I lived in the White Mountains for 23 years and my favorite place is Alpine Az & Lakeside. I lived on Woodland Road for 4 years, Lived in Show Low and built a home, winter is cold and I highly recommend if you live there to get a woodstove and cook with propane so when the electric goes out you have heat and can cook. If you build get a metal roof sloped so snow does not build up. I used truck tires on my vehicle but it you live offroad like I did you may need studded for ice hills. Always have a food supply incase you get snowed in.
Hi. I live in Scotland in the U.K. A friend lives in Phoenix and I have visited Arizona in 2020 and 2022 including Sedona, Jerome and Grand Canyon West. I love your content because it reminds me of all the beautiful places and diversity of towns and scenic countryside in the state. 🏴🇺🇸🏴🇺🇸
@@elainefarr3155 I was born in Cottonwood 75 yrs. ago. My maternal grandfather was the only barber there for 40 yrs. His father brought him and his older brother from Yugoslavia to America when he was only 16 yrs. old. He was never able to bring the rest of the family to America. My grandfather tried his hand at mining in Jerome, but said it was tough and dirty work, so he went to barber college in Cleveland, Ohio and then returned to Cottonwood. He was a avid hunter and I remember a string of rabbits hanging on one of his fence lines when we would often come to visit him and my grandmother. He shot a black bear in 1949 same year I was born, it always hung on his barber shop wall. When he retired he gave me the bear rug, which I had for more many rears until I gave it to my younger brother. My father moved to Cottonwood from Arkansas when he was 21 yrs. old. He went to get a hair cut and said there was a cute girl shining shoes. He said she looked pretty young, but stayed around long enough to marry my mom when she turned 19. They were married over 60 yrs.
@ that’s such wonderful memories! My stepdad owned a feed store here during that time, along with his bro-in-law Pat Patterson. I bet your Granddad knew them, it was such a small town back then. Tourism and Covid has brought a lot more people here the past 8-10 years, traffics worse. But I still love it here. I grew up on a ranch in Prescott, if you’ve ever been there
@@elainefarr3155 Yes, I have spent lots of time in Prescott, used to go over Mingus Mountain from Cottonwood into Prescott. My son and daughter went to summer camp along Senator Hwy. each year as they were growing up. My wife and I have contemplated move there since we have retired. One of my girl cousins was a nurse at the Veterans Hospital and retired from there. I have always been a cowboy at heart, wished I could have grown up on a ranch. The closest I got was raising calves for 4-H and FFA projects and managing a feedlot for 3 yrs, in Goodyear. Had to get a better paying job so I could actually buy and afford to feed my own horses. Spent 22 years in new product development for a major equine manufacturer.
Love Show Low Pinetop Lakeside. Sold my residence in a certain state and bought here. Just beautiful place. Respect the locals and leave your other states politics where you left them. This is a country loving community.
I must assume you moved from the peoples republic of Californification. you people ruined it here in Show Low area. STAY OFF YOUR PHONES, SAY GOOD MORNING ONCE IN AWHILE.
Nine months of winter and three months waiting for summer, so said my brothers family speaking of Eager. Cold wind and deep snow in the winter, they said. I recall visiting first week of June. The climate was magnificent with day temps of 85, and you had the companion of a nice breeze. It was a great place for "lazy-daisy-summer-days." I would lay my 12 yr old body down in the shady green grass and listen to the quake of the Aspen trees as the wind gust traveled through their branches above me. Next I got a surprise my first night. I was looking for blankets before dawn. They day temp was in the 80's, but the night time low fell to the upper 40's. Finally the crystal clear bubbly streams seemed everywhere in the region. True enough some do call it paradise.
My grandparents and dad have lived in Taylor since the 60s!! I will be inheriting the 1.8 acres with two mobile homes behind the Sonic. My sister and I used to play on the lot where Sonic is and buy taffy at the Whiting Brothers gas station on the corner. No traffic lights. No fast food. Definitely no Walmart. I love watching your videos. Like a trip to grandparents. Very nostalgic. Been everywhere many times. My sister and I always make a run to Jerome.
