They lived along the Mogollon Rim, especially from the 1100s through the 1300s AD, when they abandoned their large villages.

It lies on the Mogollon Rim in east central Arizona, at an elevation of 6, 400 feet ( 1, 951 m ).

This Discovery Channel Telescope ( DCT ), located within the Mogollon Rim Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest, is expected to be the fifth-largest telescope in the contiguous United States, and it will enable the astronomers of Lowell Observatory to enter new research areas deeper into outer space.

The county's topography makes a dramatic transition from the lower Sonoran Desert to the south to the heights of the Coconino Plateau to the north, and the Mogollon Rim to the east.

* Camp Geronimo-Located between Payson, Arizona and Pine, Arizona, near the Mogollon Rim.

The Spade Ranch house was built by the Spade family on the basis of Webber Creek just beneath the Mogollon Rim.

The town is close to the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, which runs along the Mogollon Rim.

Category: Populated places of the Mogollon Rim

The Mogollon Rim lies to the north ; there are a few small lakes in the area.

Fossils are commonly found in the Paleozoic strata that is exposed along the Mogollon Rim to the north and west of Payson along State Route 87 and State Route 260.

Category: Populated places of the Mogollon Rim

Pine and the adjacent community of Strawberry are rapidly-growing vacation and retirement centers in north-central Arizona, below the Mogollon Rim.

Category: Populated places of the Mogollon Rim

Category: Populated places of the Mogollon Rim

Category: Populated places of the Mogollon Rim

Category: Populated places of the Mogollon Rim

Situated atop the Mogollon Rim, the community lies at an elevation of around.

Category: Populated places of the Mogollon Rim

Category: Populated places of the Mogollon Rim

Camp Verde is surrounded by Prescott National Forest. The Mogollon Rim is just north of the town and forms the southwestern edge of the large, geologically ancient Colorado Plateau.

The Mogollon Rim escarpment is part of the transition zone between the Mogollon Plateau of the Colorado Plateau Province and the Sonoran Desert of the Basin and Range Province.

From 1923 to 1930, he spent a few weeks a year at his cabin on the Mogollon Rim, in Central Arizona.

It is overlooked by Mingus Mountain and the Mogollon Rim.

View of Mogollon Rim, east of Pine, Arizona

Current opinion holds that the closer cultural similarity between the Mogollon and Ancient Pueblos and their greater differences from the Hohokam and Patayan is due to both the geography and the variety of climate zones in the Southwest.

The Spade Ranch house is also the home to the Mogollon Monster story, which is a classic traditionally told for every group of campers that come through each week during the summer camp.

The Mogollon Rim ( or ) or ) is a topographical and geological feature running across the U. S. state of Arizona.

The Mogollon Rim is practically bisected by Interstate 17 which runs north-to-south between Flagstaff and Phoenix.

The White Mountains of Arizona are a mountain range and mountainous region in the eastern part of the state, near the border with New Mexico ; it is a continuation from the west of the Arizona transition zone – Mogollon Rim, with the Rim ending in western New Mexico.

It is also bounded by the Rio Grande Rift, Mogollon Rim and the Basin and Range.

The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest is a United States National Forest which runs along the Mogollon Rim and the White Mountains in east-central Arizona and extending into New Mexico, USA.

People of the Mogollon culture lived in these cliff dwellings from between 1275 and 1300 AD ( Pueblo III Era ), which is the only location that contains Mogollon sites.

The visitor center is jointly operated by the U. S. Forest Service, and the National Park Service, which maintains a small museum of artifacts, Apache and Mogollon uncovered both in the surrounding wilderness, and at the main ruins themselves.

** Canyon Creek band ( Gołkizhn-‘ Spotted on Top People ’, likely refers to a mountain that is spotted with junipers, lived along Canyon Creek, a tributary of the Salt River in the Mogollon Rim area, western band of the Cibecue Apache )

It is dominated by the Colorado Plateau, the southern border of which in Arizona is called the Mogollon Rim.

There it occurs south and southwest of the Arizona transition zone of the Mogollon Rim ; in the northwest-central Sonoran Desert of Arizona, it is in a few selected locales.

The Mogollon ( or ) is one of the four major prehistoric archaeological Oasisamerica culture areas of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.

The southern border of this plateau is the Mogollon Rim, a nearly 400 mile ( 640 km ) long escarpment running across central Arizona that also marks the southern boundary of the Colorado Plateau.

The southern boundary of the district is the edge of the Mogollon Rim where the Coconino National Forest borders the Tonto National Forest and Coconino County borders Gila County.

Much of the land south of the Mogollon Rim lies 4000 to 5000 feet ( 1, 200 to 1, 500 meters ) above sea level, with the escarpment rising to about.

The novel-writer Louis L ' Amour's novel The Sackett Brand was also set in the area of the Mogollon Rim, with the cliffs of the Rim being specifically described.

The Tonto National Forest has diverse scenery, with elevations ranging from 1, 400 feet ( 427 m ) in the Sonoran Desert to 7, 400 feet ( 2, 256 m ) in the ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim ( pronounced MOH-gee-on, or MUH-gee-own ).

Haury recognized that superficial similarities with the Hohokam archaeological culture and the Ancient Pueblo (" Anasazi ") archaeological culture, including ( initially unpainted ) brown-paste pottery and the use of surface " pueblo " dwellings were insufficient to firmly characterize the inhabitants of the Mogollon region as subdivisions of these other archaeologically known cultures.

One model holds that the Mogollon emerged from a preceding " Desert Archaic " tradition that links Mogollon ancestry with the first ( late Pleistocene ) prehistoric human occupations of area ( around 9000 BC ).

The earliest Mogollon villages are little more than hamlets composed of several pit-houses ( houses excavated into the ground surface, with stick and thatch roofs supported by a network of posts and beams, and faced on the exterior with earth ).

* Piyahgonte ( Pi-yah-gon-te, Yavapai-Tonto-Apache leader in the 1860s and 1870s, with his band of about 75 people he was living along both sides of the upper East Verde River north to the Mogollon Rim, he was believed to be responsible for the most of the depredations around Prescott )

These pit houses were similar to those constructed by the neighboring Mogollon pueblo people, but were larger in size and made with a more shallow depression.