The entire area around FR-117 can be excellent birding. The main attraction is Dusky Grouse but look also for Gray Jay, American Three-Toed Woodpecker, and other high-elevation birds.

Greens Peak is the highest of a set of rounded knolls sitting atop a raised highland north of Mount Baldy, in the White Mountains of Eastern Arizona. The White Mountains and surrounding terrain are part of the Springerville Volcanic Field, the second-largest such field in the country (the largest also being in Arizona, the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona). Greens Peak is named after Major John Green, who was a principal figure in the creation of Fort Apache.