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Glendale Travel Guide, Arizona

Glendale, AZ US - Overview

Glendale is a city located in Arizona, United States of America. Glendale presents itself as Arizona’s antique capital. Glendale has 218,812 inhabitants.

Some of the most admired residents of Glendale city are David Hernandez and Jordin Sparks (American idol winners), Stephanie Meyer (author of twilight series) and Eric Bischoff (former WWE RAW general manager).

Glendale records 80 degrees F in summer. It has the world’s largest air force training base and it is famous for its festivals like blues fest.

Glendale is abundant in education campuses like Glendale Community College, Arizona State University, Midwestern University of Medicine and Thunderbird School of global management for specializing in international management. Besides these world class universities Glendale has excess of schools including unified school districts: Dysart Unified School District, High school districts, and Phoenix Union High School District providing world class schooling to the residents.

The scenic drives of Glendale include Apache Trail loop, historic Route 66 and Oak Creek Canyon. The outdoor adventure of Glendale includes attractions like Arizona Indian ruins, Arizona National Parks, biking in Arizona, bird watching in Arizona, boating, camping, cross country skiing, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, house boating, rafting, kayaking, skydiving, snow skiing, water skiing, snow sledding and tubing in Arizona.

Glendale is abundant in hotels like “Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa” and “Residence Inn Phoenix Glendale” providing services like lukewarm showers, amazing dining facility and world class infrastructure. Smart, stylish and spacious rooms are major attractions of Glendale’s hotels.

This city has wonderful golf courses like 500 club golf course. It is abundant in antique shopping districts like the famous antique shop Catlin Court. Glendale is rich in historical and cultural sites like Deer Valley Rock Art Center, Bead Museum, Historic Saguaro Ranch, Katydid museum and Glendale Community College.The most famous entertainment and amusement sites of Glendale are Foothills SK8 Court Plaza: and Glendale Arena at Westgate City Center. Here one can taste delicious Thai food at very reasonable rates.

Most popular restaurants here are Restaurant 28 & Erawan offering food that satisfies not only the stomach but also the soul. Cerreta Candy Company offers the yummiest variety of sweets.

Another major attraction of Glendale is its stadiums made of alien technology and contemporary architecture, having pulsating sound system, seating arrangement and guaranteed clear views from all points like the famous university of phoenix stadium.

Top 10 things to do and see in Arizona are: Cabela’s outdoors mega store, indulge your inner parrot head at Westgate City Center, keep yourself busy shopping in the numerous shops and boutiques, have a taste of German style at Haus Murphy’s in downtown Glendale, maintain fitness by hitting trails at Thunderbird Conservation Park. Glendale is also famous for the snowball fight during the winter wonderland festival.

Glendale municipal airport offers services like enclosed hangar facilities, flight instructions, car rentals, aircraft sales and rentals, office leases, shaded or open tie-downs. The airports here are near entertainment venues like NHL, championship college football. A Glendale airport meets every need of the guests or residents like boosting business with easy air shipping.

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