Information on Lyman Lake wakeboard boat rentals, jet ski rentals, and water sport charters and lessons. Lyman Lake has over 1,500 acres of water surface, and is the largest lake in the Arizona White Mountains area. If you're a boating enthusiast and enjoy waterskiing, or wakeboarding this is an ideal lake environment. Located just 17 miles north of Springerville AZ within Lyman Lake State Park, there is no power restriction on towboats, so leisure boating, speed boating, wakesurfing, waverunner, personal watercraft, and water-skiing is permitted at Lyman.
But the west end of the lake is buoyed-off as a "no wake area" creating a safer swimming and convenient shore fishing, and swimming area. Lyman Lake is open all year, but the convenience store is only open from early April to the end of September. The lake's elevation is about 6,000 feet. The best time to visit is in the spring, summer and early fall for water sport lessons and guided lake tours. Summer temperatures are in the comfortable high 80's to low 90's.
Information on Upper Lake Mary in Arizona which offers ski boat rentals, and PWC personal watercraft rental. Lake Mary is about 12 miles southeast of in a heavy forested area in the Morman Lake District of the Coconino National Forest. It is a beautiful sky blue lake surrounded by Ponderosa Pines and meadows with views of the San Francisco Peaks. The "Upper Lake" is not to be confused with its twin sister, "Lower Lake Mary" which is usually close to being empty. Upper Lake Mary is much larger but is a bit farther traveling distance.
Upper Lake Mary is a long and narrow lake that is popular with power boaters, wakeboarders, wakesurfers, wake skating, and water skiers. But you'll also see sailboats, kayaks, sea doo's, jet skis, canoes and even rubber rafts. At an elevation of about 7,000 feet the summer temperatures rarely reach the 90 degree F range. Upper Lake Mary was named after Mary Riordan, a member of one of the Flagstaff's founding families.
Information on Alamo Lake State Park boat rentals and jet ski rental. Alamo Lake is one of Arizona's best kept secrets because hardly anyone knows and used this lake, which makes it a great destination for those who want to learn new water activities. The stark desert beauty is reflected off the water. Cacti dot the mountainous landscape that surround the lake.
Nestled in the Bill Williams River Valley away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, Alamo Lake State Park offers outdoor fun, wakeboard lessons, waverunner rentals, kneeboard instruction, slalom skiing, watercraft rentals, premier bass fishing, rest and relaxation. For nature lovers, spring rains bring an abundance of wild flowers and the lake environment attracts a variety of wildlife year round, including bald and golden eagles, waterfowl, foxes, coyotes, mule deer and wild burros. Stargazers are sure to enjoy the unbelievable view of the night sky with the nearest city lights some forty miles away at Alamo Lake!