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North Central Arizona is a geographical region of Arizona. Much of it is within the Transition Zone between the Basin and Range Province and the Colorado Plateau, and has some of the most rugged and scenic landscapes in Arizona.^[1]^[2]

As part of the southern Colorado Plateau (Mogollon Plateau) it has an average elevation of 4,000–5,000 feet.

Physiographic Features

Mogollon Rim
San Francisco Volcanic Field
Humphrey's Peak, the highest peak in Arizona at 12,633 feet.
Barringer Crater (a.k.a. Meteor Crater)
Mormon Lake
Oak Creek Canyon
Verde Valley
Mingus Mountain, (Black Hills (Arizona))
Verde Rim
Red Rock Country; see Sedona and Village of Oak Creek, Arizona
Bradshaw Mountains
Granite Mountain (Arizona)
Little Colorado River
Fossil Creek Canyon

National Monuments:

Arizona State Parks

Cities/Towns:

^ Tork Qashqai, Mehdi; Carlos Afonso, Juan; Yang, Yingjie (2016). "The crustal structure of the Arizona Transition Zone and southern Colorado Plateau from multiobservable probabilistic inversion". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 17 (11): 4308–4332. Bibcode:2016GGG....17.4308T. doi:10.1002/2016GC006463.
^ "Transitional Highlands/Mogollon Rim". 18 February 2015.