MI Printing: AZ History One City At a Time: Pinetop-Lakeside

The Town of Pinetop-Lakeside is in northeastern Arizona.  They invite you to experience some of the nation’s most stunning forests, lakes and streams.  The Town of Pinetop-Lakeside is nestled in one of the largest stands of ponderosa pines on the planet, and has abundant wildlife and natural discoveries.

Located about a 2½ hour drive north-east of Phoenix, Arizona, in the White Mountains, Pinetop-Lakeside is a true four seasons area that has many great things to do year round.  In the summer you can hike, plan a picnic, dine, play golf, mountain bike, go horseback riding, swimming, shopping and enjoy nature at its finest.  In the winter you can add snow skiing and snow boarding to that list as well. The beautiful Apache Sitgreaves National Forest has camping and fishing as well as many types of wildlife and birds for nature lovers.  Always bring your camera to capture the sights of the forest and surrounding area.

History
Settlement started about in the late1880s.  Pinetop-Lakeside was first called Penrod after David Penrod, a local settler. The area was on edge of Fort Apache Indian Reservation. A bachelor named Johnny Phipps ran a saloon for the black soldiers from Fort Apache.

The Penrods built and ran a saw mill here as early as 1891.  The United States Post Office abandoned the name Penrod and accepted the name Pinetop. Until 1906 the residents were thirteen Penrod children.