I lived in Springerville, and worked in Eager at the Southwest Saw Mill, My youngest son was born there. I still have relitives in Eager. I left in 1981 for Michigan.
@amvet5387 Absolutely! We keep Catron County red and a 2A sanctuary. The wicked witch is termed out. Someone has to hold the flag here. I am proud to have Eli Crane as a neighbor.😀
I live on the ocean , in Redwood Country in far Northern California. We welcome people from around the world here... Now that we are retired we travel in our little travel trailer once a year to Arizona. We've visited a lot of the places in this video. Sometimes in Feb ( Southern part ), or sometimes in May ( Northern part ). Everyone has always been warm and friendly. Never freaked out on us for having California plates. We stick to, and enjoy the smaller towns and countryside...Mogollon Rim/Payson area is one of our favorites. That Salt River Canyon area was beautiful.
Hi! You make excellent truthful cool videos, thank you! I've been following you for years and appreciate all the info as a Phoenician. I've made a lot of great "local" trips at your suggestions. Best regards my friend 🙏
I am a Greer and my great, great, great grandfather is Americus Vespucci Greer, who lived in Greer. His wife is buried in amity on the old John Wayne ranch.
I own a second home in Blue, Arizona. It's east of Alpine. We're really tucked back in here and love it. Now that I got Starlink, I can spend more time up here and work remotely.
@LivinginArizona Once or twice a year for the last 15 years. I usually base out of Lake Pleasant, and ride my motorcycle throughout the mountains of Central Arizona. Beautiful country. I try to make the run down the Devil's Highway from Springerville to Morenci, then on to Bisbee, when the weather cooperates.
Great video Jeff one of your best ones yet, me and my wife enjoy your videos of northern Arizona hope you bring back the banjo music that started your past video once again great video
It is so beautiful there, been several times up north, where I'm from, the state that is. We had a cabin up north for years, but then the wildfires started happening. It became hard to find insurance that would cover us, our other insurer dropped everyone. The job opportunities aren't there. On the weekends, during the Spring/Summer and anytime it snows, it is almost impossible to drive up there with all the traffic from the city. If an accident happens expect to wait hours on the road in traffic...some have even waited late into the night. The locals in the small towns up there start treating any outsiders and anyone from the city with contempt...not so friendly. During extreme droughts, and it happens a lot now days, they close everything down. No camping, and hardly ever any fires at the camp sites...so no smores for the little ones. We sold everything and moved. Between the violence in Phoenix, drug addicts everywhere, crime everywhere, heat, rent and home and the cost of everything else that went up...we sold everything and left.
that was a wonderful video,,so many areas i didnt even know existed in Arizona..i dont know about anyone else but id love to see a video tour around Verde valley,,Cottonwood,Clarksdale,,maybe village of Oak Creek,,or maybe Prescott valley,Chino Valley Williamson,,or any other small towns or nice places to live in Yavapai county...
This was a really quick trip you took. You hit the typical hot spots for tourist, no surprise there. I think you were not as realistic about the weather up on the rim. It can get hot, over 100 degrees, yes, but it does cool down after dark. And the wind, there are months where the wind blows so hard you are very limited in what you can do outside. If you go up after Labor Day, let's say the 3rd week of September, the crowds are mostly gone as the kids are back in school and the holiday crowds have headed back to the valley. Then you can experience quiet and cooler days.
This was a very interesting and pretty video. I visited a short portion of the White Mountains in 2015 while visiting my brother in Show Low. I loved the area. I had a daughter living in at Estrella Mountain in west Phoenix but unfortunately she moved to NC when her husband was transferred. I kind of had a back of the mind thought to get a mobile home up in one of those small towns as a part retirement home, but wife would never agree to move to small towns or rural areas. I enjoy your videos very much and am a subscriber.
