📍 Arizona Falls

About the venue

Arizona Falls is a free public park and working hydroelectric plant on the Arizona Canal in Phoenix's Arcadia neighborhood. The 20-foot waterfall was created during canal construction in 1883; Phoenix's first hydroelectric plant was built here in 1902, shut down in 1950, and restored in 2003. Visitors can cross a pedestrian footbridge to a viewing platform, walk canal-side trails, and view public art with poetry by Arizona's first poet laureate sandblasted into the concrete.