The Apache Junction Unified School District is one of our area’s greatest assets boasting a high school, one junior high school, and four elementary schools. All have aggressive education programs to maintain scholastic excellence for the community’s nearly 5,000 students. There are Charter schools as an alternative to public education. Central Arizona College’s local campus offers vocational credit classes, GED preparation, continuing education courses, and a career-counseling center.

Medical and emergency service in the area include: Banner Goldfield Medical Center, Banner Baywood Medical Center, Banner Health Hospital, Heaven’s Medical, Sun Life Health Center, Mountain Vista Medical Center, Mountain Health & Wellness, a 911 system, ambulance service, emergency helicopter transport, wellness clinics, and private practitioners in the medical, dental, chiropractic, and veterinary services.

We are a small town, but we do have a growing commercial base including several major chains and hundreds of local businesses. With its mining and transportation roots in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Apache Junction did not develop a traditional central downtown but spread slowly along the Apache Trail.  The city is actively working to develop the area as a 21st-century centerpiece while striving to maintain its unique and historic feel.  The downtown area has experienced a number of recent redevelopment efforts that will result in the addition of a downtown public gathering space, a more traditional “main street” roadway network, and in the coming year, a new private development that will add over 200,000 square feet of new retail space for Apache Junction shoppers.  Despite growth and redevelopment, Apache Junction will remain a city of wide-open spaces and a gateway to natural splendor because of its location and setting, and proudly holds the official trademark and title “Home of the Superstition Mountains”.

The heart of the city is where the historic “Junction” once led travelers from the urban oasis into the vast mountain wilderness in search of the legendary Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine. Today, it boasts retail, entertainment, and recreational options for all ages. And there’s room to add to the existing unique options for new and diverse selections of merchandise and cuisine. Freeway frontage opportunity abounds along the main freeway corridor through Apache Junction that runs through the community. The freeway also provides easy access to other transportation corridors.
The freeway also provides easy access to other transportation corridors, two major airports, Phoenix Sky Harbor and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway, within minutes, and provides easy access to housing communities to the East. Several existing sites are available with even more opportunities for growth on State Lands as disposition occurs (twelve square miles of development potential within existing city limits)

• Arizona Renaissance Festival attracting over some quarter-million visitors during their two-month celebration.
• Lost Dutchman State Park attracting over a hundred thousand visitors annually, with breathtaking views, hiking, and recreational opportunities.
• Superstition Mountain Museum continues to expand and is the source for everything having to do with the region.
• The Lost Dutchman Marathon, known as one of the best-run marathons, regularly attracting both national, and international participants.
• The Goldfield Ghost Town- the only authentic ghost town in the Valley with hundreds of thousands of visitors enjoying horseback riding, zip lines, cowboy shootouts, and rail tours of the town.
• Tortilla Flat, an authentic remnant of an old stage stop and a haven for tourists, motorcycles, and those meandering the historic Apache Trail.
• Central Arizona College’s Superstition Mountain Campus sits in the heart of the downtown and serves the region with a variety of programs to meet the needs of all ages.