2.4 miles away
Roper Lake State Park
An Arizona state park around a 32-acre lake five miles south of Safford, below the Pinaleño Mountains.
Dankworth Pond State Park
A subunit of Roper Lake State Park near Safford with fishing and birdwatching, and a recreated Paleo-Indian village on an interpretive trail.
- Rank in Arizona
- #499of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 27.3 out of 100low confidence
- Category
- State Park
Dankworth Ponds State Park is a subunit of Roper Lake State Park near Safford, Graham County, Arizona, used for fishing and birdwatching. It includes Dankworth Village, an outdoor exhibit of recreated Paleo-Indian structures and artifacts reached by an interpretive trail.
Where it is
Dankworth Pond State Park is a state park near Safford, in Graham County. It is one of the state parks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Dankworth Pond State Park, 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.
Mentioned in
- Five parks carry half of Arizona's state park visits — Arizona's 32 state park units recorded 3,122,079 visits in 2024, and the five busiest accounted for 53 per cent of them.
Sources
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://azstateparks.com/dankworth-pond(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
5.8 miles away
Mount Graham International Observatory
A University of Arizona observatory in the Pinaleño Mountains, site of the Large Binocular Telescope and contested since construction began in 1989.
7.8 miles away
Point of Pines Sites
Archaeological sites on the San Carlos Apache Reservation where a 1946-60 field school found Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon and Hohokam evidence.
9.7 miles away
Mount Graham
A 10,720-foot peak north-east of Tucson, the highest in the Pinaleño Mountains and the southernmost land above 10,000 feet in the country.
9.8 miles away
Pinaleño Mountains
A Madrean sky island range near Safford with over 7,000 feet of relief, rising to Mount Graham at 10,720 feet.
11 miles away
Large Binocular Telescope
An optical telescope on Mount Graham whose paired 8.4-metre mirrors give it the light-gathering power of an 11.8-metre instrument.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- State Park
- Destination
- Safford
- County
- Graham County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 27.3 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 62.0
- Confidence
- low
Visiting
- Official website
- azstateparks.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 32.7208, -109.7057
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12