This came up on TripAdvisor as the #2 thing to do in Phoenix. If that's the case I feel sorry for Phoenix! Lol. I appreciate nature and love looking at trees and flowers but cacti just don't do it for me. If you are a Chase Private client you can get admission for yourself and 2 people for free, so luckily we didn't have to pay. I don't think it's worth the $22 admission fee unless you really want to see a bunch of cacti or maybe come at night for the lights. I didn't stick around to see the night show because I was dying of the heat. Plus to top it off I got all these prickly little red things stuck in my hand that hurt like hell. I'm not sure how that happened because I didn't touch anything and I'm not stupid enough to to run my hand along a cactus. I had to go to first aid to have them take it off and it still hurts. It happened to someone else in my group so it wasn't just me. That probably isn't something to worry about though...those type of things just seem to happen to me. FML