Heritage & Science Park

I only walked through the houses. I did not go to the museum which seems oriented for children. The residential Heritage area is quite a small. I appreciate they have kept several of the houses in tact to give you an indication of how the pioneers settled into this region. I wanted to visit The Rosson House but the hours of visiting are really short and the list of days are also limited. My recommendation would be to make this part of larger downtown crawl.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

Beautifully restored home makes you feel like you stepped back into the Phoenix Victorian era. The tour guide was both knowledgeable and entertaining. It cost $9 with a student ID, $10 without. Completely worth it!! Make sure to walk around all the other cool buildings too!!