Also my dad was born in Mesa. Rode horseback to school on Alma School Rd when it was a dirt road! He passed a 11:39 way recently at 93. My grandparents are buried in Mesa Cemetery
Wow..Looks so crowded compared to when my family lived there. We had little $$ so we spent our weekends traveling Northern Az. in our van. Unrecognizable in some places. (70's)
Only problem with Forest Lakes is you're driving an hour to either Payson or Show Low if you need any decent shopping. Although that may be part of the appeal for some.
It Pine Top best dinner restaurant is Mr ZEKES! Best breakfast restaurant is Darbys! I have tried them all. I go up there one week a month.year around. Best Mexican restaurant is Los corrals .
Interesting fact about Snowflake - named for the 2 main families from the area - the Snows and the Flakes (this, according to a Flake descendant I grew up with). We used to have a cabin in Forest Lakes. COOOOOLD WINTERS! And if you’re looking, check out Happy Jack if you want proximity to Flagstaff without the traffic hassles Love my home state.
I lived in Ganado AZ back in 1980. I back packed in Salt creek canyon, it was amazing. Sounds like there are restrictions now? I forget the name of the ski resort owned by the Apache tribe. That's where I learned to ski. Wonderful memories.
Coda: Pinetop and Lakeside were my vacation stomping grounds in the WMs as a kid...before it was 'built up'. Back then it was rinky-dink and comfortable.
We live in the Verde Valley, with lots of relatives in the White Mountain area. People are friendly, happy and down to earth there, mostly conservative. Don't be surprised to see people carrying a gun, its just normal here.
I live in Montana and have lived in Colorado. For some strange reason the feeling I get when traveling through the Arizona White Mountains area is of creepy desolation.
Please, do more small town videos. I'd really like to see some in depth coverage of what it's like to live in places like Springerville, Eagar, and Greer.
You forgot to show Alpine...It is a neat little town. My friend lived there for years and I loved to go there for a few weeks visit in the Summer. Good fishing in the lakes around the town..
I was just through that Forest Lakes area between Payson and Heber on my motorcycle a week ago. Expect long delays due to ongoing road constructions in 3 places.
Arizona is so different than i ever expected. My husband lied to me for years...theres nothing there..its not a good place😢😢 a few years ago i got my first smart phone. I found Arizona...i fell in love❤❤❤❤❤. Im 72..not sure if ill ever get to come there. Being a Florida girl..i really dont care for COLD..not sure how id do. MY FIRST VISIT TO YOUR CHANNEL.. SUBSCRIBED
My father had a nice place near Tonto Village Az. north of Payson Az. until a wild fire came through and burned 123,000 acres of forest around 1990. What is sad that if everybody could see all this area back in the 1960's and 1970's everybody would be amazed how beautiful the area was compared to now.
What he doesn't tell you is that water is at a high concern. For example, the town of Pine is in danger of having no water due to the overpopulation, same with Rio Verde. There's a hold on building in metro Phoenix due to water issues. You're limited in medical care in the white mountains and jobs are also very limited. Internet is crappy so working remote is hard even for Starlink. Sure, it's beautiful and people are drawn to the white mountains but the grass isnt always greener on the other side.
How is there a hold on building in Phoenix? They’re planning on building nearly 20,000 homes near the TSMC plant. Not to mention the zillion apartment buildings being built right now..and the resort near the football stadium. If someone is saying there’s a hold, they’re lying.
Been to the Show Low area. Mild summers? NOT! Temp was over 100 degrees everyday! Most of the area is dry desert!. Greer's elevation make it's the coolest area but very expensive. Other than pine trees in a few forest areas, there's not much green. Most of the towns mentioned in this video are dry desert towns. No one owns a lawnmower!
