Christopher Creek is just one of more than a dozen small hamlets along a 50-mile expanse of Rim Country. Beginning at… Read more
Christopher Creek is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The old freight wagon along the Loop in front of the Lan… Read more
Christopher Creek will soon say so long to a couple that are leaving after 40 years. Pam and Mel Milhon will be movin… Read more
Christopher Creek received its very own October surprise early this week. By noon on Monday the rainfall total hit ex… Read more
Christopher Creek has a history that features pioneers, ranchers, cowboys, bootleggers, feudists, attacks and many, m… Read more
Christopher Creek is enjoying a mid-October warm spell that one might qualify as Indian summer. Read more
Christopher Creek is getting down to a trickle. The tanks for wildlife are mostly dry. Our monsoon was pitiful and ou… Read more
Christopher Creek is experiencing the beginning of the sexually active period for a segment of the local population. … Read more
Christopher Creek, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory was our address back in the 1880s. We became a part of Gila Coun… Read more
Christopher Creek began getting some rain on that Friday afternoon. It continued to rain, off and on, throughout the … Read more
Christopher Creek is our theater. The stage is the ridge and the adjoining meadows along the creek. The players are t… Read more
Christopher Creek had a sawmill north of the highway and just east of the creek. In the early 1960s, all that remaine… Read more
Christopher Creek Loop is a two-mile-long stretch of paved road connecting to State Route 260 on both ends. It serves… Read more
Christopher Creek finally got some rain. The backside of Christopher Mountain, above Woods Canyon Lake, the Bear Flat… Read more
Christopher Creek enjoyed a spectacular day for our parade celebrating the birth of the nation in July 1776. And ther… Read more
Christopher Creek celebrates the tremendous efforts of the Incident Command Teams and especially the long, hot, tirel… Read more
Christopher Creek has seen a bad week of smoke and ash from the growing menace of the Bush Fire. From late morning an… Read more
Christopher Creek received a wake-up call sometime just after 10 p.m. on the 27th of June 1990. Shortly after hearing… Read more
Christopher Creek had a brief shower last Friday evening. Distant lightning came from the back of Christopher Mountai… Read more
Christopher Creek saw a busy holiday weekend. Cabin rentals were at capacity. Parking lots were full. Hosted campsite… Read more
Christopher Creek has a sound of its own. It is an aggregation of seasonal, time of day, event, and historical sounds… Read more
Christopher Creek has been recently entertained by a mating pair of mallard ducks currently residing in the waters ju… Read more
Christopher Creek will have a parade on July Fourth. Unnamed local officials announced the intention to defy governme… Read more
Christopher Creek and how we found it is the theme for this week. Let us begin with some of the early stories — this … Read more
Christopher Creek wasn’t much more than a store with a bar, a gas station, and some cabins along the narrow, winding … Read more
Christopher Creek may not be ready for this, but these are desperate times. For many years, this column has been devo… Read more
Christopher Creek is showing all of the trappings of spring. The daffodils have bloomed, fruit trees are blossoming, … Read more
Christopher Creek is practicing social distancing. Seeing as how we are fairly new at it, we are doing pretty well. W… Read more
Christopher Creek welcomed the rains this week. We need to squeeze out all there is from March and early April before… Read more
The Christopher Creek area has been my bailiwick for many years. There is no place that gives me more enjoyment, unle… Read more
Christopher Creek is about a two-hour drive from most parts of the Valley if you don’t dawdle in Payson. It is a leis… Read more
Rod Britain is spending time in the Valley this week and I am grateful that he asked me to fill in for him. Rod wante… Read more
Christopher Creek observed the 62nd ride of the Hashknife Pony Express with around 20 folks showing up at Creekside f… Read more
Christopher Creek was often the subject of one of the featured articles in the Tonto Trails magazine. The annual publ… Read more
Christopher Creek’s crystal, cold waters must have been quite enticing to one Bob Kiser, local entrepreneur. Having r… Read more
Christopher Creek wears a patchwork winter coat; with as much bare ground as there is snow-covered. A good quantity o… Read more
Christopher Creek closed out 2020 with a white Christmas, the breathtaking beauty of which would make Hallmark greeti… Read more
Christopher Creek crossed its collective fingers for enough snow to make a white Christmas. The mid-December parties … Read more
Christopher Creek celebrates the holiday season this weekend with three scheduled events sponsored by our two great c… Read more
Christopher Creek congratulates Payson for its recent milestone. They had an official all-time record for November ra… Read more
As local fire districts struggle to provide basic services, the Hellsgate Fire District has proposed a solution. Read more
Plenty of folks turned out to make the annual Creek Day celebration Sept. 16 a big success. Read more
Christopher Creek is a place of peace and joy, a place of happiness and pleasure, a place of giving and sharing. It i… Read more
Christopher Creek continues to flow at an accelerated rate as it has for the last three months. This is despite the f… Read more
Christopher Creek is smack dab in the middle of elk country. Now is the time of year when herds are moving from canyo… Read more
Christopher Creek celebrity, Spencer, was having breakfast at Creekside Sunday with his parents, Terry and Cheri Shor… Read more
Christopher Creek got an early shot of welcome, spring-like temperatures this week. Mid to high 60s could hang around… Read more
Christopher Creek got another crazy winter storm on Monday and Tuesday. What started out as a snow event, dropping an… Read more
Christopher Creek in years past had a much larger retiree demographic. Going back 30 years, names such as the Wilsons… Read more
Christopher Creek has been recognized with an entry in a drop-down menu on the new Payson Roundup website which debut… Read more
Christopher Creek in years past had a much larger retiree demographic. Going back 30 years, names such as the Wilsons, Byrnes, Pennington, Sim… Read more
Another Week in the Creek
Christopher Creek has been recognized with an entry in a drop-down menu on the new Payson Roundup website which debuted last Friday. If you fo… Read more
Another Week in the Creek
Christopher Creek gets a little wild from time to time. We are not talking about bears, javelina, mountain lion or nightlife. Over the last 30… Read more
Christopher Creek got snow. A record-setting snow it was not, however, but it was a good one. Read more
He has worked with rodeo stock before, but never wrestled wild bucking stock on the side of the highway. Read more
A Christopher Creek man died Monday after crashing several vehicles in a Payson intersection. Read more
Christopher Creek held its last social event of winter last Saturday. This same event is oft touted as the kickoff of the summer social calend… Read more
Christopher Creek is surrounded by great hiking trails. You are familiar with the Highline trail system, which stretches from the 260 Trailhea… Read more
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A Christopher Creek instant classic would be the best way to describe last Saturday night’s Christmas Electric Light Parade. The 17 superbly d… Read more
Christopher Creek’s new homeowners, Pam and Dave Voita, hosted Thanksgiving and a birthday celebration in their newly remodeled cabin on Uphil… Read more
Christopher Creek is normally a beautiful, babbling brook, but on Monday evening it became a boisterous, boiling, brown brew, bashing its way … Read more
Christopher Creek held a memorial for John Matus at the Creekside Restaurant last Friday afternoon. Folks from all over filled the historic bu… Read more
Christopher Creek is three miles west of Colcord Road, which winds for about 10 miles through ponderosa pine and oak trees beneath the awe-ins… Read more
