Beaver Dam, Arizona
A warm-winter river community at one of the lowest, sunniest corners of Arizona.
Arizona's Quiet Corner on the Virgin River
Beaver Dam sits where the Beaver Dam Wash meets the Virgin River, directly adjacent to Littlefield in Arizona's far northwest corner. Like its neighbors, it is connected to the world by Interstate 15 rather than by any Arizona highway — Mesquite, Nevada is the shopping trip; St. George, Utah is the city run.
The community is best known for its golf-course neighborhoods and its winter population. At one of the lowest elevations in Arizona, Beaver Dam enjoys some of the mildest winters in the state, which has made it a long-running favorite with seasonal residents who want desert sunshine without Phoenix traffic.
Around Beaver Dam
The Virgin River cottonwood corridor gives the community its green ribbon, and the Beaver Dam Mountains rise immediately to the north — the same range the interstate cuts through in the Virgin River Gorge. Beaver Dam Wash, running north toward Utah, is a designated wilderness study landscape known for Joshua tree stands and desert tortoise habitat.
Practicalities: services are minutes away in Mesquite, and the area shares the same hot-summer, golden-winter climate as the rest of the low Virgin Valley. Our Resources section covers living and building in the Beaver Dam–Littlefield area in detail.
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Six communities call the Arizona Strip region home — each with its own character.