RetireNet.com

Communities Net Premier community living featuring affordable to upscale living in planned active developments. Worldwide resource for active planned new home communities, rv/resort homes, golf course homes, vacation homes and luxury country club lifestyles. Communities Net is the most comprehensive resource of premier master planned communities throughout the world featuring site built homes, manufactured homes, waterfront living, gated communities, golf course home and more. See also: New Homes, Golf Course Homes, Mortgage Information, Pre-Owned Homes, Resales, Second Homes, New Home Buyers, For Sale By Owner, Country Club Living, Resort Living.

Please Note: You are currently viewing the non-styled version of our website. Either your browser does not support Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or support is disabled. Upgrading to a newer browser that features CSS support is almost always easy and free, and will allow you to enjoy enhanced functionality on other sites as well. We recommend Mozilla Firefox for all Windows and Linux systems, and for Macintosh OSX.

The world's largest and most complete directory of community living.

 

Find Your Ideal Retirement Community

Arizona: All Communities

 

View Community Listings

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% is privately owned. The remaining area is government 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 desertic 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 United States. The Mogollon Rim, a 2000-foot (600 m) 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 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.

 

Of Interest

Local News from Arizona Daily Sun via Yahoo! News

1,000 Words: A crafty time

Nov 22, 2008 1:22 pm

Sophia Katz, a native of Russia, shows her collection of hand-painted dolls at the Holiday Craft Fair Friday. The eighth annual fair will continue today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the NAU Field House. (...

 

This week in Flagstaff history

Nov 22, 2008 1:21 pm

100 YEARS AGO The walls of the new prison at Florence are rising with greater rapidity than was thought possible by the men who know the most about it. Six hundred feet of foundation was laid last wee...

 

1,000 Words: A Serenade for givers

Nov 21, 2008 1:22 pm

Members of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra perform at the Flagstaff Medical Center cafeteria Wednesday to launch their annual Thanksgiving partnership with United Blood Services. Anyone that donates ...

 

Page council OKs study to upgrade water system

Nov 21, 2008 1:21 pm

PAGE -- Page City Council authorized a $60,000 insurance policy of sorts for continued water service from Glen Canyon Dam Thursday night.

 

Prescribed burns scheduled for today

Nov 21, 2008 1:21 pm

Fuel management crews with the Coconino National Forest plan to ignite the following prescribed burns today:

 

Some criminal charges vs. Hopi chair dropped

Nov 21, 2008 1:21 pm

KYKOTSMOVI (AP) -- A Hopi judge has dismissed two criminal charges against tribal Chairman Ben Nuvamsa, but the chairman is still fighting three other charges that allege he damaged public property.

 

1,000 Words: Cirque Du Soleil

Nov 20, 2008 1:21 pm

Performers from Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco walk through downtown Flagstaff on Wednesday afternoon to promote upcoming shows Nov. 20-23 in Prescott Valley at Tim's Toyota Center. The performers han...

 

Easing of anti-camping law set for vote Dec. 2

Nov 20, 2008 1:21 pm

The first major revision of the city's anti-camping ordinance is now up for a council vote on Dec. 2.

 

More prescribed fires planned for today

Nov 20, 2008 1:21 pm

The following are planned prescribed fires for today, according to the U.S. Forest Service:

 

Fires planned for Anderson Mesa, A-1

Nov 19, 2008 2:06 pm

A pair of prescribed burns are scheduled to take place today.

 
 

Local News from Tucson Weekly via Yahoo! News

Gold Medal Lockdown

Nov 19, 2008 11:12 pm

Former swimming superstar Rick DeMont has triumphed over an ordeal that could've crushed him

 

In Need of Repair

Nov 19, 2008 11:12 pm

Many National Park Service officials look to the future after eight dreadful years

 

Settling In

Nov 19, 2008 11:12 pm

Some former residents of the MLK building enjoy new homes; others await a return to downtown

 

Demanding Equality

Nov 19, 2008 11:12 pm

After the passage of Prop 102 and California's Prop 8, protesters march and launch coalition-building efforts

 

The Skinny

Nov 19, 2008 11:11 pm

Little bits of news strung together haphazardly.

 

Media Watch

Nov 19, 2008 11:11 pm

Overall to Leave KVOA at Year's End

 

T Q&A

Nov 19, 2008 11:11 pm

Tucson Q&A with Lyle Steffens

 

Police Dispatch

Nov 19, 2008 11:11 pm

Evidence of the local criminal mind at work.

 

Danehy

Nov 19, 2008 11:11 pm

Tom goes to the grocery store, and the hijinks ensue

 

Messina

Nov 19, 2008 11:10 pm

What happens after you die? These folks offer some insight

 
 

Local News from Tucson Citizen via Yahoo! News

Reports say Grijalva being vetted as Interior secretary

Nov 22, 2008 7:17 am

Arizona could lose not one but two of its elected officials to President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet.

 

Carlock: Napolitano not borderline but ideal for Homeland Security

Nov 22, 2008 7:17 am

Republicans rule ... woman roaring ... is Tucson safe? ... expect the worst ...

 

City tax revenue 'tanking;' more budget cuts loom

Nov 22, 2008 7:17 am

With October's sales tax figures confirming the economy's accelerating downward slide, normally staid and stoic city officials have started throwing around terms that once would have sounded hyperboli...

 

Cave Creek mom's vampire tales suck teens into 'Twilight'

Nov 22, 2008 7:16 am

When Cave Creek mom Stephenie Meyer walked the red carpet in Los Angeles this week, she was mobbed by thousands of squealing teenage girls, many nearly hyperventilating just at the sight of her.

 

Tempe-based National Guard unit returns from Iraq

Nov 22, 2008 7:16 am

PHOENIX - Dawn was at hand, and so was the end of a nearly yearlong wait for dozens of Arizona National Guard soldiers and their families.

 

TPD now handling graffiti calls

Nov 22, 2008 7:16 am

No longer will calls about graffiti be shunted from the Tucson Police Department to a clerical worker in the city's Community Services Department, who then types in a work order and sends it into the ...

 

City cuts 3 staffers on loan to economic development agency

Nov 22, 2008 7:16 am

So far, the tally of Tucson city employees told their jobs would no longer exist because of the city's financial strife numbers only three.

 

I-10 work to be halted for Thanksgiving weekend

Nov 22, 2008 7:16 am

Motorists who must deal with the continuing widening of Interstate 10 downtown will get a break from Wednesday through the long Thanksgiving Day weekend.

 

St. Joseph's CEO steps down as Carondelet plans 'new direction'

Nov 22, 2008 7:15 am

Carondelet Health Network announced major administrative changes Thursday, including Chief Executive Officer Greg Angle's departure from St. Joseph's Hospital, a spokeswoman confirmed Friday.

 

Governor could be Secretary of State Brewer's next title

Nov 22, 2008 7:15 am

Secretary of State Jan Brewer, a Republican, will become governor if Janet Napolitano leaves the position to become U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Brewer has been active in state and county gove...

 
 

See more articles

 
 
 

The Meadows - ELS   AZ

Just 10 minutes from Sky Harbor Airport, The Meadows is conveniently located near shopping, medical ...

 

Palm Shadows - ELS   AZ

Nestled between the White Tank Mountains and Superstition Mountain, Palm Shadows offers residents breathtaking ...

 

Apollo Village - ELS   AZ

Apollo Village residents enjoy small town surroundings while being within a few miles of the Peoria/Glendale ...