APEX

NAME: Apex
COUNTY: Coconino
ROADS: 4WD
LEGAL INFO: T29N, R2E
CLIMATE: Cold winter; Hot summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Winter, fall
COMMENTS: At milepost 52 on the old Grand Canyon RR .
REMAINS: Scrap and trash.
Founded as a company town by the old Grand Canyon RR for the construction crews. It existed from 1928 to 1936. It had a school and all other amenities of a town but never had a post office.


Apex - Section House used by railroad workers - shot from the cab of the Grand Canyon Railway Locomotive Heading North - Building is on the west side of the tracks.
Courtesy Ryan Harris

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