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South Mountains (Arizona) Coordinates: 33°20′0″N 112°3′45″W. South Mountain seen from Laveen, Arizona. The South Mountains (O'odham: Muhaḍagĭ Doʼag, Yavapai: Wi:ki'tiyeda, [1] Maricopa: Vii Kwxas), known locally as simply South Mountain, is a mountain range in central Arizona in south Phoenix, Arizona. The majority of the range is ...
Alamo Lake State Park: La Paz & Mohave: 4,900 2,000: 1,300 400: 1969: Features a remote reservoir on the Bill Williams River with premiere bass fishing and stargazing: Buckskin Mountain State Park: La Paz: 1,677 679: 420 130: 1967: Provides water recreation on the Colorado River in the Parker Valley: Catalina State Park: Pima: 5,493 2,223: ...
1,400 acres (570 ha) Average depth. 22 ft (6.7 m) Surface elevation. 5,980 ft (1,820 m) The Lyman Reservoir is a reservoir on the Little Colorado River located 17 miles (27 km) north of Springerville. It is the largest lake in the region. Lyman Lake State Park attracts anglers, as well as campers and water skiers year-round.
South Mountain Park preserves in a natural state a mountainous area of 16,283 acres (65.89 km 2) or approximately 25.5 sq mi (66 km 2) of native desert vegetation. Originally called Phoenix Mountain Park, it was formed in 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge sold its initial 13,000 acres (53 km 2) to the city of Phoenix for $17,000.
Verde River. The Verde River (Yavapai: Haka'he:la) is a major tributary of the Salt River in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is about 170 miles (270 km) long [4] and carries a mean flow of 602 cubic feet per second (17.0 m 3 /s) at its mouth. It is one of the largest perennial streams in Arizona. [4]
Oak Creek, a tributary of the Verde River, flows along the bottom of the canyon, and is one of the few perennial streams in the high desert region of northern Arizona. Oak Creek is largely responsible for carving the modern Oak Creek Canyon, although movement along the Oak Creek Fault, a 30-mile (48 km) long north–south normal fault line, is thought to have played a role as well.
The Bill Williams River is a 46.3-mile-long (74.5 km) [5] river in west-central Arizona where it, along with one of its tributaries, the Santa Maria River, form the boundary between Mohave County to the north and La Paz County to the south. [6] It is a major drainage westwards into the Colorado River of the Lower Colorado River Valley south of ...
Mount Wrightson from Madera Canyon. Mount Wrightson (O'odham: Ce:wi Duag[4]) is a 9,456-foot (2,882 m) peak in the Santa Rita Mountains within the Coronado National Forest, in southern Arizona, United States. It was named for William Wrightson, a miner and entrepreneur in the region killed by Apaches in the 1865 Battle of Fort Buchanan.