Northern Arizona is not like any other area here in Arizona. Home to the largest ponderosa pine forest in the world, big skies and the Grand Canyon, Northern Arizona is unique in so many ways. Sitting high here in the northland, this area offers a wonderful quality of life, four seasons, and the most spectacular landscapes in the world. You will not find your typical Arizona landscape here... what you will find is loads of towering pines, wildlife, clean air and hundreds of thousands of acres of open space.

Flagstaff is home to approximately 57,000 full time residents and a few thousand more when students return to Northern Arizona University in late summer. There is an abundance of outdoor activities here, with thousands of miles of hiking, biking, camping and sightseeing right here in our backyard. The Coconino National Forest surrounds Flagstaff with over one million acres. Plus, the Arizona Snowbowl is less than 10 minutes from downtown Flagstaff that offers skiing, snowboarding and cross-country skiing.

The quaint little town of Williams is home to less than 4000 full time residents and only 30 minutes west of Flagstaff. The Kaibab National Forest encircles Williams with almost a million acres of open space here as well. The Historic Grand Canyon Railway is located here as well. Williams is known as the "Gateway to the Grand Canyon". Less than an hour's drive north from Williams, and you will be at one of the greatest natural wonders in the world.

We are an easy 2 hour drive north of Phoenix and less than 4 hours from Las Vegas. If you're looking for a place to call home, Northern Arizona is it. If you're looking for a wonderful area to come and play at or enjoy the open space and natural beauty, I can't think of a better place to be. Northern Arizona welcomes you and will captivate you ... guaranteed!

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LIVING OFF THE GRID

Once you start looking at properties here in Northern Arizona, you will see that many of them are without any utility including power, city water and sewer, cable television and internet, and natural gas. The County where most of this land is located is Coconino County, the largest county in the 48 Continental United States. It's almost the same size as the state of Massachusetts, with less than 110,000 people in this entire area. It is very rural with most of the area "off the grid" (no utilities).

What does this mean? Without utilities to the properties, a landowner looking to build a full time home would be required to install a septic system, propane gas for heating/cooking, and electricity by an alternate method (solar, wind, generator). Most of this area is also located in an area where drilling a well would be cost prohibitive. Most of the population that lives outside city limits (where all utilities can be found), install a cistern tank in the ground and then bring water in ("haul water"). Like other areas of the Southwest, the reliable water resource is too deep to drill a well and very costly. There are areas in this county where it is possible to drill a well and pricing for such land will reflect that.