Cochise County, Arizona
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- Bisbee Historic District — Historic · Cochise County, AZ
Bisbee Historic District is a historic district in Cochise County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, recognized for significanc…
- Cascabel — Natural · Cochise County, AZ
San Pedro River valley settlement and corridor north of Benson, a cottonwood-lined reach used by ranching and birding traffic. Field pin for the middle San P…
- Cave Creek Canyon — Wildlife · Cochise County, AZ
World-class sky-island birding canyon on the east side of the Chiricahua Mountains above Portal. Coronado National Forest creek corridor with Arizona sycamor…
- Charleston Historic Townsite — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
San Pedro River mill and supply town (1870s–1880s) that fed Tombstone’s silver boom; sister site Millville sat across the river. Today only foundations, wall…
- Chiricahua National Monument (Massai Point) — Geology · Cochise County, AZ
National Park Service monument protecting a “wonderland of rocks” — tall rhyolite hoodoos and balanced rocks carved from 27-million-year-old Turkey Creek Cal…
- Cochise Stronghold — Natural · Cochise County, AZ
Granite domes and oak-juniper canyons in the Dragoon Mountains where Chiricahua Apache leader Cochise held out in the 1860s–70s. Coronado National Forest cam…
- Contention City — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
1880s San Pedro River silver-milling boomtown for Tombstone-area ore, centered on the Contention and Grand Central mills. Peak population was about two hundr…
- Coronado National Memorial — Historic · Cochise County, AZ
National Park Service memorial on the southeast flank of the Huachuca Mountains at the U.S.–Mexico border, commemorating Francisco Vásquez de Coronado’s 1540…
- Courtland — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Copper-boom ghost town (founded 1909, post office closed 1942) on the Ghost Town Trail between Gleeson and Pearce at the foot of the Dragoon Mountains. Peak …
- Dos Cabezas — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Ghost town in the Dos Cabezas Mountains of Cochise County—Spanish for “two heads,” after twin peaks—once a mining camp and ranch community near five thousand…
- Douglas Historic District — Historic · Cochise County, AZ
Douglas Historic District is a historic district in Cochise County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, recognized for significan…
- Fairbank Historic Townsite — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Quiet BLM ghost town on the San Pedro River about ten miles west of Tombstone, with a restored schoolhouse, mercantile ruins, and short interpretive walks. O…
- Fort Bowie National Historic Site — Historic · Cochise County, AZ
National Park Service hike-in historic site at Apache Pass preserving adobe ruins of the 1860s–1894 U.S. Army post that guarded the pass, Butterfield Stage r…
- Gleeson — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Copper-camp ghost town on the south slope of the Dragoon Mountains, on the Ghost Town Trail with Courtland and Pearce. Peak early-1900s mining left foundatio…
- Kartchner Caverns State Park — Geology · Cochise County, AZ
Living limestone show cave in the Whetstone foothills south of Benson, discovered 1974 and kept secret until state protection. Arizona State Parks operates c…
- Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge — Wildlife · Cochise County, AZ
Small U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service refuge (~2,770 acres) north of Douglas protecting rare Río Yaqui drainage riparian gallery forest and habitat for endanger…
- Paradise — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Chiricahua Mountains mining camp west of Portal, settled in 1901 after a copper and silver find, with a post office from 1901 to 1943. Peak fabric included s…
- Parker Canyon Lake — Wildlife · Cochise County, AZ
Oak-woodland reservoir at the base of the Huachuca Mountains on Coronado National Forest—an out-of-the-way birding, fishing, and camping oasis 25 miles south…
- Pearce — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Pearce grew after the 1894 Commonwealth gold strike on the east flank of the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County. A few commercial ruins and a cemetery remai…
- Ramsey Canyon Preserve — Wildlife · Cochise County, AZ
Nature Conservancy sky-island preserve in the Huachuca Mountains where Sierra Madre, Rocky Mountain, and Sonoran/Chihuahuan biotas meet. Spring-fed Ramsey Cr…
- San Pedro Riparian NCA (San Pedro House) — Wildlife · Cochise County, AZ
Primary visitor gateway to the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area — a rare perennial desert river corridor and internationally known birding site …
- Texas Canyon — Natural · Cochise County, AZ
Striking granite boulder field where Interstate 10 cuts the Little Dragoon Mountains. Balanced rocks and stacked tors frame both eastbound and westbound ADOT…
- Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park — Historic · Cochise County, AZ
1882 Victorian red-brick courthouse that served as Cochise County seat through Tombstone’s silver boom and the era of the OK Corral. Now an Arizona State Par…
- Warren Historic District — Historic · Cochise County, AZ
Warren Historic District is a historic district in Cochise County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025, recognized for significanc…
- Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area — Wildlife · Cochise County, AZ
AZ Game and Fish 1,500-acre wetland and grassland near McNeal, famous as a major winter roost for 20,000+ sandhill cranes plus waterfowl and raptors. Managed…
- Willcox Playa — Wildlife · Cochise County, AZ
Vast remnant Pleistocene dry lake south of Willcox that hosts winter roosts of thousands of sandhill cranes and supports exceptional tiger-beetle diversity. …