The community has a broad range of facilities, including an area high school dome seating 5,000, a library, a museum (Cushman Art Collection), a heated Olympic-size swimming pool, two racquetball courts, a lighted tennis court, athletic facilities at the school/community gym, such as football and baseball fields, and several parks: Downtown Mini Park, and City Park (includes Historic Park).

Becker Lake (two miles west) has a history as one of the southwest's best trout producers. Lyman Lake State Park (17 miles northwest on U.S. 180) offers fishing, swimming, boating, water skiing, camping, buffalo, Indian petroglyphs, Rattlesnake Ruins and picnic facilities.

The community offers a variety of accommodations (motels, cabins, trailer parks and campgrounds) to suit visitor needs. Complete shopping and professional services are also available.

Springerville is also the nearest full-service community to Apache Sunrise Ski Resort, owned and operated by the White Mountain Apache tribe (26 miles southwest). Sunrise offers ski programs for all ages and more than 60 trails at an elevation of up to 11,000 feet.

The communities of Alpine (20 miles southeast) and Greer (17 miles southwest) offer cross country ski trails, along with sledding, snowmobiling, and other winter recreation. Springerville serves as a tourism hub to the Blue Range Wilderness Area, three Indian reservations, Petrified Forest, Gila National Forest, Indian petroglyphs, and volcanic formations.

In addition to communication resources from the rest of the state, Eagar has daily, bi-weekly, and weekly newspapers, several radio stations from Show Low and Springerville, and television channels from Tucson and Phoenix. Cable television is also available.

Eagar has one elementary school, one intermediate school, one middle school and one high school with a state-of-the-art high tech center. Springerville and Eagar are combined into one district serving both towns. Northland Pioneer College offers continuing education courses depending on course pre-enrollment. Northern Arizona University offers undergraduate and graduate programs; for information, call (520) 367-1152.

Complete medical facilities are available in Eagar and near-by Springerville (2 miles away). These include: a hospital with 44 beds, 10 assisted living apartments, six physicians, three dentists, two chiropractors, two orthopedists, and one optometrist.

There are two bank branch offices in the area. Also, Apache County businesses are eligible for assistance in financing fixed assets through the Finance Division of the Arizona Department of Commerce. Information on private activity bonds within the county may be obtained from the same source or from the Industrial Development Authority of Apache County; P.O. Box 772; St. Johns, Arizona 85736 or the Apache County Economic Security Council (ACES) (520) 337-2644.

Eagar is governed by a mayor, six council members and a town manager. There also is a police department, sheriff's department and a fire department with 20 volunteers.

Residents of Eagar have access to the Springerville Municipal Airport with a lighted and paved 6,600-foot runway, and a 5,600-foot paved crosswind runway.

There are 221.67 acres available with some utilities. For further information, contact the Apache County Board of Realtors, P.O. Box 1888, Springerville, AZ 85938; or call ACES (520) 337-2644.

There is one 40-room motel with meeting facilities, as well as six motels in Springerville with 206 rooms, and one meeting facility with seating for up to 900 people and numerous meeting areas in the Dome. Eagar also offers nine trailer parks with 228 spaces.