0.5 miles away
Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens
This historic adobe house dates from the 1870s, and has exhibits chronicling the history of the lower Colorado River region from the 1540s to the present.
Colorado River State Historic Park
The surviving buildings of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Depot, which from 1864 supplied military posts across the Southwest with goods shipped up the Colorado River by steamboat. Formerly named Yuma Crossing State Historic Park. It recorded 11,363 visits in 2024.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- State Historic Park
- Destination
- Yuma
- County
- Yuma County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- 11,363 (2024)
- What is counted
- visits
Ranking
- Overall score
- 25.2 / 100
- Visitation score
- 2.0
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 60.0
- Confidence
- high
Visiting
- Official website
- azstateparks.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 32.7267, -114.6270
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Colorado River State Historic Park is a state historic park near Yuma, in Yuma County. It is one of the state historic parks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 25.2 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.
Sources
- Visitation: Arizona Office of Tourism Monthly State Parks Visitation Report (December 2025); source Arizona State Parks, compiled by AHRRC(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://azstateparks.com/Parks/YUQU/index.html(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Ocean To Ocean Bridge
The Ocean-to-Ocean Bridge is a through truss bridge spanning the Colorado River in Yuma, Arizona. Built in 1915, it was the first highway crossing of the lower Colorado and is the earliest example of a through truss bridge in Arizona. It is also the only example of a Pennsylvania truss within Arizona.
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Yuma Crossing
Yuma Crossing is a site in Arizona and California that is significant for its association with transportation and communication across the Colorado River. It connected New Spain and Las Californias in the Spanish Colonial period in and also during the Western expansion of the United States. Features of the Arizona side include the Yuma Quartermaster Depot and Yuma Territorial Prison.
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Desert Sun Stadium
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Morelos Dam
The Morelos Dam was built in 1950 across the Colorado River following a 1944 treaty between the United States and Mexico. It is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) below the junction of the California border and the Colorado River between the town of Los Algodones, Baja California, in northwestern Mexico and Yuma County, Arizona in the southwestern United States. The eastern half of the dam lies inside United States territory; but Mexico is responsible for all maintenance.