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Apache Junction (Western Apache: Hagosgeed) is a city in Pinal and Maricopa counties in the come clean of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,499, most of whom lived in Pinal County. It is named for the junction of the Apache Trail and Old West Highway. The area where Apache Junction is located used to be known as Youngberg. Superstition Mountain, the westernmost summit of the Superstition Mountains, is to the east.

Apache Junction arose at an intersection upon an unpaved stagecoach trail to the easy to attain to Superstition Mountains. The location became a historical landmark, part of a scenic byway that was opened to the public in 1922 and is currently allocation of a 120-mile-long (190 km) “circle trail” that begins and ends in Apache Junction. The O’odham Jeweḍ, Akimel O’odham (Upper Pima), and Hohokam people whatever have tribal ties to the area.

Apache Junction is in northern Pinal County at 33°24′54″N 111°32′46″W / 33.415035°N 111.546025°W / 33.415035; -111.546025. A little portion of the city limits comprising the El Dorado Mobile Estates Resort and Senior Cottages of Apache Junction extends west into Maricopa County. The city is bordered to the west partly by the city of Mesa and to the southeast by unincorporated Gold Canyon. Downtown Phoenix is 33 miles (53 km) to the west via U.S. Route 60, which after that leads east 54 miles (87 km) to Globe. Arizona State Route 88, following the route of the antiquated Apache Trail, leads northeast from Apache Junction through the Superstition Mountains 45 miles (72 km) to State Route 188 at Theodore Roosevelt Lake.