North Central Arizona

North Central Arizona is a geographical region of Arizona. It is in the Transition Zone between the Basin and Range province and the Colorado Plateau, and has some of the most rugged and scenic landscapes in Arizona.

As part of the southern Colorado Plateau (Mogollon Plateau) it has an average elevation of 4,000-5,000 feet.

Physiographic Features

  • Mogollon Rim
  • San Francisco Volcanic Field
  • Humphrey's Peak, the highest peak in Arizona at 12,633 feet.
  • Barringer Crater (aka: Meteor Crater)
  • Mormon Lake
  • Oak Creek Canyon
  • Verde Valley
  • Mingus Mountain, (Black Hills (Arizona))
  • Verde Rim
  • Red Rock Country; see Sedona and Village of Oak Creek, Arizona
  • Bradshaw Mountains
  • Granite Mountain (Arizona)
  • Little Colorado River
  • Fossil Creek Canyon

National Monuments:

  • Wupatki
  • Sunset Crater
  • Walnut Canyon
  • Montezuma Castle
  • Tuzigoot

Arizona State Parks

  • Riordan Mansion
  • Slide Rock
  • Red Rock
  • Dead Horse Ranch
  • Jerome
  • Fort Verde
  • Tonto Natural Bridge

Cities/Towns:

  • Williams, Arizona
  • Flagstaff, Arizona
  • Sedona, Arizona
  • Village of Oak Creek, Arizona
  • Jerome, Arizona
  • Ash Fork, Arizona
  • Paulden, Arizona
  • Chino Valley, Arizona
  • Prescott, Arizona
  • Humboldt, Arizona
  • Dewey, Arizona
  • Mayer, Arizona
  • Cordes Lakes, Arizona
  • Cottonwood, Arizona
  • Camp Verde, Arizona
  • Clarkdale, Arizona
  • Cornville, Arizona
  • Lake Montezuma, Arizona
  • Payson, Arizona
  • Strawberry, Arizona
  • Pine, Arizona
  • Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona
  • Show Low, Arizona
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  • Monument Valley
  • North Central Arizona
  • Northeast Arizona
  • Northern Arizona
  • Oak Creek Canyon
  • Phoenix Metropolitan Area
  • Safford area
  • San Francisco Volcanic Field
  • Sonoran Desert
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  • Verde Valley
  • White Mountains
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  • Apache
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  • Lake Havasu City
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  • Tempe
  • Tucson
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Famous quotes containing the words north, central and/or arizona:

    “The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes
    And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
    And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
    And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,
    And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)