The canal feeds the Crosscut power plant - the only hydroelectric structure remaining in the Salt River Valley. Canal Park is located at McKellips Road and College Avenue. It is 40 acres enhanced with picnic and restroom facilities and a lake. Tempe Women's Club Park, located at College Avenue and Weber Drive, is a two-acre park and has picnic sites and play equipment. This 60-acre golf course has views of the Phoenix Zoo, Camelback Mountain and Papago Buttes.
Golf instruction is available.
One resident per foursome is required. Reservations for non-Tempe residents may be made two days in advance by phone only, beginning at 8 a.m. 37. The garden is centrally located in Papago Park off of Galvin Parkway. This living museum of desert plant life is one of the nation's only informal science centers dedicated to desert ecology and conservation. Learn about the 14,000 plants, cacti, succulents, trees and flowers that grace this garden and attract wildlife for visitor viewing.