The Mogollon Rim Is Payson's Backdrop

The Mogollon Rim is Payson's Backdrop.

Driving from Scottsdale on Highway 87 North, you'll find yourself right in the geographic center of the state, 4000 feet higher than Phoenix, and fifteen to twenty degrees cooler...no matter what time of year.

You're in the "Rim Country," a four-season vacation getaway that's well off the beaten path. Before you is a spectacular geological formation known as The Mogollon Rim (pronounced Muggy-own).
Once inhabited by the ancient Anasazi, this gargantuan 7000 foot high escarpment bisects the state from west to east for almost two hundred miles, and towers above the communities of Payson, Pine, Strawberry, Kohl's Ranch and Christopher Creek.

The Mogollon Rim marks the Southern edge of the Colorado Plateau. The plateau extends North and East into Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.

In our area the Rim is a result of uplift along the North side of an East - West trending fault and the removal of about 2500 ft. of Paleozoic age sedimentary rocks from the uplifted edge of the plateau.