Fountain Hills

We went to the "world famous fountain" in Fountain Hills outside of Scottsdale. It shoots off at the top of the hour every hour and we arrived just in time to see it. Pretty spectacular.

Here's what Wikipedia says about the fountain:

The eponymous fountain was built in 1970 by Robert P McCulloch... The fountain sprays water for about 15 minutes every hour between 9am and 9pm. The plume rises from a concrete water-lily sculpture in the center of a large man-made lake. The fountain, driven by three 600 horsepower (450 kW) turbine pumps, sprays water at a rate of 7000 gallons per minute through an 18-inch nozzle. With all three pumps and under ideal conditions, the fountain reaches 560 feet (170 m) in height, though in normal operation only two of the pumps are used, with a fountain height of around 300 feet (91 m) feet. When built, it was the world's tallest fountain and held that record for over a decade