Editing Oro Valley, Arizona (section)

===Parks===
[[File:Oro Valley CDO Trail Bridge.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.0|alt=Photo shows a rust-colored truss footbridge with mountains in the right background.|Footbridge along the Cañada del Oro Trail]]
[[File:Oro Valley United Church.jpg|thumb|Oro Valley United Church with Pusch Ridge in the background]]
The oldest park in Oro Valley is James D. Kriegh Park (formerly Dennis Weaver Park); the park includes an Olympic-sized swimming pool, recreational fields, and racquetball courts. Other major parks in Oro Valley include Cañada del Oro Riverfront Park, which features tennis and basketball courts, recreational fields, walking trails, and connections to equestrian trails along the Cañada del Oro wash, and West Lambert Lane Park, a nature park with a number of hiking trails in Cañada Hills.

Naranja Park is the largest park with 213 acres in the middle of town. The park contains four multi-sport fields, a playground, a dog park, an archery range, and multiple walking trails. It is also home to the Sonoran Desert Flyers, an organization dedicated to radio control model aircraft.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nationalparktraveling.com/listing/naranja-park-in-oro-valley-arizona/# | title=Naranja Park in Oro Valley, Arizona | date=January 2019 }}</ref> The park recently underwent a $25 million expansion that added four new multi-sport fields, six pickleball courts, two basketball courts, a splash pad, a BMX track, and a skate park.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grand re-opening of Oro Valley's Naranja Park on May 18 |url=https://www.orovalleyaz.gov/Government/News/Grand-re-opening-of-Oro-Valley%E2%80%99s-Naranja-Park-on-May-18}}</ref>

Catalina State Park and the [[Coronado National Forest]] in the Santa Catalina Mountains form the eastern boundary of Oro Valley. Linda Vista Trail, located east of Oracle Road on Linda Vista Drive to the south of 1st Avenue, is a nature trail that provides views of Oro Valley, Pusch Ridge, and the surrounding vicinity. Honeybee Village and Steam Pump Ranch are historical park sites in Oro Valley that are managed and maintained by the Oro Valley Historical Society in cooperation with the governments of Oro Valley and Pima County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ovhistory.org/ovhistory_honey_bee_village.html|title=Oro Valley Historical Society Honey Bee Village|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505040708/http://www.ovhistory.org/ovhistory_honey_bee_village.html|archive-date=May 5, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ovhistory.org/ovhistory_steam_pump_ranch.html|title=Oro Valley Historical Society Steam Pump Ranch|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503120755/http://ovhistory.org/ovhistory_steam_pump_ranch.html|archive-date=May 3, 2015}}</ref>

Northwestern Oro Valley also includes [[La Cholla Airpark]], a private [[airport]] community founded in 1972. The airpark includes nearly 100 residential estates and a {{convert|4500|ft|m|adj=on}} air strip situated at the center of the community for member use.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pages.prodigy.net/lacholla |title= Troop 294 in Oro Valley Arizona|website=pages.prodigy.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811033722/http://pages.prodigy.net/lacholla |archive-date=August 11, 2010}}</ref>