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Pinal City
Pinal or Pinal City is a ghost town in Pinal County in the U.S. state of Arizona. The town was populated from the 1870s into the 1890s, in what was then the Arizona Territory.
Boyce Thompson Arboretum
Arizona's oldest and largest botanical garden. Walking tours and lectures are held here, along with occasional photography workshops.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Botanical Garden
- Destination
- Mogollon Rim
- County
- Pinal County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 41.3 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 24.9
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- btarboretum.org(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.2801, -111.1599
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is a botanical garden near Mogollon Rim, in Pinal County. It is one of the botanical gardens in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 41.3 out of 100, at medium confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Description: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(opens in a new tab)
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://btarboretum.org/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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