@rmo52 One month nesr Cocho, Show Low, St. Johns,. and other nearby towns, last July, looking at cheap off grid land. No rain, hight heat wave (100 degrees) everyday. Land was on remote treacherous dirt roads where no grass grew, and nothing probably would grow. Only Cocho had ground wells. All other towns have to have water delivered to tanks.
my wife and I moved from the greater Seattle area to Catalina, Az. a few years ago, and then from there to Amarillo, Tx. where we now live......I'm curious to know if you've ever explored the history and the area where the Power brothers had a famous shootout in 1918 with the sheriff's posse that went to arrest them for resisting the WW1 draft ?
Excellent video, Jeff! Your channel is probably my favorite. Absolutely love it. I think my biggest regret concerning our 7 years living in Arizona (before having to move out to the east coast) is not exploring more in the northern part of the state. Saw Sedona and Flagstaff but clearly there’s so much more waiting, which we’ll do when we move back out there (hopefully one of the days soon) for good!
It always surprises me when the White Mountains are described as being in northern Arizona. All you need to do is look at a map of Arizona and see they're not north at all. They look slightly in the southern half if anything. They're much more accurately described as being in East Central Arizona. I guess to some people anything north of Phoenix is northern Arizona.
With the on-going (permanent?) drought I don't think I'd live in forested areas or cities surrounded by forests. Remember the horrendous Wallow fire eastern Arizona had in 2011 - was the largest fire in Arizona's history.
I lived in the White Mountains for 23 years and my favorite place is Alpine Az & Lakeside. I lived on Woodland Road for 4 years, Lived in Show Low and built a home, winter is cold and I highly recommend if you live there to get a woodstove and cook with propane so when the electric goes out you have heat and can cook. If you build get a metal roof sloped so snow does not build up. I used truck tires on my vehicle but it you live offroad like I did you may need studded for ice hills. Always have a food supply incase you get snowed in.
Hi. I live in Scotland in the U.K. A friend lives in Phoenix and I have visited Arizona in 2020 and 2022 including Sedona, Jerome and Grand Canyon West. I love your content because it reminds me of all the beautiful places and diversity of towns and scenic countryside in the state. 🏴🇺🇸🏴🇺🇸
We live in Cottonwood, between Jerome and Sedona. So glad you enjoyed it here!
@@elainefarr3155 I was born in Cottonwood 75 yrs. ago. My maternal grandfather was the only barber there for 40 yrs. His father brought him and his older brother from Yugoslavia to America when he was only 16 yrs. old. He was never able to bring the rest of the family to America. My grandfather tried his hand at mining in Jerome, but said it was tough and dirty work, so he went to barber college in Cleveland, Ohio and then returned to Cottonwood. He was a avid hunter and I remember a string of rabbits hanging on one of his fence lines when we would often come to visit him and my grandmother. He shot a black bear in 1949 same year I was born, it always hung on his barber shop wall. When he retired he gave me the bear rug, which I had for more many rears until I gave it to my younger brother. My father moved to Cottonwood from Arkansas when he was 21 yrs. old. He went to get a hair cut and said there was a cute girl shining shoes. He said she looked pretty young, but stayed around long enough to marry my mom when she turned 19. They were married over 60 yrs.
@ that’s such wonderful memories! My stepdad owned a feed store here during that time, along with his bro-in-law Pat Patterson. I bet your Granddad knew them, it was such a small town back then. Tourism and Covid has brought a lot more people here the past 8-10 years, traffics worse. But I still love it here. I grew up on a ranch in Prescott, if you’ve ever been there
@@elainefarr3155 Yes, I have spent lots of time in Prescott, used to go over Mingus Mountain from Cottonwood into Prescott. My son and daughter went to summer camp along Senator Hwy. each year as they were growing up. My wife and I have contemplated move there since we have retired. One of my girl cousins was a nurse at the Veterans Hospital and retired from there. I have always been a cowboy at heart, wished I could have grown up on a ranch. The closest I got was raising calves for 4-H and FFA projects and managing a feedlot for 3 yrs, in Goodyear. Had to get a better paying job so I could actually buy and afford to feed my own horses. Spent 22 years in new product development for a major equine manufacturer.
