Papago Park’s gated roadways and parking areas vary in opening hours. Trails are open from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, visit the city’s Papago Park website.

What's more, the trail is just a half-mile from the Phoenix Zoo. Papago Park’s gated roadways and parking areas vary in opening hours, but are mostly open from sunrise until sunset or 7 p.m ...

Families wishing to reconnect with nature and cool down on the water need look no further than Papago Park and Tempe Town Lake.

It's 3.1 miles of crushed granite, with several concrete drainage support structures, slicing through a wide swath of the 1,500-acre Papago Park. In the end, it's worked out as a multiuse trail ...

The Desert Botanical Garden, an oasis nestled among the red rocks of Papago Park, turns 86 in February. The idea for a desert garden came from a small group of Valley-based advocates in the 1930s.