Pinal County, Arizona
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- Adamsville — Ghost Town · Pinal County, AZ
One of Pinal County’s earliest Anglo farming settlements (founded 1870s on the Gila River west of Florence). Floods and the rise of Florence emptied the town…
- 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…
- Boyce Thompson Arboretum — Natural · Pinal County, AZ
Arizona’s oldest and largest botanical garden (founded 1924) in Queen Creek canyon under Picketpost Mountain west of Superior. Living desert-plant museum, 1.…
- 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 …
- Lost Dutchman State Park — Natural · Pinal County, AZ
320-acre Arizona State Park at the base of the Superstition Mountains on the Apache Trail (SR 88) north of Apache Junction. Named for the legendary Lost Dutc…
- 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.…
- Oracle State Park — Natural · Pinal County, AZ
4,000-acre oak-grassland park on the north slope of the Santa Catalinas: Kannally Ranch House, multi-use trails, and International Dark Sky Park status. Dese…
- Picacho Peak State Park — Natural · Pinal County, AZ
Arizona State Park centered on a volcanic basalt peak rising ~1,500 ft above the I-10 corridor between Phoenix and Tucson. Known for spring wildflower displa…
- Picketpost Mountain — Geology · Pinal County, AZ
Distinctive flat-topped volcanic remnant rising above the Superior desert, named as a historic military signal/picket post landmark. Popular steep scramble/h…
- 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…
- Sasco — Ghost Town · Pinal County, AZ
Smelter town built for the Southern Arizona Smelting Company on the desert north of the Santa Cruz–Ironwood country. Ore from Silver Bell and nearby camps on…
- 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…
- Weavers Needle — Geology · Pinal County, AZ
Prominent volcanic-tuff spire and erosional remnant in the Superstition Mountains, summit elevation 4,555 feet and roughly a thousand feet of relief above th…