Camp Verde is located 85 miles north of Phoenix and 55 miles south of Flagstaff in Yavapai County. The weather is arid, the summer days are often cooled by monsoons rains and the winters are mild. Camp Verde's valley floor is classified as Lower Sonoran Desert. However, because it is situated on the Verde River, Camp Verde occupies a rare and enviable position among Arizona cities and towns.

      The community possesses some of the oldest and finest historic resources in the Verde Valley. Camp Verde is unique to Arizona because it has examples of buildings from its entire history. Such resources are important links to the past representing the people and events that made the Town what it is today. These special places give Camp Verde a sense of its uniqueness and roots. For Example, Fort Verde State Historic Park annually draws approximately 40,000 visitors to the center of Camp Verde, and nearby Montezuma Castle attracts over one million visitors to the area annually.

      The Camp Verde area consists of fields of flat river-plain, traversed by the Verde River (18 miles of river lies within the town limits) and its tributaries, with desert hills and mesas rising in the forefront of the distant mountains. Beyond the immediate town, most of the land is owned by the U.S. Forest Service.

      The Town of Camp Verde plans to maintain its western, rural, and historic atmosphere while meeting the needs of its citizens by providing shopping and employment opportunities along with reasonably priced housing.