Sky & Swim · AZ
The Valley of the Sun runs on pool weather nine months a year — and the rooftop ones trade the resort sprawl for a real view: downtown Phoenix one way, Camelback Mountain the other.
3 picks · Downtown Phoenix & Scottsdale
Skip the ground-level resort sprawl — these three put you on a roof with a real view and water warm enough to use most of the year.
A 3rd-floor rooftop pool at the Lustre garden, open to a sweeping downtown Phoenix skyline with cabanas and the Eden bar alongside. Downtown's most reliable rooftop swim, and the one that reads least like a resort.
The Outrider rooftop delivers the one view Scottsdale visitors come for: Camelback Mountain, dead ahead, from a pool that faces it square on. The sunsets are the reason to book.
A rooftop pool and sun terrace looking over Tempe and ASU's stadium — the Valley's East Side value pick, swimmable and well-served, with the Sun Devil skyline for company.