Historic Sites, Arizona
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- Agua Caliente — Historic · Maricopa County, AZ
Historic hot-springs settlement on the Maricopa–Yuma county line north of the Gila River near Hyder. Jesuit Jacobo Sedelmayr recorded Santa Maria del Agua Ca…
- Besh-Ba-Gowah Archaeological Park — Historic · Gila County, AZ
Stabilized ~200-room Salado masonry pueblo (ca. 1225–1400 CE) on a ridge above Pinal Creek at Globe. City-run park and museum with self-guided pueblo walk — …
- Biosphere 2 — Historic · Pinal County, AZ
University of Arizona research campus at Oracle built around the sealed glass-and-steel Biosphere 2 structure — the famous early-1990s closed-system living e…
- 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…
- Brigham City — Historic · Navajo County, AZ
Short-lived 1870s Mormon colony on the Little Colorado River near present-day Winslow—one of several United Order settlements that struggled with flooding, i…
- Camp Bouse — Historic · La Paz County, AZ
Desert Training Center WWII secret camp in Butler Valley east of Bouse where ~5,500 volunteers of the 9th Tank Group trained with Canal Defense Light (CDL) ‘…
- Casa Grande Ruins National Monument — Historic · Pinal County, AZ
National monument in Coolidge preserving a Classic Period Hohokam (ancestral Sonoran Desert people) compound and the four-story caliche “Great House” (Siwañ …
- Casa Malpais Archaeological Park — Historic · Apache County, AZ
National Historic Landmark Mogollon pueblo (~AD 1260–1400) built on basalt cliffs of the Springerville volcanic field. Features a volcanic-rock Great Kiva, m…
- Clifton Chase Creek Historic District — Historic · Greenlee County, AZ
Living early copper-camp county seat squeezed into the San Francisco River canyon below Morenci: narrow Chase Creek Street retains late-19th/early-20th-centu…
- Columbine Visitor Center — Historic · Graham County, AZ
Civilian Conservation Corps–era USFS Columbine Ranger Station residence (c. 1935) on Mount Graham’s Swift Trail (AZ 366), now Coronado National Forest visito…
- Congress — Historic · Yavapai County, AZ
Gold-mining center for the Congress Mine (discovered 1884; major production into the 1930s) west of Wickenburg. The Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway se…
- Coolidge Dam — Historic · Gila County, AZ
Multiple-dome concrete dam completed in 1928 on the Gila River, named for President Calvin Coolidge and built to store irrigation water for the San Carlos Pr…
- 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…
- 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…
- Duncan Historic District — Historic · Greenlee County, AZ
Upper Gila Valley farm-and-rail town near the New Mexico line whose surviving commercial and residential streetscape records Greenlee’s non-Morenci mining-an…
- Ehrenberg — Historic · La Paz County, AZ
Colorado River landing and supply town opposite the California shore, a late-nineteenth-century freight hub later bypassed by rail and highways. Historic pin…
- Empire Ranch Headquarters — Historic · Pima County, AZ
Historic cattle-ranch headquarters (1870s onward) at the heart of Las Cienegas National Conservation Area southeast of Tucson. Adobe and board-and-batten bui…
- Fort Apache Historic District — Historic · Navajo County, AZ
Fort Apache Historic District is a historic district in Navajo County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, recognized for signifi…
- 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…
- Fort Tuthill Historic District — Historic · Coconino County, AZ
Fort Tuthill Historic District is a historic district in Coconino County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, recognized for sign…
- Fort Verde State Historic Park — Historic · Yavapai County, AZ
Best-preserved Indian Wars–era U.S. Army fort in Arizona, in Camp Verde. Original 1870s–1880s officers’ quarters and administration building house furnished …
- Franklin — Historic · Greenlee County, AZ
Small Gila Valley farm settlement a few miles south of Duncan, founded by Mormon pioneers in the 1890s along the river bottom near the New Mexico line. Survi…
- Hackberry — Historic · Mohave County, AZ
Former Music Mountains silver camp that became a Route 66 service stop northeast of Kingman. Nearly abandoned after Interstate 40 bypassed the corridor, it r…
- Harquahala Peak Observatory — Historic · La Paz County, AZ
Ruins of a 1920s Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory solar-radiation station on the 5,681-ft summit of Harquahala Mountain—highest peak in southwestern Ari…
- Heliograph Peak — Historic · Graham County, AZ
10,022-ft peak on the Swift Trail (AZ-366) in the Pinaleño Mountains with a CCC-era 100-ft fire lookout still used in fire season. Named for late-1880s U.S. …
- Hi Jolly Monument — Historic · La Paz County, AZ
National Register pyramid tomb of Hadji Ali (“Hi Jolly”), Syrian-born camel driver for the 1850s U.S. Army Camel Corps experiment, in Quartzsite’s pioneer ce…
- Homolovi State Park — Historic · Navajo County, AZ
Ancestral Hopi pueblo cluster on the Little Colorado River floodplain just north of Winslow — Homol’ovi, “Place of the Little Hills.” Four main villages occu…
- Hospital Flat Campground — Historic · Graham County, AZ
High meadow campground on Mount Graham’s Swift Trail (AZ 366) named for the 1880s U.S. Army field hospital that treated ailing Fort Grant soldiers and later …
- Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site — Historic · Apache County, AZ
Oldest continuously operated trading post on the Navajo Nation (est. 1878 by John Lorenzo Hubbell) at Ganado, preserved as an NPS national historic site and …
- Lees Ferry — Historic · Coconino County, AZ
