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Tempe, AZ. - An outdoor lovers paradise

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Real Estate Agent with Realty Executives

Tempe Arizona is an amazing city that has a lot of really great outdoor activities. For outdoor enthusiasts, most activities are available year round. For instance, the average high temperature in January is 68 degrees while the average low temperature is 40 degrees. Yep, it is beautiful here!. 

The Tempe Town Lake area is a great asset to our community featuring boat rentals, kayaking, walking trails, grassy Tempe Beach Parkareas, a splash pad for kids and is a great place to watch the fireworks on the 4th of July! The lake has also played host to music festivals, the Way Out West Oktoberfest, the Arizona Ironman competition, the PF Chang's Rock n Roll Marathon, Arts Festivals, parades and the famous Insight Fiesta Bowl Block Party where you can spend New Year's Eve with 100,000 of your closest friends!

If hiking is your thing, enjoy Tempe's A-Mountain or the beautiful trails of Papago Park. Papago is a 296 acre park featuring softball fields, a lagoon, hiking and biking trails, natural desert areas, an archaeological site, and Overlooking Papago Parkpicnic verandas. While there, you might as well visit the Phoenix Zoo which is right next door and has been voted as "One of the Nations top 5 zoo's for Kids!"

The upcoming "Western Canal Project" begins this year and will add even more pedestrian trails to our awesome city. According to the City's web site, "The project will extend for six miles connecting parks, schools, and other destinations in Tempe. The project includes a path with lighting, landscaping and public art." A link to the map is here...
The path will link to Kiwanis Park, Stroud Park, Redden Park, Ken McDonald Golf Course, the Tempe YMCA and end near Arizona Mills Mall and the I-10 Freeway. This stretch of South Tempe offers MANY different activities. For instance, there is the Kiwanis park and activity center where you have a wave pool, a lake (for fishing), basketball, tennis, soccer fields, covered Ramada's for great gatherings and tons of grassy areas to play, relax or people watch! This really is an amazing park with tons of wonderful options. Along this trail is one of two public golf courses in Tempe. The Ken McDonald Golf Course(or "Kenny Mac" as many of us South Tempe residents affectionately refer to it as) is a fun place to enjoy a round of golf at very reasonable prices.

Arizona is THE place for baseball's Cactus league spring training. Baseball, hot dogs, refreshing beverages and sunny skies -there's nothing better than Spring Training games in Arizona. With the temperatures averaging between 75 and 49 you will find lots of people flocking to the local baseball stadiums.  Between February and March you will find 9 teams calling Arizona home. Tempe Diablo Stadium is the spring home to the Los Angeles Angeles. 

                                                                   Tempe Diablo Stadium, Spring Training

To Live, work and play, our great city is hard to beat! Tempe is very centrally located with easy access to our freeway systems and to the airport. Here, you will find some amazing housing opportunities, a great arts community, wonderful restaurants, great schools, lot's of different jobs, enthusiastic sports fans and a wonderful lifestyle in an amazingly convenient location that is close to many of the things our great state has to offer.

If you have any questions about the community of Tempe Arizona, please feel free to visit our web site at www.nickbastian.com or feel free to call us at 602-803-6425 or toll free at 1-888-343-6425.

 

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Nick Bastian is a Tempe real estate agent specializing in the South East Valley and can be reached at 602-803-6425

Nick also writes a "hyper-local" blog about the communities, events, businesses and homes near light rail in Phoenix, Tempe and in Mesa.
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Kathy Passarette
Creative Home Expressions - Mount Sinai, NY
L.I. Staging/Decorating

Nick ~ This is quite a bit of information you have put together!  I could use a 68 degree day, I think our high today was 40 (if that).

Jan 28, 2008 07:43 AM
Nick Bastian
Realty Executives - Tempe, AZ
Real Estate Agent - Tempe
Hi Kathy - Come on out.. You deserve a vacation! :-) Thanks for stopping by!
Jan 28, 2008 11:43 AM
Adam Waldman
Westcott Group Real Estate Company - Hauppauge, NY
Realtor - Long Island
NICK - There is certainly plenty to do in Tempe.  I would love to check out the Fiesta Bowl Block Party one day.  Thank you for sharing this information.
Jan 28, 2008 10:30 PM
Nick Bastian
Realty Executives - Tempe, AZ
Real Estate Agent - Tempe

Hi Adam. Thanks.. Come on out some time! :-)

With the Giants in town for the Super Bowl this week, we are going to be welcoming a ton of New Yorker's!

Jan 29, 2008 12:01 AM
Elizabeth Nieves
The Elizabeth Nieves Realty Group - Durham, NC
Bilingual Raleigh - Durham North Carolina Real Estate Team
What a beautiful place!! I can't wait to visit one day. GBU!!
Jan 29, 2008 12:56 PM
Mesa, Arizona Real Estate Mesa Arizona Realtor
Homes Arizona Real Estate LLC - Mesa, AZ
AzLadyInRed

Nick, great localism post. Love the photos, and lots always going on in Tempe. ;-)

Pepper

Jan 29, 2008 02:47 PM
Nick Bastian
Realty Executives - Tempe, AZ
Real Estate Agent - Tempe

Elizabeth.. Serious, you need to come for a visit! Would love to meet you guys!

Thanks Teri.. Always love to read your blog..

Jan 30, 2008 02:04 AM
Paul Slaybaugh
Homesmart - Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale, AZ Real Estate
Very well done, Nick.  Tempe has so much to offer, and you did a great job breaking down the high points.  I specifically have a lot of fond memories of old club soccer tournaments in Tempe Diablo Stadium.  You make an excellent tour guide, my friend.
Feb 01, 2008 11:02 AM
Nick Bastian
Realty Executives - Tempe, AZ
Real Estate Agent - Tempe
Thanks Paul.. I appreciate the nice comment.. Not only from a friend but from one with your amazing writing talents!
Feb 01, 2008 10:13 PM