Attention all once and future denizens of Flagstaff!
A group of my friends are going to be staying a while in Flagstaff as tourists. Which locations would you recommend as fun/must-see locales? (I think we can all benefit from the shared knowledge/nostalgia. Hey, we might even make a Knol…Meh.)
Mike and Devin – You’ll be glad to know that ResLife has a Facebook group for incoming freshmen. Funny stuff.
Here are my recommendations -
This list is far from complete and is in desperate need of comments.
The Booyor Honor Tour:
Tinsley Hall (44) – Freshmen year, Cowden Hall (38) – Sophomore year (the Year of the Shinai), Sechrist Hall (42) – Junior year (the RA year), and Cowden Hall again when Devin rescued me from Sechrist AND Tinsley in a daring ploy involving a wheelbarrow and a holocaust cloak senior year
Breakfast:
The Place (Mike and Rhonda’s)
Lunch:
Crystal Creek Sandwich Company
Dinner:
Wings at Granny’s Closet
Black Bart’s (employs mainly NAU choir performance majors for a rousing rustler review)
The Big City-type Stuff:
Target
Harkins
The Outdoors:
Oak Creek Canyon (driving from Flagstaff to Sedona using 89A)
Lava Tubes
Lowell Observatory
Snowbowl
Meteor Crater
Lake Mary/Mormon Lake (It’s a lake. Great for campfires and cookouts. Not too many laser shows, though.)
Sunset Crater
Walnut Canyon
What kind of friend would I be if I didn’t mention Tamara and Jason’s Places of the Heart, to give artists’ take on places/events of interest in the 86011. (Jason made the site, Tamara (who was in my honors classes and shared many a campus walk with me) is the curator.)
Any map errors we here at the bloggh attribute to Google error. I mean, who are we to give directions?
Semi-related posts:
best coffee anywhere: late for the train expresso, the downtown location.
best coffee house anywhere: macy’s, on beaver street
Bookmans is, in my mind, a definite place to visit. I’m also a fan of Oreganos, if only for dessert. I’m going to check with one of my friends to see if she can remember the directions to our favorite place in Sedona- we just referred to it as “the top of the world” so I’m not sure what the actual name is.
I’m actually going to forward that Facebook group to one of my friends online- she’s starting her first year at NAU in the fall. Amusingly enough, she recognized your name, Brian, as one of the other teachers at her school from when she was in eighth grade. That made me feel old.
The Cottage Place is the best dinner spot in town…and also the most expensive.
I would simply add that a walk in the quaint downtown is always good for the soul. Plenty of art and shopping to stroll around through for a morning or afternoon. Also the mall, unless things have changed since I was there, probably isn’t worth seeing. It’s… –quaint…too.
Thank you for the Flagstaff ideas. I LOVE how the activities match the personalities. (Mike, I’m assuming The Cottage was a ResLife or anniversary thing). Devin, I do want to know the ‘top of the world location’ and yes, we are indeed old.
Yeah, Julie Love told me about the Cottage Place and Sara and I spent our 2nd and 3rd anniversaries there.