ventana Canyon layouts offer spectacular desert vistas. The area’s courses also span the time and celebrity spectrum. Half a century ago, crooner Bing Crosby was one of the investors in the Tubac Golf Resort, in the lush Santa Cruz River Valley, while a recent addition to the local golf scene, The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Dove Mountain, hosts the Accenture Match Play C h a m p i o n s h i p, a m e g a purse event that draws the game’s top talent. NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE Pit houses near Tucson date back some 4,000 years and the petroglyphs in Saguaro National Park were likely etched around AD 1200. Tucson’s Arizona State Museum explores the history of Southwest native settlements, while the Amerind Foundation Museum near Dragoon showcases a high-quality selection of American Indian artifacts. In Sells, the tribal capital of the vast Tohono O’odham reservation stretching across Southwest Arizona, the Desert Rain Café uses traditional native ingredients in contemporary dishes. The nearby Tohono O’odham Cultural Center & Museum carries some of the tribe’s finely coiled and decorated baskets, but the visitors center at Kitt Peak National Observatory, which leases its lofty acreage from the tribe, has the best selection. m Ventana Canyon’s Canyon Course leads you through breathtaking desert vistas. The 50,OSouthwest STEVE LAMBESIS www.visitTucson.org http://www.visitTucson.org

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