Arizona Home Rentals

Arizona Home Rentals

Why not get a home rental in the great USA state of Arizona. It can be a super place for a vacation. Why not get a cheap or luxury home in the state. Why not rent, loan, hire, buy, sell purchase a villa, or a condo, or a cabin or a home in the state.

Arizona is located in the Western United States as one of the Four Corners states. Arizona is the sixth largest state in area, after New Mexico and before Nevada. Of the state's 118,000 square miles, approximately 15 per cent is privately owned. The remaining area is public forest and park land, recreation areas and Native American reservations.

Arizona is best known for its desert landscape, which is rich in xerophyte plants such as cactus. It is also known for its climate, which presents exceptionally hot summers and mild winters. Less well known is the pine covered high country of the Colorado Plateau in the north central portion of the state, which contrasts with the desert Basin and Range region in the southern portions of the state.

Like other states of the Southwest, Arizona has an abundance of topographical characteristics in addition to its desert climate. More than half of the state features mountains and plateaus and contains the largest stand of Ponderosa pine in the world. The Mogollon Rim, a 2,000 foot escarpment, cuts across the central section of the state and marks the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau, where the state experienced its worst forest fire ever in 2002. Arizona belongs firmly within the Basin and Range region of North America. The region was shaped by prehistoric volcanism, followed by a cooling off and related subsidence. The entire region is slowly sinking.

The Grand Canyon is a colorful, steep sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in northern Arizona. The canyon is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and is largely contained in the Grand Canyon National Park, one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of designating the Grand Canyon area, visiting on numerous occasions to hunt mountain lion and enjoy the scenery. The Canyon was created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years, and is about 277 miles long, ranges in width from 4 to 18 miles and attains a depth of more than 1 mile (1.6 km).

Arizona is home to one of the largest and most well-preserved meteorite impact sites in the world. The Barringer Meteorite Crater (better known simply as "Meteor Crater") is a gigantic hole in the middle of the high plains of the Colorado Plateau, about 25 miles west of Winslow. A rim of smashed and jumbled boulders, some of them the size of small houses, rises 150 feet above the level of the surrounding plain. The crater itself is nearly a mile wide, and 570 feet deep.

Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving Time, except in the Navajo Nation, located in the northeastern region of the state.

Due to its large area and variations in elevation, the state has a wide variety of localized climate conditions. In the lower elevations, the climate is primarily desert, with mild winters and hot summers.

Airports with regularly scheduled commercial flights include: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix ( the largest airport and the major international airport in the state ); Tucson International Airport in Tucson; Phoenix - Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa; Yuma International Airport in Yuma; Prescott Municipal Airport in Prescott; Flagstaff Pulliam Airport in Flagstaff, and Grand Canyon National Park Airport, a small, but busy, single runway facility providing tourist flights, mostly from Las Vegas. Phoenix Sky Harbor is currently 7th busiest airport in the world in terms of aircraft movements, and 17th for passenger traffic.

Regions

Arizona Strip, Coconino Plateau, Colorado Plateau, Grand Canyon, Kaibab Plateau, Mogollon Plateau, Mogollon Rim, Mojave Desert, Monument Valley, North Central Arizona, Northeast Arizona,Northern Arizona, Oak Creek Canyon, Phoenix Metropolitan Area, Safford area , San Francisco Volcanic Field, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona, Verde Valley,White Mountains

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