2.2 miles away
San Pedro Valley Arts & Historical Society
A small museum with displays on local and regional history. There is also a small gift shop selling items made by local artisans.
Coronado National Forest
The Coronado National Forest is a United States National Forest that includes an area of about 1.78 million acres (7,200 km2) spread throughout mountain ranges in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. It is located in parts of Cochise, Graham, Santa Cruz, Pima, and Pinal Counties in Arizona, and Hidalgo County in New Mexico.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Benson
- County
- Cochise County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 51.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 43.8
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- fs.usda.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 31.9964, -110.3090
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Coronado National Forest is a natural landmark near Benson, in Cochise 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 51.5 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: Wikipedia(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: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.fs.usda.gov/coronado(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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