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Flagstaff| City in Arizona, USA, 400 km/249 mi north of Phoenix; population (1990) 45,900. The largest city in north central Arizona, Flagstaff is the railway and livestock-market centre for the surrounding region, and has timber mills which use the local yellow pine. The Lowell Observatory (1894) is here. Situated 129 km/80 mi south of the Grand Canyon, Flagstaff is a centre of tourism, and there are local ski resorts. |
| Close to Flagstaff are Hopi and Navajo reservations. The city's Museum of Northern Arizona documents American Indian life in the region. Annual craft exhibitions are a tourist attraction. |
| The University of Northern Arizona (1899) is in Flagstaff. Three national monuments – Sunset Crater, Wupatki, and Walnut Canyon – lie within 40 km/25 mi of Flagstaff. These fields of volcanoes are important to American Indian culture. |
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