Colossal Cave Mountain Park
A "dry" cave with 3½ miles of mapped passageways. The cave was used by pre-Columbian Native Americans, and rediscovered in 1879. Also on park grounds are a cowboy ranch museum, a butterfly garden, horseback trails, and picnic and camping facilities.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Tucson
- County
- Pima County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 44.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 28.4
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- colossalcave.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 32.0620, -110.6333
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Colossal Cave Mountain Park is a natural landmark near Tucson, in Pima 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
This place scores 44.5 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: http://colossalcave.com/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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