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With so much natural beauty surrounding it, a visit to the Arizona Museum of Natural History is a sure bet for a highly educational and entertaining time. Considered one of the best museums in the state, this facility offers lots of dramatically designed and well-presented exhibits. Perhaps the most famous of these is “Dinosaur Mountain” which features several attention-getting devices to tell its prehistoric story. A constantly flowing 50-foot-high indoor waterfall is just another of this museum's many highlights.

Get an amazingly unique historical perspective of Mesa and its surrounding area when you book your spot on the Apache Trail Tour. The excursion features a rollicking jeep ride that moves along the rugged trail into the Superstition Mountains. The basic tour lasts about two hours but there are longer packages available that include gold panning and even full day adventures that allow you to spend more time in some of the area's most beautifully scenic landscapes.

Get the royal treatment on the golf course, even if you don't have all day to play when you tee off at the Royal Palms Golf Course. This challenging 9 hole course attracts players of every skill level and from every walk of life. You will see college kids, white collar executives and senior players all hitting the links to enjoy the high quality golf experience that Royal Palms is known for. The layout offers a successful game to those whose strategic thinking is above par, which makes sense, since the course is mixed with par 3's and 4's over the course of 1,542 yards of golf.

The eye-popping magic of viewing your favorite movie in the popular IMAX format is very much alive at the B & B Mesa Gateway 12. See current movies as well as special screenings that focus on space, nature and other natural phenomena.