Outdoors & parks
Horton Creek Trail
Payson
Rim Country's favorite creekside ramble — climb through pines beside spring-fed cascades to the gushing source at Horton Spring.
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Area & food guide
Gila County
Arizona, United States
Gila County climbs from saguaro country to the pine forests of the Mogollon Rim — home to the world's largest natural travertine bridge, Roosevelt Lake, ancient cliff dwellings and the old mining towns of Globe and Miami.
- Tonto Natural Bridge, the world's largest travertine arch
- Roosevelt Lake boating and fishing
- Mogollon Rim's hundred-mile pine views
- Historic mining towns of Globe and Miami
Outdoors & parks
Outdoors & parks
Mogollon Rim Viewpoints
Payson
A two-thousand-foot escarpment where Arizona's high country simply ends — Rim Road pullouts gaze over an ocean of pines.
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Outdoors & parks
Roosevelt Lake
Roosevelt
Arizona's biggest home-state lake, born of a 1911 dam — bass anglers, houseboats and desert-bighorn shorelines share its 128 miles of coast.
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Outdoors & parks
Tonto Natural Bridge State Park
Payson
Believed to be the largest travertine bridge on earth — scramble beneath its 183-foot arch where a creek drips through a mossy tunnel.
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Outdoors & parks
Woods Canyon Lake
Payson
A cool pine-ringed lake atop the Rim at 7,500 feet — rent a boat, walk the shoreline loop and forget the desert exists.
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Arts & culture
Arts & culture
Besh-Ba-Gowah Archaeological Park
Globe
Climb ladders through the reconstructed rooms of a 700-year-old Salado pueblo — Globe's backyard window into a vanished world.
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Arts & culture
Historic Downtown Globe
Globe
A copper-boom Main Street where the 1906 courthouse now houses art studios — antiques, murals and mining-era bones everywhere you look.
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Arts & culture
Tonto National Monument
Roosevelt
Salado cliff dwellings gaze over Roosevelt Lake as they have for seven hundred years — the short climb up rewards with rooms still bearing original timbers.
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Day trips
Day trips
Payson & Rim Country
Payson
The Valley's classic cool-country escape — pines at 5,000 feet, Zane Grey lore and the world's oldest continuous rodeo every August.
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Day trips
Salt River Canyon Scenic Drive
Globe
Arizona's 'mini Grand Canyon' — US-60 spirals two thousand feet down to the Salt River bridge and back up the far wall.
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Frequently asked questions
What is there to do in Gila County?
Gila County climbs from saguaro country to the pine forests of the Mogollon Rim — home to the world's largest natural travertine bridge, Roosevelt Lake, ancient cliff dwellings and the old mining towns of Globe and Miami. Highlights include Horton Creek Trail, Mogollon Rim Viewpoints, Roosevelt Lake, Tonto Natural Bridge State Park.
What are the best outdoor spots in Gila County?
Popular outdoor spots around Gila County include Horton Creek Trail, Mogollon Rim Viewpoints, Roosevelt Lake, Tonto Natural Bridge State Park.