About PrescottAZ4U
Having an old fashion downtown complete with Courthouse Square, beautiful trees and grassy lawns, there are ample dining and “adult refreshment” establishments like the historic Palace Saloon, a real swinging-door saloon right out of the Old West! Have an “adult beverage” on the same wooden bar Wyatt and Virgil Earp and their pal Doc Holliday enjoyed!
Modern shopping, local and chain dining, 5 different colleges including the highly acclaimed. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The Yavapai Apache reservation is nearby and this tiny tribe has two casinos for those who like to play the games.
I will focus on points of interest and attractions that can be found in and around our town and hope this info can be of assistance for a future visit or even for relocating here.
December 31, 2009 at 11:14 PM |
Good start. Can’t wait for more.
December 31, 2009 at 11:23 PM |
Just started.
January 6, 2010 at 5:45 PM |
Cool idea for a blog, Tom!
Can’t wait to see more.
January 7, 2010 at 1:31 AM |
Will be adding things soon. Thanks for looking Pat!
September 14, 2010 at 7:23 PM |
Hi there blogger, nice web design, really pretty. Is this custom drupal? How easy is it to change the color? Thanks so much, I hope to get an email.
October 14, 2010 at 2:50 PM |
Sorry for the delay. Just using one of WordPress’s open themes that allow custom features. I am not an html expert by any means.
Again, was out of town and some health issues in the immediate family.
January 7, 2011 at 7:55 PM |
looking to rent in a 55+community. Can you tell me how high approximately does the humdity get in the summer. i am asking this because of medical reasons. Thanks to anyone that can help.
January 8, 2011 at 6:48 AM |
Joanne,
Thank you so much for your inquiry, I hope I can be of help.
This winter has had 3 or 4 nights in the teens and the temperature in the day after those nights in the low 30′s. Currently we are having 30′s at night and 50′s to low 60′s in the day. Today’s local paper (http://prescottdailycourier.com/) shows the normal low as 21 and the high 42. In the 9 years we’ve lived here the most snow we’ve had is 12 inches, usually no more than once a season and the streets are usually clear the next day with the snow gone within 4 or 5 days.
Summers are 80′s and 90′s with a rare day or two over 100. Evenings cool to the 60′s and low 70′s. The “monsoon season” from mid July to September has the conditions for thunderstorm, sometimes strong, to occur in the afternoons. It can be “humid” just before a storm but my gauge seldom sees 50%. During short hot spells humidity can get into single digits. I would say the average runs in the 20’s though most of the summer. I have allergies and have had less problems here than the 34 years I lived in Southern California. We have 300+ days of sunshine and fresh air at our 5200′ altitude.
My wife is the real estate expert and has been helping several folks with rentals lately. She just helped a couple find the rental that met their need days before Christmas and another rental inquiry called last evening. I will forward your email to her and she will contact you as to the particulars of your request. You can browse her web site at “www.PrescottAZ4U.com” linked off our blog. We searched for the “perfect” place to retire for many years with our preference being the West; Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah. After many vacation spent in the size cities we wanted to live in, we chose Prescott and haven’t regretted a minute! I hope it can meet your needs as it has ours!
Thanks again for contacting us,
Tom and Margarette
July 18, 2011 at 10:27 AM |
Whiskey Row touted as top Urban Arizona site by AAA
File photo/The Daily Courier
Prescott’s Whiskey Row made the AAA list of top Urban Arizona sites.
File photo/The Daily Courier
The futuristic community of Arcosanti, designed to have a low impact on the environment, also made the AAA list of top Urban Arizona sites.
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Joanna Dodder Nellans
The Daily Courier
Prescott’s venerable Whiskey Row is the only downtown business area in Arizona included on a new AAA list of the top 25 urban places to visit.
AAA asked its Highroads magazine readers to help it come up with the top 100 things to do and see in Arizona, to celebrate the state’s February 2012 centennial.
The club split the top 100 sites into four categories that will run in four consecutive issues of its Highroads magazine: Quintessential Arizona, Urban Arizona, Historical Arizona and Festive Arizona. The second list just came out in the magazine’s July/August issue.
“Back in Prescott’s rip-roarin’ days, bars and saloons filled an entire block in the heart of downtown,” the Whiskey Row entry reads. “It was called Whiskey Row then and now, but gift shops and restaurants have replaced most of the original beer-and-booze dispensaries.
“However, a couple of the oldies still offer beer that lunges from the tap with a curse, and a dark atmosphere that conveys patrons back to that wild and wooly time of yore.”
Whiskey Row is consistently ranked in the Top 5 Prescott attractions when the Prescott Chamber of Commerce polls visitors, Chamber Director Dave Maurer said.
“I think it’s a significant part of our heritage,” he said.
Arcosanti also made the list of top Urban Arizona sites in the Highroads magazine. Located by Cordes Junction at the intersection of Interstate 17 and Highway 69, the futuristic city features solar power and tight-knit living to reduce its impact on the surrounding high desert. It is open to visitors and hosts numerous events throughout the year.
Sedona’s Chapel of the Cross, nestled in the midst of the famous Red Rocks, made the Urban Arizona list too.
Some of the winners are more generalized, such as “Museums.” Prescott’s Sharlot Hall Museum is one of only four museums specifically mentioned within this entry.
And in the winning entry called “Dining,” two of the eight restaurants specifically mentioned in the entry are located in Yavapai County: the Sweet Grace Restaurant and Emporium in Camp Verde, and the Rock Springs Café in Rock Springs.
Yavapai County also is represented in the 25 “Quintessential Arizona” winners in the May/June issue of Highroads.
Winners include Sedona/Oak Creek Canyon with its numerous popular tourist destinations.
Included under the winning “Indian Ruins” category are Tuzigoot and Montezuma Castle national monuments in the Verde Valley.
The magazine is available online at AAA.com/highroads.