Hitch up your wagons, because your clan's about to lay claim to one of the biggest prizes in the West: a day of family fun and bonding at the Pioneer Arizona Living History Museum. For $15, receive admission to the museum for a family of four, plus four beverages (regularly $30). Located conveniently off I-17 and Pioneer Road, this museum offers more than 90 acres of attractions in an authentic 1800s town with historically accurate reproductions of a blacksmith's shop, an 1890s dress shop, a town cemetery, a bandstand, and a community church. Original buildings include the Ashurst Cabin, childhood home of Arizona's first senator; The Phoenix Bakery; The Gordon School, where eight grades studied together; and The Opera House. With costumed interpreters dressed as lawmen, Victorian ladies, and cowboys, and cold sarsaparilla (or soda) to drink, this trip will make you feel like you've just won the West -- or at least your kids' thanks.

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