Welcome to Arizona Avenues!

Every fabulous American metropolis has its “Avenues” — signature streets lined with boutique shops, remarkable restaurants and quaint homes. In fact, great drives such as Michigan Avenue and Fifth Avenue define the very city they're located in. Arizona 's Avenues are equally charming, exciting and some say even intoxicating. We can prove it.

The Arizona Avenues boast 325 days of sunshine each year. February afternoons flirt with 80 degrees. They provoke your inner cowboy to ride the range at a world-renowned guest ranch and reawaken the urge to slurp ice cream mid-afternoon while shopping on a shaded street.

The area is also emerging as a professional sports mecca, with the nation's finest NHL hockey arena, two state-of-the-art Cactus League Spring Training ballparks, a world-class professional raceway and the new NFL football stadium that is heralded as the new standard of brilliant form and function in professional sports venues.

But it's not all for the pros. The Avenues' four regional parks boast stoic saguaros, premier playgrounds for outdoor sports and views of sunsets previously reserved only for postcards.

Arizona 's Avenues are also home to one of the 10 best antique shopping districts in the United States, as well as a regional shopping center.

Arizona 's Avenues envelop 13 unique communities and hold the title of the fastest growing area in Arizona . We're a progressive area, swelling with breathtaking residential and viable commercial development, but we don't forget that Arizona 's Avenues were once the Wild West.

Nationally recognized historic ranches-turned museums and mining attractions are testaments to our proud heritage. We're also a prestigious area, home to the only Smithsonian Institution affiliate in Greater Phoenix. Our art and specialty museums boast collections that will slow time. At least temporarily.

Our Avenues are everything that makes Arizona one of the most desirable places on earth. We're famous for convincing people to move to the Grand Canyon State. But we're not asking you to take that kind of plunge. Not yet. Just visit.