How far is Eagar from Phoenix? About 225 miles and roughly four hours door to door in normal traffic, east on US-60 through the Superstition foothills to Globe, then northeast through Show Low into the Round Valley country. Eagar is Springerville's twin in the high mountain valley: a ranching town with pioneer brick homes, rodeo grounds, and the valley's summer-celebration calendar, sitting at the edge of the Apache highlands with Sunrise winters and green-summer pastures. Rodeo families, reunion groups, ranch workers on rotation, and Sunrise ski travelers staging in the valley all share one...

How far is Chinle from Phoenix? About 290 miles and roughly five hours door to door in normal traffic, northeast on AZ-87 up the Beeline Highway through Payson and Heber-Overgaard, then east on AZ-260 and north on AZ-77 and US-191 through the high desert into the red-rock canyon country. Chinle is the Canyon de Chelly gateway: a high-desert community on the Navajo Nation at the mouth of the canyon, serving canyon tours, tribal offices, the regional schools, and travelers bound for the rim drives and the ancient cliff dwellings. Canyon tour groups, jeep-tour mornings, tribal-business...