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Big Lake
A trout reservoir in the White Mountains of Apache County, managed by the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests and frozen over each winter.
- Rank in Arizona
- #188of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 46.6 out of 100medium confidence
- Most looked up
- Julyby Wikipedia readers
- Category
- Natural Landmark
Big Lake is a reservoir in the White Mountains of Apache County, Arizona, managed by the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. It is a trout water. As at most trout waters in the state, catch rates are best in spring, in late April and May once the winter ice has thawed, and again from later in the summer into the autumn, until the lake freezes over again in late November.
Where it is
Big Lake is a natural landmark near St. Johns, in Apache County. It is one of the natural landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Big Lake, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.biglakeaz.com(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
More photographs
Alan English CPA from Scottsdale, Arizona 85254, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · licence(opens in a new tab) · source(opens in a new tab) 
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Nearby attractions
8.6 miles away
Mount Baldy
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White Mountains
A mountainous region of eastern Arizona rising to Mount Baldy at 11,400 feet, much of it within the Fort Apache Indian Reservation.
18 miles away
Escudilla Mountain
The third-highest mountain peak in Arizona, in the White Mountains, where the state's last grizzly bear was killed in 1936.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- St. Johns
- County
- Apache County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 46.6 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 32.9
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- biglakeaz.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.8847, -109.4150
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12