Kid-friendly places in Phoenix

City park with a playground and a splash pad, plus shade structures and restrooms.

City park with a playground, shade structures, restrooms and a grill and picnic area.

Breakfast and lunch spot with a splash pad for kids on the patio.

Cowboy steakhouse with a longhorn out front and a tin slide kids ride down to the tables.

Family-run pizza place open since 1980, where you build your own pizza, with wings, pasta and salads too.

Neighborhood park with a playground, shade structures and picnic tables.

Neighborhood park with a playground, shade structures and a picnic area.

Resort with a seven-acre water park, three eight-story slides, a wave pool and Wild Cat Springs for younger kids.

Resort with AquaRidge, a 140,000-square-foot water park with a lazy river and slides.

Sushi comes around on a conveyor belt, alongside ramen, udon and desserts.

A hands-on science museum with hundreds of exhibits to touch and test.

A big indoor play museum made for babies through about age 10.

Instruments from all over the world, and an Experience Gallery where kids get to play them.

A 125-acre zoo with splash areas for cooling off in the warmer months.