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VisitGoodyear.com; @CityOfGoodyear—Just 25 minutes from downtown Phoenix, Goodyear offers planners increasing opportunities for dining and leisure, with new restaurants, expanding retail, annual events, parks, miles of biking and hiking trails, and a majestic mountain landscape. According to VisitGoodyear.com, the city has more than 100 restaurants and seven different retail centers. The Goodyear Ballpark, home to spring training for MLB’s Cleveland Guardians and Cincinnati Reds, offers an offseason schedule of local, regional, and national tournaments and family-friendly events. The park has multiple rental spaces for functions.
Located in nearby Litchfield Park, The Wigwam historic resort has provided premier lodging since 1929. A newly completed multimillion-dollar renovation preserves its past with a fresh look and feel. The 331-room resort has three championship golf courses, a 26,000-square-foot spa, and 100,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor event spaces, including three ballrooms and 25 meeting rooms.
The 110-room Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix-Goodyear has 3,400 square feet of event space in three meeting rooms.