I used to fish in the 60s and 70s at East Fork at Buffalo Crossing, fantastic fishing
Absolutely love Pine, Strawberry and Snowflake.
Love Show Low Pinetop Lakeside. Sold my residence in a certain state and bought here. Just beautiful place. Respect the locals and leave your other states politics where you left them. This is a country loving community.
Didn't have to name the state. If you know, you know, lol.
I must assume you moved from the peoples republic of Californification. you people ruined it here in Show Low area. STAY OFF YOUR PHONES, SAY GOOD MORNING ONCE IN AWHILE.
Nine months of winter and three months waiting for summer, so said my brothers family speaking of Eager. Cold wind and deep snow in the winter, they said. I recall visiting first week of June. The climate was magnificent with day temps of 85, and you had the companion of a nice breeze. It was a great place for "lazy-daisy-summer-days." I would lay my 12 yr old body down in the shady green grass and listen to the quake of the Aspen trees as the wind gust traveled through their branches above me. Next I got a surprise my first night. I was looking for blankets before dawn. They day temp was in the 80's, but the night time low fell to the upper 40's. Finally the crystal clear bubbly streams seemed everywhere in the region. True enough some do call it paradise.
Yes more Small Town videos
My grandparents and dad have lived in Taylor since the 60s!! I will be inheriting the 1.8 acres with two mobile homes behind the Sonic. My sister and I used to play on the lot where Sonic is and buy taffy at the Whiting Brothers gas station on the corner. No traffic lights. No fast food. Definitely no Walmart.
I love watching your videos. Like a trip to grandparents. Very nostalgic. Been everywhere many times. My sister and I always make a run to Jerome.
Rented a cabin in Greer for five or six years! Absolutely love the place!
The dog park in Show Low is great
I lived in Springerville, and worked in Eager at the Southwest Saw Mill, My youngest son was born there. I still have relitives in Eager. I left in 1981 for Michigan.
I'm your neighbor in Pie Town. I shop in Springerville.
@@Horsefingerandthetaintwrights I love pie town but hate your tyrant governor
@amvet5387 Absolutely! We keep Catron County red and a 2A sanctuary.
The wicked witch is termed out.
Someone has to hold the flag here. I am proud to have Eli Crane as a neighbor.😀
Love the fall colors and the forest
I live on the ocean , in Redwood Country in far Northern California. We welcome people from around the world here...
Now that we are retired we travel in our little travel trailer once a year to Arizona. We've visited a lot of the places in this video. Sometimes in Feb ( Southern part ), or sometimes in May ( Northern part ). Everyone has always been warm and friendly. Never freaked out on us for having California plates. We stick to, and enjoy the smaller towns and countryside...Mogollon Rim/Payson area is one of our favorites. That Salt River Canyon area was beautiful.
Yes more small town video's Alpine would be nice👍
My favorite part of AZ for sure. Had a cabin in Show Low before we left AZ
Absolutely love this now i have to plan a weekend road trip and highlighting small towns
Hi! You make excellent truthful cool videos, thank you! I've been following you for years and appreciate all the info as a Phoenician. I've made a lot of great "local" trips at your suggestions. Best regards my friend 🙏
No mention of Travis Walton from Snowflake. He was the subject of the "Fire in the Sky" movie about alien abduction.
Arizona is so beautiful, i really wish i could live there. You're very lucky to be an American and to live in such a beautiful state.
Watch what you wish for. Arizonians do not like visitors. And they hate anyone who moves from somewhere else.
@@traceytrotter9934Which is why I don’t go there and profit them. Horribly unfriendly, small minded.
I am a Greer and my great, great, great grandfather is Americus Vespucci Greer, who lived in Greer. His wife is buried in amity on the old John Wayne ranch.
