Tuesday, February 16, 2010

New Tour: March 12, 2010

Here's a tour bargain!

Affinity Group Tours is conducting a March 12, 2010 tour that will go from Tempe to Besh-Ba-Gowah and Boyce Thompson Arboretum.

There is a special price of $96/person for Arizona Historical Society members with a current membership card. The price is $110/person for non-AHS members.

The tour will depart from the AHS Museum at Papago Park, 1300 N. College Avenue in Tempe at 8:00 a.m. and return at 5:00 p.m. The reservations deadline for the tour is Friday, March 5, 2010.

Besh-Ba-Gowah Archaeological Park near Globe, Arizona is one of the largest single-site archaeological collections in the southwest and one of the most significant finds of Southwest archaeology. The Archaeological Park preserves the remains of a 300-room pueblo inhabited by the Salado Indians from 1225-1400 A.D. Next, the tour group will visit Boyce Thompson Arboretum near Superior, Arizona for a picnic lunch and guided tour. The Smith Interpretive Center was built in 1925 of locally quarried stone, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Arboretum includes the Heritage Rose Garden, Cactus Garden, Herb Garden, Eucalyptus Forest and large Demonstration Garden.

Tour includes transportation with professional driver, admissions, professional tour guide, picnic lunch, and chilled, bottled water. For more information, contact Connie Cornelius at Affinity Group Tours: -- Telephone: 888-561-8976 Email:
connie@affinitygrouptours.com.

A tour flyer is on the AHS website at www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org/UserFiles/PDF/news_events/Besh-Ba-Gowah2.pdf . Tour details can also be found online at www.affinitygrouptours.com/tourselections.html .

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