As colorful streamers of light explode over Rawhide and dim into the night, a 34-year Scottsdale tradition will also be fading.

As colorful streamers of light explode over Rawhide and dim into the night, a 34-year Scottsdale tradition will also be fading.

Scottsdale, the self-proclaimed "West’s Most Western Town," will lose more of its claim to that name next year when the national Festival of the West leaves the city.

Scottsdale, the self-proclaimed "West’s Most Western Town," will lose more of its claim to that name next year when the national Festival of the West leaves the city.

Longtime Scottsdale residents are going to miss Rawhide Western Town and Steakhouse, but it’s the cast of Old West actors and actresses who will shed tears when they leave.

June 20, 2004

Three different mazes, a graveyard, a freak show and an axe murderer's home await visitors to The Nest Haunted House at Rawhide, opening Friday night.

Three different mazes, a graveyard, a freak show and an axe murderer's home await visitors to The Nest Haunted House at Rawhide, opening Friday night.

Three different mazes, a graveyard, a freak show and an axe murderer's home await visitors to The Nest Haunted House at Rawhide, opening Friday night.

Three different mazes, a graveyard, a freak show and an axe murderer's home await visitors to The Nest Haunted House at Rawhide, opening Friday night.