ARIZONA WHITE MOUNTAINS / WELCOME

Stretching over Arizona’s Mogollon Rim and towering White Mountain region, two of the state’s most scenic counties offer friendly small towns and world-class recreational amenities. Gila and Navajo counties share a centralized location in the state, drawing new residents, vacationers, and seasonal visitors to breathtaking landscapes and unspoiled wilderness. Boasting the world’s largest Ponderosa Pine forest, Gila County is the “second route” to Sedona, Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon and the gateway to the hauntingly beauty “Indian Country” and Monument Valley. Just a panoramic drive from Metropolitan Phoenix along Highway 87, the leading community of Payson serves as a thriving center of commerce and the Rim Country gateway.

Although Holbrook is the seat of government for Navajo County, the White Mountain region claims the town of Show Low as its commercial hub. Other friendly towns in this alpine wonderland include the sister communities of Heber-Overgaard and the incorporated town of Lakeside-Pinetop. Covering over six million acres, Navajo County is Arizona’s fourth largest. At the same time, more than 66 percent of this land is preserved in Indian reservations. State and federal government holdings total another 15 percent, and individual or corporate ownership accounts for 18 percent. The county borders extend north through the Navajo and Hopi reservations to the Utah state line, south to the White Mountains and the Apache Reservation, and along the Mogollon Rim.