10 miles away
Mares Bluff
A steep Greenlee County trail to a view of Clifton, built as a veterans memorial and lined with plaques.
Black Hills Rockhound Area
A BLM-managed rockhounding site near Safford where fire agate is the most common and most valuable gemstone found.
- Rank in Arizona
- #515of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 25.5 out of 100low confidence
- Category
- Natural Landmark
Black Hills Rockhound Area is a rockhounding site near Safford, Greenlee County, Arizona, managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Fire agate is the most common and valuable gemstone found there.
Where it is
Black Hills Rockhound Area is a natural landmark near Safford, in Greenlee County. It is one of the natural landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Black Hills Rockhound Area, 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 low 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.
Sources
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://www.blm.gov/visit/black-hills-rockhound-area(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
11 miles away
Greenlee Historical Museum
A small Morenci museum devoted to the mining history of Clifton and Morenci in Greenlee County, Arizona.13 miles away
Morenci Mine Overlook
Morenci Mine Overlook, near Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, is a vantage point over the town's mining operation.14 miles away
Sanchez CCC Camp
Sanchez CCC Camp, near Safford, Arizona, preserves several buildings of a Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps camp, managed by the BLM.
22 miles away
Point of Pines Sites
Archaeological sites on the San Carlos Apache Reservation where a 1946-60 field school found Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon and Hohokam evidence.
23 miles away
Roper Lake State Park
An Arizona state park around a 32-acre lake five miles south of Safford, below the Pinaleño Mountains.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Safford
- County
- Greenlee County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 25.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- low
Visiting
- Official website
- blm.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 32.8979, -109.3406
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12