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  1. Body

    Aimed at local clientele, Body offers high-quality massages with fewer frills for less money ($80). Drop your kids at the supervised play room ($6 per hour) while you de-stress.

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  4. Encantado Resort

    Everything from ayurvedic treaments ($155 to $300) to acupuncture ($150) to crystal chakra balancing ($245) – oh, and traditional massage ($150) and facials ($165 to $225).

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  5. Sandia Peak Ski Park

    Sometimes the snow here is great, other times it's lame, so check before heading up. The ski area opens on summer weekends and holidays (June to September) for mountain bikers. You can rent a bike at the base facility ($48 with $650 deposit) or ride the chairlift to the top of the peak with your own bike ($10). Drive here via Scenic Byway 536, or take the Sandia Peak Tramway (skis are allowed on the tram, but not bikes).

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    Adventuredome

    Enclosed by over 8000 pink-glass panes, Circus Circus’ indoor amusement park is packed with thrills. Must-rides include the double-loop, double-corkscrew Canyon Blaster and the Sling Shot tower ride that packs a whopping four Gs of acceleration. Older kids get a rock-climbing wall, bungee-jumping area, mini golf and 4D special-effect ‘ridefilms.’ Clowns perform free shows throughout the day.

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  7. Ten Thousand Waves

    This gorgeous Japanese spa offers a host of attractive public and private outdoor soaking tubs, kitted out in a smooth Zen style with cold plunges and saunas. A host of treatments – from prenatal, hot stone and Thai massages to herbal wraps – are offered. Massages start at $99.

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  8. Verde Canyon Railroad

    About 4 miles northwest of Cottonwood on SR 260 (Main St, then Broadway), Clarkdale was a company town built in 1914 to process ore from the mines in nearby Jerome. Today it’s best known as the terminus of the Verde Canyon Railroad. Vintage FP7 engines pull climate-­controlled passenger cars on ­leisurely four-hour narrated round-trips into the splendid canyon north of Cottonwood Pass, traveling through roadless wilderness with views of red-tinged rock cliffs, riparian areas, Native American sites, wildlife and, from December to April, bald eagles. The midpoint is Perkinsville, a remote ranch where scenes from How the West Was Won were filmed; the train returns the…

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  10. Xanterra

    Park tours are run by Xanterra, which has information desks at Bright Angel, Maswik and Yavapai Lodges. Various daily bus tours (tickets from $20) are offered.

    Due to erosion concerns, the NPS has limited inner-canyon mule rides to those traveling all the way to Phantom Ranch. Rather than going below the rim, three-hour day trips ($119) now take riders along the rim, through the ponderosa, piñon and juniper forest to the Abyss overlook. Overnight trips (one/two people $482/850) and two-night trips (one/two people $701/1170) follow the Bright Angel Trail to the river, travel east on the River Trail and cross the river on the Kaibab Suspension Bridge. Riders spend the night…

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    Tempe Town Lake Boat Rentals

    Rents watercraft at Tempe Town Lake.

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