McDowell Mountain Ranch is located in Scottsdale, Arizona at the base of the McDowell Mountain Preserve. The ranch offers many amenities including a community center with a pool, basketball courts, volleyball courts, and tennis courts. Within the community is the Desert Canyon Shopping Center with over 60,000 square feet of retail, medical, and office spaces. For families with school-aged children there is an elementary and a middle school as well as a public library. If golf is what you're looking for then look no further than Sanctuary Golf Course. Sanctuary is an eighteen hole, par 71 course that covers 6,624 square feet. Sanctuary's clubhouse is also a full service clubhouse with a restaurant and pavillion. McDowell also offers miles of trails and pathways that will get you anywhere within the community or out to the mountains for some hiking.