In Show Low the main street is called Deuce of Clubs, and the name comes from the legend of how the town got its own. This map of Show Low prints the Abner Ellsworth House, Festival Marketplace, the Show Low Public Library, the Northland Pioneer College White Mountain Campus, Show Low Junior High School and the Adair Amphitheater, with the Ellsworth Hills, Timber Mesa and Show Low Creek giving shape to the land.
Show Low is a city in Navajo County, on the Mogollon Rim in east central Arizona.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave modern data the look of a vintage atlas. The shaded relief of the Ellsworth Hills and Timber Mesa comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The Abner Ellsworth House was confirmed against the National Park Service and the National Register of Historic Places. The city sits at 6,345 feet, close to extensive forests, and it’s a popular place for outdoor recreation.
A town won at cards
According to a legend, Show Low got its name from a marathon poker game between Corydon E. Cooley and Marion Clark. The two men were equal partners in a 100,000-acre ranch, but they decided there wasn’t room enough in the settlement for both of them, and they agreed to settle it over a game of Seven Up, with the winner taking the ranch and the loser leaving. When the game seemed to have no end, Clark said, “If you can show low, you win.” Cooley turned up the deuce of clubs, the lowest possible card, and answered, “Show low it is.” The town remembers the story in the name of its main street, Deuce of Clubs. Show Low was established in 1870 and incorporated as a city in 1953, and the 2020 census counted 11,732 people.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: W Kartchner, W Savage, W Old Linden Rd, W Bench Rd, Smith Ranch Rd, Tank Rd, N 43rd Ave, Old Hwy 160, Fool Hollow Lake Rd, Clark Rd, Commerce Dr, Whipple Ranch Rd.
More street names, A to Z
Airport Rd, Aspen Trl, Breinholt Ln, Carina Ln, Creek Trl, Crosby Ln, E Adams, E Cooley, E Maple Ln, E Show Low Lake Rd, E Sitgreaves, E Summerberry Dr, E Woolford, E Woolford Rd, Flores Dr, Forest Ave, Gemini Ln, Ginnale Ln, Hiden Way, Larkspur Rd, Leaf Rd, Maryanne Rd, Mogollon Rim Rd, Mountain Rd, Nelson Dr, N Penrod Rd, Penrod Rd, Pine Tree Ct, Pond Dr, Rim Rd, S Central Ave, S Clark Rd, Show Low Lake Rd, Siesta Ln, Snowberry Loop, Spur Ln, S Ridge Crest Dr, S Ridgeline Dr, S Rock Creek, Tall Pine Rd, W Acer Ln, Wagon Wheel, W Automall Pkwy, W Deuce of Clubs, Webb Dr, W McNeil, W Rockel Falls, W Senna Ln, W Stratton, W Torre Lake.
Lakes and the creek
Less than 2 miles from downtown, Fool Hollow Lake takes its name from Thomas Jefferson Adair, a settler who tried to farm the rocky canyon in the 1880s. In 1957 the Arizona Game and Fish Department built a dam across Fool Hollow Wash and Show Low Creek to provide water recreation, and the lake covered the old community of Adair. The lake spreads over 150 acres at 6,260 feet and is run jointly by Arizona State Parks, the Forest Service, Game and Fish and the city, and it’s stocked with rainbow trout in spring and summer. Show Low Lake, 100 acres at 6,500 feet in the White Mountains, has its park five miles south of downtown; Game and Fish stocks rainbow trout from April through September and walleye, bass and sunfish reproduce on their own.
Around the map
Northland Pioneer College began offering classes in the fall of 1974 for a district covering 21,158 square miles of northeastern Arizona, more than forty percent of it on the Navajo, Hopi and White Mountain Apache reservations. More than 2,000 students enrolled that first year, double what was expected, and its first classes met in an abandoned school, an abandoned hospital and borrowed classrooms. Show Low is home to the White Mountain Campus, one of the college’s four regional campuses; Jonathan Nez, the ninth President of the Navajo Nation, is among its alumni. Show Low Junior High School is one of the schools of the Show Low Unified School District, along with Show Low High School. Paul Ulibarri, a professional disc golfer from Show Low, won the 2006 PDGA Amateur Disc Golf World Championship. Festival Marketplace, the Show Low Public Library and the Adair Amphitheater appear on the sheet as well.
This Show Low map makes 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 Show Low home, up on the Mogollon Rim, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the city as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Show Low map.
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