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Carefree, Arizona Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Carefree, Arizona from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Carefree building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Carefree, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and FEMA. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Carefree artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Carefree. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Carefree brings back fond memories.
Explore the full map of Carefree, Arizona and read about the local places it shows.
Find your street
Names on the Carefree map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks3
- Carefree Town Hall
- Carefree Foothills
- Desert Forest Golf Club
Streets and roads133
- East Stagecoach Pass
- Grapevine Road
- El Sendero Road
- Rising Sun Road
- North 80th Street
- Mule Train Road
- Serene Street
- North Mule Train Road
- North Boulder Drive
- East Linger Lane
- Carefree Drive
- Cow Track Drive
- East Old Paint Trail
- East Restin Road
- North 61st Street
- 66th Place
- Sombrero Road
- East Cave Creek Road
- East Carefree Highway
- North Cave Creek Road
- North Tom Darlington Drive
- Long Rifle Road
- Paint Pony Drive
- Silver Saddle Drive
- Spanish Boot Road
- Romping Road
- North Pima Road
- Ocotillo Ridge Drive
- Auto Plane Drive
- Autoplane Drive
Show all 133 streets
- East Leisure Lane
- East Serene Street
- North Tranquil Trail
- North Sidewinder Road
- Wildflower Road
- North Twilight Trail
- Secluded Lane
- Sunset Trail
- Scopa Trail
- East Horizon Drive
- Stevens Road
- Boulder Drive
- North 58th Street
- Concho Lane
- East Languid Lane
- Celestial Street
- Smoketree Road
- Tom Darlington Drive
- Peaceful Place
- Double Eagle Drive
- Meander Way
- Primrose Path
- Easy Street
- Lazy Lane
- Hum Road
- East Sundance Trail
- Tumacacori Way
- Tree Lined Trail
- Ridgeview Lane
- Staghorn Lane
- Lazy Burro Road
- Dog Leg Drive
- Breathless Drive
- Holiday Lane
- Venus Drive
- Agave Place
- Arroyo Road
- Father Kino Trail
- East Trail Drive
- Golden Spur Road
- South Stardust Lane
- North Dream Street
- East Long Rifle Road
- Golden Spur Lane
- Ironwood Road
- North Never Mind Trail
- Nonchalant Avenue
- North Concho Lane
- East Lazywood Place
- North Carefree Mountain Drive
- Dream Street
- North Whileaway Road
- Canyon Creek Circle
- Ocotillo Circle
- West Quail Trail
- East Ridgeview Place
- Never Mind Trail
- Verde Vista Trail
- Coronado Trail
- Eagle Claw Drive
- Crested Quail Run
- Valley View Circle
- Branding Iron Road
- Short Putt Place
- La Ultima Piedra
- Mountainside Drive
- Stage Coach Pass
- Bivouac Trail
- Rising Star Way
- East Lazy Lane
- Coyote Pass
- North Los Reales Road
- Sunrise Circle
- Tamayo Street
- North 66th Place
- North Ridgeway Drive
- Horizon Drive
- East Perdido Drive
- Hawksnest Road
- North Placid Place
- East Arroyo Hondo
- Rambling Road
- Sophora Drive
- North Windmill Road
- East El Sendora Road
- East Scopa Trail
- North Piedra Grande Drive
- Chino Lane
- Sun Rock Way
- Canyon Ridge Drive
- Aribiome Court
- Tubac Trail
- Ho Road
- North Rising Sun Road
- North Secluded Lane
- North Arroyo Road
- North Nighthawk Way
- East Happy Hollow Drive
- Tranquil Place
- East New River Road
- Canotia Place
- Hidden Canyon
- Quails Nest
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Carefree, Arizona
Carefree is a town of 3,690 people in Maricopa County, north of Phoenix and Scottsdale. In the mid-1950s two business partners, K.T. Palmer and Tom Darlington, laid out the whole place as a master-planned community before anyone lived there. Lots went on sale in 1955, and builders started on the first houses in 1958.
Long before that, the Hohokam lived around Black Mountain, the peak Carefree shares with Cave Creek. It climbs more than 1,000 feet above both towns to 3,398 feet, and signs of the Hohokam there begin about 750 and fade around 1450. In 1984 Carefree incorporated as a town of its own so that neighboring Scottsdale could not annex it.
- A sundial 90 feet acrossJoe Wong, an architect, and John I. Yellott, a solar engineer, designed the Carefree Sundial, which was finished in 1959 and stands in the Sundial Circle plaza. Its steel frame is clad in anodized copper and aimed at the North Star. The dial is 90 feet wide, and its gnomon rises 35 feet over the plaza and stretches 72 feet. The town calls it the third largest sundial in the Western Hemisphere.
- A movie studio in the desertFred Graham, an actor, stuntman and Arizona Film Commissioner, opened Fred Graham Studios here in 1968 on 160 acres, with three soundstages and a backlot.
- Southwestern StudiosUnder the name Southwestern Studios, the lot hosted The New Dick Van Dyke Show on Stage 1 in the early 1970s and Bob Hope's last feature film, Cancel My Reservation. Its western street, first built for Bill Cosby's Man and Boy, later appeared in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. The studio was later called Carefree Studios, and in 1999 it was demolished to make room for shops and homes.
- Hugh Downs and FoursomeThe broadcaster Hugh Downs lived in Carefree and used the local studio to produce and host two pilot episodes of Foursome in 1973 and 1974. The show mixed a game show with a talk show. In one episode Janet Leigh, Robert Culp, Jo Anne Worley and Alan Sues played tennis.
- Carefree Highway, 1974On a drive from Flagstaff to Phoenix, Gordon Lightfoot passed a road sign pointing the way to Carefree. He jotted the words down and carried the note in his suitcase for eight months before turning it into a song. Carefree Highway climbed the Billboard Hot 100 as high as No. 10. The real road, part of State Route 74, begins at Tom Darlington Drive and heads west for roughly 30 miles, ending at Lake Pleasant Parkway in Peoria.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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