Pinetop got its name from a saloon owner, Walt Rigney, nicknamed “Pinetop” for his tall saloon building, and Lakeside got its name from the lakes. This map of the joined town prints Lakeside, the Pinetop-Lakeside Public Library, The Depot, Blue Ridge High School, the White Mountain Community Center and Jack Barker Memorial Park, with Springer Mountain, Billy Creek and Walnut Creek giving shape to the land.
Pinetop-Lakeside is a town in Navajo County, near the White Mountains.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of Springer Mountain comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The town covers 11.3 square miles, and 4,030 people lived here at the 2020 census. It’s a popular summer resort and second-home area for Arizona’s desert residents.
Two towns among the pines
Mormon settlers came into the area in the 1880s, and for much of the early history they were the main non-Native residents. The big industry then was the sawmills, cutting the large, mature ponderosa pine forest that surrounds the town. Pinetop and Lakeside merged into one town in 1984, but many residents, and the U.S. Postal Service, still treat them as separate communities.
The Walnut Creek drainage fills three lakes in the area: Woodland Park Lake, owned by the town, Rainbow Lake and the privately owned Lake of the Woods. Rainbow Lake was made in 1903, when Mormon settlers dammed Walnut Creek, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, to store water for irrigation. It covers 116 acres and is no deeper than 14 feet, and it lies just outside the town’s boundaries along State Route 260. Arizona Game and Fish keeps a public landing there for fishing and boating and stocks rainbow trout in the spring and early summer.
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Mountains, schools and a hometown singer
Pinetop-Lakeside is among the communities near the White Mountains, a range in the eastern part of the state whose highest summit, Mount Baldy, reaches 11,400 feet. Much of the range lies within the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, home of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, and the City of Show Low’s Four Seasons Connection bus runs from the tribe’s Hon-Dah casino to Show Low and Pinetop-Lakeside. The town is served by the Blue Ridge Unified School District, whose schools include Blue Ridge Elementary, Blue Ridge Middle, Blue Ridge Junior High and Blue Ridge High School.
Singer and songwriter Zella Day was born in Pinetop-Lakeside in 1995 and grew up in the café and art space her parents helped create here. She wrote her first songs soon after picking up the guitar at age 9, drawing on her parents’ singer-songwriter records and the rugged desert landscape around her, and she released her first album, Powered by Love, at 14. Her single “Hypnotic” was certified by the RIAA. The Pinetop-Lakeside Public Library, The Depot, the White Mountain Community Center, Jack Barker Memorial Park, Springer Mountain and Billy Creek have their places on the sheet too.
This map of Pinetop-Lakeside is a good addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of the area. It’s made for anyone who calls Pinetop-Lakeside home, Pinetop and Lakeside alike, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the town as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Pinetop-Lakeside map.
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