Antelope Mountain
ANTELOPE MOUNTAIN View from the saddle of Antelope Mountain near Greer A drive along State Route 260 in the White Mountains between Pinetop-Lakeside and Springerville is a tour of extremes. Fish Creek Corral frames a view of Antelope Mountain The scenic byway begins in dense woodlands replete with lakeside retreats that comes to an abrupt end near the turn off for the town of Greer where the landscape jumps from piney to pastoral. Ellis Wiltbank Reservoir sits at the base of Antelope Mtn. Like a splash of cold water, the terrain suddenly changes into sprawling grasslands and isolated pine-covered knolls. Figuring prominently in the landscape are hundreds of lumps, bumps, slumps and conical hills--welcome to the complex geology of the Springerville Volcanic Field. This swath of cinder cones and lava flows sits at the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau, a roughly 130,000 square mile collection of some of the country’s most remarkable landforms (think: Zion, Capitol Reef a...