This warm, sunny playground where the desert meets blue water attracts fishermen and desert explorers during the cooler months and the water sports set the rest of the year. From Grand Canyon to Yuma, Arizona's River Country is awash in fun. Providing the flavor of the Old West are the mining towns of Tombstone and Bisbee, and the Padre Kino missions. This heart of the state rises from high desert to rolling grassland to piney mountains with ranches and cowboys scattered about. History and prehistory live here at the territorial capital of Prescott, mining ghost town of Jerome and anc ient ruins of the Verde Valley.
Climate varies with the elevation, and it's comfortable somewhere in the Central Territory all year.
Payson, Show Low, and Springerville are the gateways to this lush highland region which offers lovely summer hiking, fishing, and relaxing cool country, plus a winter-sports wonderland.