Cave Creek Cave Creek was established as a mining camp in the 1870s after the discovery of gold. The town remains proud of its colorful history and Wild West image. Cave Creek is home to a number of Western dining establishments, saloons and boutiques selling antiques and Native American crafts. Local attractions includes the Cave Creek Museum of History. Chloride Chloride got its name from the type of silver ore discovered there in the 1860s.
Chloride is close to the Lake Mohave portions of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area .
Locals celebrate their colorful history during the Old Miners Day, held each year in June. Murals 30 feet high, painted in 1967 by Roy Purcell, and petroglyphs left by early Indian cultures can be viewed at the base of the Cerbat Mountains, about 1.3 miles east of Chloride. Cottonwood Cottonwood is a retail and services center located about 50 miles south of Flagstaff in the picturesque Verde Valley. In 1874, soldiers from Camp Verde were stationed at an adobe house where Cottonwood stands today. Nearby attractions include Tuzigoot National Monument , Montezuma Castle National Monument and the historic mining town of Jerome.