Lo Lo Mai Springs is a very special place. For centuries it has been home to the Indians of Central Arizona. Ruins of the dwellings of the Sinagua Indians remain atop the hills that shadow the resort in the afternoons.
Lo Lo Mai is a Hopi Indian word. It can be used as a greeting with many meanings, as "Aloha" is used in Hawaiian. It also means "beautiful," and this meaning was the one intended when the resort was opened as a modern day campground in the middle 1950's.
The reason people have come here for centuries is the presence of a natural resource that is rare in Arizona - WATER! The resort stretches along a mile of Oak Creek, a waterway recently given federal recognition as a "unique waterway." But not only does the resort lie along the water, it lies above an ancient aquifer - a stratum of earth or porous rock that contains water. This wealth of underground water nourishes the giant cottonwoods, sycamores and evergreens that cover the land. So in an area that is mostly desert, nature has given us an oasis of trees, shrubs, grass and springs.