Historic Colorado River crossing and the operational start of Grand Canyon river trips inside Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Lonely Dell Ranch, ferry-…
- McFarland State Historic Park — Historic · Pinal County, AZ
Arizona State Parks museum in Florence preserving the 1878 adobe-and-timber Pinal County courthouse and later structures tied to territorial justice and U.S.…
- Montezuma Castle National Monument — Historic · Yavapai County, AZ
Iconic five-story Southern Sinagua cliff dwelling (~20 rooms) set ~90 ft up a limestone alcove above Beaver Creek in the Verde Valley—one of the best-preserv…
- Morenci Mine Overlook — Historic · Greenlee County, AZ
Public highway overlook on US 191 above Freeport-McMoRan’s Morenci operation—one of North America’s largest open-pit copper mines and the modern successor to…
- Navajo Bridge Interpretive Center — Historic · Coconino County, AZ
Twin steel-arch spans over Marble Canyon on US 89A— the 1929 historic bridge is now a pedestrian walkway 467 ft above the Colorado River, with a Glen Canyon …
- Navajo National Monument (Betatakin Overlook) — Historic · Navajo County, AZ
Free NPS unit on the Navajo Nation protecting Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in Tsegi Canyon country. The paved Sandal Trail from the visitor center ends…
- Painted Desert Inn — Historic · Apache County, AZ
National Historic Landmark pueblo-revival lodge on the Painted Desert rim inside Petrified Forest National Park. Originally a 1920s tourist inn later redesig…
- Pipe Spring National Monument — Historic · Mohave County, AZ
Desert oasis fort (Winsor Castle) on the Arizona Strip where perennial spring water supported Ancestral Puebloans, Kaibab Paiute, and 19th-century Mormon ran…
- Poston Butte — Historic · Pinal County, AZ
Small desert butte above Florence capped by a stone pyramid tomb for Charles D. Poston—'Father of Arizona'—who promoted the Arizona Territory and is buried o…
- Poston Memorial Monument — Historic · La Paz County, AZ
Outdoor memorial on the Colorado River Indian Reservation south of Parker marking the Poston War Relocation Center—the largest of the WWII WRA camps by area,…
- Powers Garden — Historic · Graham County, AZ
Remote pioneer ranch/mining homestead in Rattlesnake Canyon of the Galiuro Wilderness—Power family ranch and garden core with surviving small house fabric, r…
- Sears-Kay Ruin — Historic · Maricopa County, AZ
Free Tonto National Forest interpretive site north of Carefree: a hilltop Hohokam fortification (~1050–1200 CE) with masonry room blocks and panoramic desert…
- Shoofly Village Ruins — Historic · Gila County, AZ
Tonto National Forest day-use archaeological site north of Payson: a ~3.75-acre Pre-Columbian village (ca. A.D. 1000–1250) with rock wall outlines of about 7…
- Snaketown — Historic · Pinal County, AZ
Hohokam ancestral village site (NHL 1964, NRHP) excavated and deliberately backfilled; CLOSED to the public on Gila River Indian Community land with no visit…
- Theodore Roosevelt Dam — Historic · Gila County, AZ
Flagship Reclamation-era dam (dedicated 1911) on the Salt River that created Roosevelt Lake and underwrote the Salt River Project’s Phoenix valley agricultur…
- Titan Missile Museum — Historic · Pima County, AZ
Sole remaining Titan II ICBM complex open to the public (former site 571-7), a National Historic Landmark south of Tucson. Guided underground tours visit the…
- 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…
- Tonto National Monument — Historic · Gila County, AZ
National Park Service monument above Roosevelt Lake protecting well-preserved 13th–15th century Salado cliff dwellings in the Sonoran Desert fringe of the Su…
- Tortilla Flat — Historic · Maricopa County, AZ
Last surviving stagecoach stop on the historic Apache Trail (SR-88) deep in the Superstition Mountains. Grew from a prospector camp into a Roosevelt Dam frei…
- Tubac Presidio State Historic Park — Historic · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Arizona’s oldest Spanish presidio site (San Ignacio de Tubac, founded 1752) with excavated foundations, 1885 schoolhouse, museum, and Juan Bautista de Anza N…
- Tumacácori National Historical Park — Historic · Santa Cruz County, AZ
National Historical Park preserving Spanish colonial mission ruins on the Santa Cruz River — Mission San José de Tumacácori (Jesuit founding 1691; present ch…
- Tuzigoot National Monument — Historic · Yavapai County, AZ
National Park Service monument protecting a Sinagua pueblo crowning a Verde Valley limestone ridge above the river and Tavasci Marsh. Self-guided paths climb…
- Valley of the Moon — Historic · Pima County, AZ
Valley of the Moon is a historic district in Pima County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, recognized for significance in arch…
- Walnut Canyon National Monument — Historic · Coconino County, AZ
National Park Service monument southeast of Flagstaff preserving Sinagua cliff dwellings (roughly 1100–1250 CE) tucked into limestone alcoves of a 350-foot-d…
- 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…
- Windsor Square Historic District — Historic · Maricopa County, AZ
Windsor Square Historic District is a historic district in Maricopa County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, recognized for si…
- Wupatki National Monument — Historic · Coconino County, AZ
NPS monument protecting multi-story Sinagua/Ancestral Pueblo masonry pueblos (Wupatki Pueblo 100+ rooms, Wukoki, Citadel) on volcanic ash-enriched desert gra…
- Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park — Historic · Yuma County, AZ
Arizona Territory’s infamous prison (1876–1909) on a bluff above the Colorado River in Yuma. Stone and adobe cellblocks, the main gate, guard tower, and muse…