0.4 miles away
Riverfront Park
The largest municipal park in Cottonwood. There is a dog park, disc golf and a walking trail along the river.
Dead Horse Ranch State Park
A working ranch until the state bought it in 1973, now a park along the Verde River with lagoons, cottonwood-willow riverside forest and a well-used trail network. It recorded 206,069 visits in 2024.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- State Park
- Destination
- Cottonwood
- County
- Yavapai County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- 206,069 (2024)
- What is counted
- visits
Ranking
- Overall score
- 41.7 / 100
- Visitation score
- 46.2
- Popularity score
- 9.4
- Significance score
- 62.0
- Confidence
- high
Visiting
- Official website
- azstateparks.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 34.7539, -112.0140
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Dead Horse Ranch State Park is a state park near Cottonwood, in Yavapai 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
This place scores 41.7 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)
- 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: https://azstateparks.com/dead-horse(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
0.5 miles away
Verde Valley
The Verde Valley (Yavapai: Matkʼamvaha; Spanish: Valle Verde) is a valley in central Arizona in the United States. The Verde River runs through it. The Verde River is one of Arizona's last free-flowing river systems.
5.6 miles away
Audrey Shaft Headframe Park
Visitors can stand on glass above a 1,900-ft mining shaft, with the largest wooden headframe still standing in Arizona.