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Buckhorn Baths Motel
A Pueblo Revival mineral springs resort in Mesa, opened in 1939 by Ted and Alice Sliger and closed in stages between 1999 and 2004.
- Rank in Arizona
- #145of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 48.7 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
The Buckhorn Baths Motel is a former mineral hot springs resort on East Main Street in Mesa, Arizona, which offered a bathhouse together with cottages and motel rooms for overnight stays. The property began in 1936 as a filling station and store, and Ted and Alice Sliger developed it into a resort complex that opened in 1939 and was substantially complete by 1947. Although the buildings went up over more than a decade, all are in the Pueblo Revival style. The bathhouse closed in 1999, and the motel and its wildlife museum continued until 2004. Most of the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, though the buildings on the adjoining parcel to the west, which the Sligers also owned and had integrated into the resort, were not included.
Where it is
Buckhorn Baths Motel is a historic site near Mesa, in Maricopa County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Buckhorn Baths Motel, 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.
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
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Mesa
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 48.7 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 31.6
- Significance score
- 63.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 33.4162, -111.7022
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12