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Bumble Bee
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Agua Fria National Monument
A 72,344-acre national monument north of Phoenix, holding over 450 recorded Native American structures on Bureau of Land Management land.
- Rank in Arizona
- #32of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 59.8 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- National Monument
Agua Fria National Monument is a national monument in Arizona, approximately 40 miles north of downtown Phoenix. It was created by presidential proclamation on 11 January 2000 and covers 72,344 acres, or 113 square miles. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management, which already administered the land before the designation; monument status raised the level of protection given to the resources within it. The monument is a unit of the BLM's National Landscape Conservation System. More than 450 distinct Native American structures have been recorded on the land, some of them large pueblos containing over 100 rooms each, and the designation also extended habitat protection to the plant and animal communities present.
Where it is
Agua Fria National Monument is a national monument near Anthem, in Yavapai County. It is one of the national monuments in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Agua Fria National Monument, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Mentioned in
- Arizona has three national parks, and one of them takes 77 per cent of the visits — Grand Canyon recorded 4,919,163 visits in 2024 against 1,505,623 for Saguaro and Petrified Forest combined — more than three times the other two together.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://www.blm.gov/national-conservation-lands/arizona/agua-fria(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- National Monument
- Destination
- Anthem
- County
- Yavapai County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 59.8 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 38.0
- Significance score
- 78.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- blm.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 34.1542, -112.0760
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12