McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park. Scottsdale is known across the country for its parks, and none is more popular than McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park. With train rides throughout the park, historic exhibits, superb picnic and playground facilities, McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park is an entertainment and educational delight for people of all ages. Encompassing 30 centrally located acres at the southeast corner of Scottsdale and Indian Bend roads, its a one of a kind experience.

Montezuma Castle National Monument It's not a castle and Montezuma was never here. Nestled into a limestone recess high above the flood plain of Beaver Creek in the Verde Valley stands one of the best preserved cliff dwellings in North America. The five-story, 20-room cliff dwelling served as a "high-rise apartment building" for prehistoric Sinagua Indians over 600 years ago. Early settlers to the area assumed that the imposing structure was associated with the Aztec emperor Montezuma, but the castle was abandoned almost a century before Montezuma was born.