Great Video, Yes more Small town Videos. Very Informative Thank you. ❤ Joy ❤️
I own a second home in Blue, Arizona. It's east of Alpine. We're really tucked back in here and love it. Now that I got Starlink, I can spend more time up here and work remotely.
Im from CenCal....BUTT...i have become a big fan of this area. The Salt River Canyon was a real surprise the first time.
Have you been there?
@LivinginArizona Once or twice a year for the last 15 years. I usually base out of Lake Pleasant, and ride my motorcycle throughout the mountains of Central Arizona. Beautiful country. I try to make the run down the Devil's Highway from Springerville to Morenci, then on to Bisbee, when the weather cooperates.
Great video Jeff one of your best ones yet, me and my wife enjoy your videos of northern Arizona hope you bring back the banjo music that started your past video once again great video
Shout out to the squirrel @6:29
We used to go camping at Big Lake and visit relatives in Heber.
Ya …..big lake a big pond.
It is so beautiful there, been several times up north, where I'm from, the state that is. We had a cabin up north for years, but then the wildfires started happening. It became hard to find insurance that would cover us, our other insurer dropped everyone. The job opportunities aren't there. On the weekends, during the Spring/Summer and anytime it snows, it is almost impossible to drive up there with all the traffic from the city. If an accident happens expect to wait hours on the road in traffic...some have even waited late into the night.
The locals in the small towns up there start treating any outsiders and anyone from the city with contempt...not so friendly. During extreme droughts, and it happens a lot now days, they close everything down. No camping, and hardly ever any fires at the camp sites...so no smores for the little ones. We sold everything and moved. Between the violence in Phoenix, drug addicts everywhere, crime everywhere, heat, rent and home and the cost of everything else that went up...we sold everything and left.
Good post. I would worry about the wildfires in the whole area he talked about.
I worked up there in the early 90’s. Had a lot of fun! Beautiful part of AZ and the country.
The best small town videos on youtube! Keep up the great work Jeff.
that was a wonderful video,,so many areas i didnt even know existed in Arizona..i dont know about anyone else but id love to see a video tour around Verde valley,,Cottonwood,Clarksdale,,maybe village of Oak Creek,,or maybe Prescott valley,Chino Valley Williamson,,or any other small towns or nice places to live in Yavapai county...
Saved this video - thank you J. Have friends in Forest Lakes.
Cool you showcased one of my parents old homes in Springerville
This was a really quick trip you took. You hit the typical hot spots for tourist, no surprise there. I think you were not as realistic about the weather up on the rim. It can get hot, over 100 degrees, yes, but it does cool down after dark. And the wind, there are months where the wind blows so hard you are very limited in what you can do outside. If you go up after Labor Day, let's say the 3rd week of September, the crowds are mostly gone as the kids are back in school and the holiday crowds have headed back to the valley. Then you can experience quiet and cooler days.
This was a very interesting and pretty video. I visited a short portion of the White Mountains in 2015 while visiting my brother in Show Low. I loved the area. I had a daughter living in at Estrella Mountain in west Phoenix but unfortunately she moved to NC when her husband was transferred. I kind of had a back of the mind thought to get a mobile home up in one of those small towns as a part retirement home, but wife would never agree to move to small towns or rural areas. I enjoy your videos very much and am a subscriber.
Love Pinetop
little small town are hidden GEM 💎
Excellent video!!!
Also my dad was born in Mesa. Rode horseback to school on Alma School Rd when it was a dirt road! He passed a 11:39 way recently at 93. My grandparents are buried in Mesa Cemetery
Wow..Looks so crowded compared to when my family lived there. We had little $$ so we spent our weekends traveling Northern Az. in our van. Unrecognizable in some places. (70's)
well ,it was nice overview of arizona .❤
Only problem with Forest Lakes is you're driving an hour to either Payson or Show Low if you need any decent shopping. Although that may be part of the appeal for some.
Not to mention medical care. An hour either way.
and at 7500 ft elevation it will get snowed in each winter!
