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Day trips, seasons, game nights: what Phoenix does when it is not at the table. Written by the people who do the thing, and every piece ends at a restaurant from The List.
$8A Tonto Daily Pass, good 24 hours, for every Salt River site and Saguaro Lake. Trout below the dam from late fall to spring, yellow bass all year, the $37 licence. Day tripThirty-one miles from downtown, the Salt River comes out of the bottom of Saguaro Lake cold enough for rainbow trout in a saguaro canyon, and the state stocks it from late fall through spring.
By Ray Dodson · September 12, 2026