text: Last weekend was the first time I would visited Papago Park after living here years It was a holiday weekend and the park was packed with families out of town guests and daily hikers My friend and I did not get a chance to hike on the Holeintherock because it was covered with people We hiked around the back side of the Desert Botanical Gardens which is beautiful and hiked up to the pyramid tomb of Arizonas first Governor George WP Hunt From Hunts tomb you can see parts of the Phoenix Zoo I saw Giraffes slowly moving to the feeding platform to enjoy treats Giraffes were not something I expected to see on a Holiday weekend Very cool Papago Park is beautiful and truly and oasis in the middle of the desert I will certainly not wait another years to visit again