Yes, love the videos! Love the small town videos!
one of the best videos I have seen of the entire white mountains area.Definitely want want to see updated videos of towns on Arizona.
It Pine Top best dinner restaurant is Mr ZEKES! Best breakfast restaurant is Darbys! I have tried them all. I go up there one week a month.year around. Best Mexican restaurant is Los corrals .
I love your show of Arizona my friend thx
Love your videos. Big thanks from Chandler, AZ. Subscribed.
Thank you for an excellent and informative report. Great job!
Interesting fact about Snowflake - named for the 2 main families from the area - the Snows and the Flakes (this, according to a Flake descendant I grew up with).
We used to have a cabin in Forest Lakes. COOOOOLD WINTERS!
And if you’re looking, check out Happy Jack if you want proximity to Flagstaff without the traffic hassles
Love my home state.
I went camping there many many many many years ago. ❤
Nice Alpine Forest up there
I enjoy these small town videos and your road trip videos with information on what you are showing us
I lived in Ganado AZ back in 1980. I back packed in Salt creek canyon, it was amazing. Sounds like there are restrictions now? I forget the name of the ski resort owned by the Apache tribe. That's where I learned to ski. Wonderful memories.
are you talking about the Sunrise Ski area?
@@dskains Yes! Went there twice. Learned how to ski there. Thanks!
gotta check out pleasant valley, aka young, its in-between payson and show low, down the 512
Coda: Pinetop and Lakeside were my vacation stomping grounds in the WMs as a kid...before it was 'built up'. Back then it was rinky-dink and comfortable.
We live in the Verde Valley, with lots of relatives in the White Mountain area. People are friendly, happy and down to earth there, mostly conservative. Don't be surprised to see people carrying a gun, its just normal here.
Where have you been Jeff, I have not received any of you episodes in quite a while. Please do more current and concise updates.
I live in Montana and have lived in Colorado. For some strange reason the feeling I get when traveling through the Arizona White Mountains area is of creepy desolation.
Reference Travis Walton from Snowflake AZ and the alien abduction.
Good information video
I want to move to Arizona so bad 😭
Don't. It's not all as glamorous as he portrays.
Please, do more small town videos. I'd really like to see some in depth coverage of what it's like to live in places like Springerville, Eagar, and Greer.
Thx. ❤ Maybe add highlights of "downtown" areas, postoffice, city hall, main grocery, etc.
Woe! Lots of chemtrails.
Eagar Az…… the town Bill Cooper was gunned down by LE on his front porch
You forgot to show Alpine...It is a neat little town. My friend lived there for years and I loved to go there for a few weeks visit in the Summer. Good fishing in the lakes around the town..
Jeff, please do similar ones in Central and Southern Arizona.
I was just through that Forest Lakes area between Payson and Heber on my motorcycle a week ago. Expect long delays due to ongoing road constructions in 3 places.
Excellent video
Featuring all my favorite haunts in the state as a native.
Nice job
Arizona is so different than i ever expected. My husband lied to me for years...theres nothing there..its not a good place😢😢 a few years ago i got my first smart phone. I found Arizona...i fell in love❤❤❤❤❤. Im 72..not sure if ill ever get to come there. Being a Florida girl..i really dont care for COLD..not sure how id do. MY FIRST VISIT TO YOUR CHANNEL.. SUBSCRIBED
Phoenix and Tucson have very mild winters. The show low and pinetop area are 6 to 7000 ft. elevation and get snow in the winter.
I currently live on Show Low and appreciate the Valley people coming up in the summer but as soon as fall hits... leave! 😂
Love it
Jeff, stay with the small towns.
Another excellent video. Yes more of the same.
My father had a nice place near Tonto Village Az. north of Payson Az. until a wild fire came through and burned 123,000 acres of forest around 1990. What is sad that if everybody could see all this area back in the 1960's and 1970's everybody would be amazed how beautiful the area was compared to now.
