Spiders Around Queen Creek Homes and Open Desert
Queen Creek sits in the valley below the San Tan Mountains, where citrus, cotton, pecans and vegetables are still grown. San Tan Mountain Regional Park, a Maricopa County park of more than 10,000 acres on the town’s south edge, shifts from creosote flats to dense saguaro forest. Wash trails link neighborhoods to the park, and the roughly six mile Queen Creek Wash Trail passes open space, farmland and residential communities.
About 95 percent of Queen Creek housing units (20,622 of 21,724) are single-family detached homes, and about 91 percent of occupied homes (18,788 of 20,677) are owner-occupied, so a yard, a garage and a patio are where spider prevention usually begins. Town code requires properties to be kept free of rubbish, trash, weeds, filth, debris and dead or dry vegetation, and tidy yards also leave spiders fewer places to settle.