2.5 miles away
Cochise Stronghold
A Dragoon Mountains site believed to be the burial place of Apache chief Cochise, and the start of the five-mile Cochise Trail.
Council Rocks
A Dragoon Mountains site amid boulders with pre-Columbian pictographs, believed to be where Cochise and General Howard negotiated an 1872 treaty.
- Rank in Arizona
- #528of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 25.5 out of 100low confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
Council Rocks is a site in the Dragoon Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, surrounded by giant boulders bearing pre-Columbian pictographs. It is believed to be the location where the 1872 peace treaty between Apache chief Cochise and General Howard was negotiated.
Where it is
Council Rocks is a historic site near Dragoon Mountains, in Cochise 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 Council Rocks, 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 low 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
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
3.4 miles away
Dragoon Mountains
A 25-mile range in Cochise County named after the U.S. Cavalry Dragoons who fought the Chiricahua during the Apache Wars.
6.2 miles away
Dragoon Springs
A Dragoon Mountains site with a ruined Butterfield stagecoach station and Civil War graves from the First Battle of Dragoon Springs.
9.8 miles away
Amerind Foundation
A private museum and research facility in Cochise County's Texas Canyon, dedicated to Native American cultures and histories.
11 miles away
Texas Canyon
A boulder-strewn valley on Interstate 10 east of Benson, between the Dragoon and Little Dragoon Mountains, named for settlers from Texas.
12 miles away
The Thing?
A roadside attraction on Interstate 10 displaying a supposed mummified mother and child, advertised for miles by billboards.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Dragoon Mountains
- County
- Cochise County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 25.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- low
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 31.9092, -110.0326
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12