1.3 miles away
Pinal Geology & Mineral Museum
You can look at minerals and fossilized dino bones. Kids activities.
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
A four-storey earthen building raised by the Hohokam around 1350 CE and the first archaeological site in the United States to receive federal protection, in 1892. A steel canopy has sheltered it since 1932. It recorded 104,429 recreation visits in 2024.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- National Monument
- Destination
- Coolidge
- County
- Pinal County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- 104,429 (2024)
- What is counted
- recreation visits
Ranking
- Overall score
- 54.1 / 100
- Visitation score
- 35.8
- Popularity score
- 52.2
- Significance score
- 83.0
- Confidence
- high
Visiting
- Official website
- nps.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 32.9970, -111.5320
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is a national monument near Coolidge, in Pinal 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
This place scores 54.1 out of 100, at high confidence. The score combines its published visitor count with public interest and tourism significance. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: The 2025 series reports zero recreation visits for month 10, a reporting gap rather than a measured figure, so 2024 is used as the reference year.
Sources
- Visitation: National Park Service Visitor Use Statistics(opens in a new tab)
- 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.nps.gov/cagr/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
15 miles away
Casa Grande Main Street District
Downtown Casa Grande has a number of buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A helpful map of the most interesting buildings can be downloaded here.16 miles away
Queen Creek Olive Mill
A family-owned company that grows and presses olives for the production of high-quality extra virgin. It was featured on the Food Network show The Best Thing I Ever Ate.