Mountainaire

Mountainaire is a cabin community that grew into a full-time neighborhood. It sits just off I-17 at the Mountainaire Road exit, across the freeway from Kachina Village, in unincorporated Coconino County at about 6,950 feet. The original subdivision was platted between 1960 and 1964 as 792 small lots, and the 2020 Census counted 629 housing units. Around the core, the county zones larger parcels at a ten-acre minimum, so you get a small village ringed by forest and acreage.

We love Mountainaire for buyers who want the forest at a price the city stopped offering years ago.

In the last twelve months, the MLS shows 20 single-family closings between $395,000 and $715,000, with a median of $489,750 and the middle half between about $439,000 and $598,000. Homes are small: the typical sale was about 1,210 square feet, and several were under 1,000. The median build year was 1984, and the mix runs from 1970s A-frames and cabins to a handful of newer builds. Median days on market was 70.

There is no homeowners association, which people either love or need to hear twice. The Mountainaire Tavern is the neighborhood's gathering spot, Lower Lake Mary is a short drive away, and national forest surrounds the village. Every spring a Firewise clean-up hauls away residents' pine needles and yard debris, run by state crews in 2026.