RESPECT
I moved to Snowflake during Covid,
I got a great deal on a 40 acre property,
Last year Snowflakes population went up 10%
My friend lives in Tucson. Over one hundred degrees for four months this past summer. 😢
Imagine that?
Have you done videos on Camp Verde and Cottonwood?
What he doesn't tell you is that water is at a high concern. For example, the town of Pine is in danger of having no water due to the overpopulation, same with Rio Verde. There's a hold on building in metro Phoenix due to water issues. You're limited in medical care in the white mountains and jobs are also very limited. Internet is crappy so working remote is hard even for Starlink. Sure, it's beautiful and people are drawn to the white mountains but the grass isnt always greener on the other side.
How is there a hold on building in Phoenix? They’re planning on building nearly 20,000 homes near the TSMC plant. Not to mention the zillion apartment buildings being built right now..and the resort near the football stadium. If someone is saying there’s a hold, they’re lying.
Sunrise is not on Mt. Baldy. Near to it, but not the same peak.
Any video about pine and strawberry
Been to the Show Low area. Mild summers? NOT! Temp was over 100 degrees everyday! Most of the area is dry desert!. Greer's elevation make it's the coolest area but very expensive. Other than pine trees in a few forest areas, there's not much green. Most of the towns mentioned in this video are dry desert towns. No one owns a lawnmower!
When I've had 30 days of above 110 here i Phoenix.. the 100 does seem mild.
Were you looking at a broken thermometer??? 100 “every day”? Not as long as I’ve been here. Summers are definitely mild. High desert/mountain stuff.
@@rmo52 With global warming we have skipped Fall here.
@rmo52 One month nesr Cocho, Show Low, St. Johns,. and other nearby towns, last July, looking at cheap off grid land. No rain, hight heat wave (100 degrees) everyday. Land was on remote treacherous dirt roads where no grass grew, and nothing probably would grow. Only Cocho had ground wells. All other towns have to have water delivered to tanks.
my wife and I moved from the greater Seattle area to Catalina, Az. a few years ago, and then from there to Amarillo, Tx. where we now live......I'm curious to know if you've ever explored the history and the area where the Power brothers had a famous shootout in 1918 with the sheriff's posse that went to arrest them for resisting the WW1 draft ?
Sierra vista Huachuca mts Parker lake Coronado monument all in the same area as well as Ramsey canyon preserve
Isn't Payson en route to sunrise ski resort?
What about Western Drug in Springerville???? How many drug stores sell firearms. If you’ve never been there you’re really missing out.
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Excellent video, Jeff! Your channel is probably my favorite. Absolutely love it. I think my biggest regret concerning our 7 years living in Arizona (before having to move out to the east coast) is not exploring more in the northern part of the state. Saw Sedona and Flagstaff but clearly there’s so much more waiting, which we’ll do when we move back out there (hopefully one of the days soon) for good!
What does it mean when video is a Premier?
It always surprises me when the White Mountains are described as being in northern Arizona. All you need to do is look at a map of Arizona and see they're not north at all. They look slightly in the southern half if anything. They're much more accurately described as being in East Central Arizona. I guess to some people anything north of Phoenix is northern Arizona.
I love it up there but can't afford to buy a house up there I'm in Phoenix want to retire up north
My mom lives about 5 miles from Vernon.
My husband and son saw some kind of cryptid animal drinking from a lake when they were hiking there. Very scary.
My neighbor in Concho raises cattle and sells beef.
What’s the real estate like for retirement in show low
Please show us a great place for military retired members
With the on-going (permanent?) drought I don't think I'd live in forested areas or cities surrounded by forests. Remember the horrendous Wallow fire eastern Arizona had in 2011 - was the largest fire in Arizona's history.
My sister's up there but I've never been invited to visit. Not a very loving family. We used to be but time sure changed my half sisters.😢
I wanna retire here!❤
the best hilly with trees off grid location??????
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