We rented a cabin in Overgaard, Arizona, which is up on the rim, for 3 nights. The 4th night was free. We'd found these cabins back in 2000 when we stayed at another cabin in Forest Lakes for a whole week. At that time, we noticed that thunderstorms developed every afternoon. It cooled down and started raining during August and hubby and I wanted to get out of our desert heat and head for the high mountains. We had been up here over Memorial Day and put a deposit down on one of the cabins which was the furthest back from Highway 260. It was called the "Coffee Plantation" and was decorated with aspen wood on the inside. It had a back porch and 2 bedrooms. There's a lot of street noise along Highway 260 and I'm a light sleeper, but the back of this cabin faced away from the highway. We ended up staying one more night, instead of driving back to Scottsdale for our final night, so we stayed for 5 nights. We did our shopping at Whole Foods and AJ's, down in Scottsdale and brought some steaks up with us. The guy at the check-in said elk came down the wash behind the cabin, but we never saw any. (I think that was @#$%%^&$!) We did discover a family of Cooper's hawks in the trees behind the cabin and we both watched them all week. I also heard an owl the first morning we were there, but never saw it. We were prohibited from walking across the wash as there were "NO TRESPASSING" signs all around the houses behind the cabins. Some of the other cabins are privately owned, but the majority are rented out during the year. If you want to read more about these cabins, here's the link:
http://www.azresortcabins.com/
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