Dragoon Springs

Rank in Arizona: #533of 727 ranked
Overall score: Score 25.5 out of 100low confidence
Category: Historic Site

Dragoon Springs is a historic site in the Dragoon Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, containing the ruins of a Butterfield stagecoach station and Civil War graves from the First Battle of Dragoon Springs.

Where it is

Dragoon Springs 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 Dragoon Springs, 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

4.6 miles away
Amerind Foundation
A private museum and research facility in Cochise County's Texas Canyon, dedicated to Native American cultures and histories.
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4.9 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.
Historic Site
5.4 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.
Canyon
6.1 miles away
The Thing?
A roadside attraction on Interstate 10 displaying a supposed mummified mother and child, advertised for miles by billboards.
Museum
6.2 miles away
Council Rocks
A Dragoon Mountains site amid boulders with pre-Columbian pictographs, believed to be where Cochise and General Howard negotiated an 1872 treaty.
Historic Site
8.3 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.
Natural Landmark