Goodyear is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is a suburban community in the southwest portion of metropolitan Phoenix and is in the Phoenix metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 65,275.
Goodyear is a city of relaxed sophistication with a rich, rewarding quality of life with great dining and shopping and tremendous community spirit. Goodyear features more than 188 square miles of plains, rivers, spring training games, great golf, and miles of scenic mountain hiking in the beautiful Estrella Mountains.
Estrella Mountain Regional Park comprises almost 20,000 acres, most of which is still pristine desert. The developed area of the Park contains 8 major mixed use trails (hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding) of more than 33 miles, a 9.5 mile competitive track, campgrounds, two baseball fields and a large horse staging area.
White Tank Mountain Regional Park is the largest in the County system covering 30,000 acres. The Park features extensive campgrounds, eleven major trails and a ten mile competitive track. The barrier-free Waterfall Trail, though only one mile in length, is the most visited trail in the system, featuring trail-side petroglyphs, varied desert scenery and plants and a seasonal waterfall.
The Bible Museum, the world's largest collection of antique bibles, is located in the Grand Lobby of the Hampton Inn and Suites Hotel at 2000 N. Litchfield Road in Goodyear.
The Museum has hundreds of bibles dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries as well as a 900-year-old Biblical Hebrew scroll with original Old Testament scriptures on a giant sheepskin scroll. The Bible Museum is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. |