Heritage & Science Park

Nicely preserved houses, and the park is beautiful to walk around. The houses have been repurposed to serve as offices and restaurants. While the other houses have been redesigned as a museum and store.

Beautiful area with turn of the century homes and new buildings well. We attended a festival that was spread out pice the entire square and beyond. Perfect setting for this type of event.

One of my favorite areas to take photos at downtown! They keep the landscape well maintained.

I was here a few weeks ago for the Taste of Japan festival. It was 15 bucks for tickets and had a lot of booths. I had an amazing time. I got there 10 minutes before gates and there was a bit of a line. But around noon it got SUPER busy and lines for food took about 25 minutes. ALSO I was told they don't validate parking, so it costs 30 bucks for the day.

The Highlight of Heritage Square is the Rosson House. But you can only see it with a tour. Right now the participation of the really worth seeing tour is limited to 6 persons! So make sure, you come early enough to book a later tour, if it is booked out. The house from 1894 is really a jewel and our guide was funny and told us a lot of interesting stories. Don't miss that one out!

There's off-street parking or you can park in the shaded Heritage Garage which has an accessible side entrance leading out right to the park. The park itself has a wide paved walkway, and it features the Arizona Science Center and the historic Rosson house. There's also a few small shops and restaurants including a pizza spot. The restrooms were hidden but they were under the pavilion next to the Rosson house; I believe the restrooms close at 5:00 everyday. There's not really much of a park atmosphere either. Besides the manicured grass and some antique wagon I spotted outside, it was mostly just buildings. It takes about 15-20 minutes to take your time to walk around the outside walkways.

For us it's always interesting to see these old houses and get a glimpse into how people lived. The tour was about an hour with a knowledgeable guide who answered our questions with ease. My favorite was the dress form. That was a first for me and I appreciated the up close view.

So to be upfront with this. It is a wonderful place to spend your evening, it is a great place great fun and great activities. The reason why I am giving it a one is because the parking. It has some public parking that comes right onto the square. . My family and I came before new years eve. And there was several prices. It's 0 if you were there for less a hour. There's another price that if it's a special event or a event going on its 12. We came in and supposedly we had to validate the ticket(Not like machines couldn't do it) , the time. There are no instructions on how to validate your ticket. We assume that the way you do validate are through the shops. Which we still had no way to validate it since most of the shops are closed. This entire process could easily be circumvented if you just put the time on the ticket. So we had to pay 12 dollars,this definitely soured the experience.