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Tempe

Tempe & Mill Ave

ASU, the lake, Gammage, and a downtown that never fully sleeps

College town energy with a Frank Lloyd Wright auditorium at one end and a man-made lake at the other. Best walked at night.

Best day to go

Thursday or Friday evening

Eat

  • Cartel Roasting Co.
  • Ncounter
  • Culinary Dropout

Shop

  • Mill Ave shops
  • Tempe Marketplace

See

  • ASU Gammage
  • Tempe Town Lake
  • 'A' Mountain sunset
Walk it
  1. 1
    Tempe Town Lake

    Kayak rentals on the north shore

  2. 2
    ASU Gammage

    Tours when nothing's staged

  3. 3
    Mill & University

    Center of everything

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