Flagstaff is located in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. It is the county seat of Coconino County and is named after a Ponderosa Pine flagpole made by a scouting party from Boston to celebrate the United States Centennial on July 4, 1876.

Flagstaff lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau, along the western side of the largest contiguous Ponderosa Pine forest in the continental United States. It has a strong tourism sector, due to its proximity to Grand Canyon National Park, Oak Creek Canyon, the Arizona Snowbowl, Meteor Crater and several historic sites, as well as host to the Lowell Observatory and Northern Arizona University.

Flagstaff in pictures