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Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
An 860,010-acre refuge along the Mexican border, established in 1939 for desert bighorn sheep and the third largest in the lower 48 states.
El Camino Del Diablo
A 250-mile historic road across the Sonoran Desert in Pima and Yuma counties, listed on the National Register in 1978.
- Rank in Arizona
- #172of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 47.4 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Natural Landmark
El Camino del Diablo, Spanish for the Devil's Path, is a historic 250-mile road crossing remote and inhospitable country in the Sonoran Desert, in Pima and Yuma counties, Arizona. It is also recorded as El Camino del Muerto, the Sonora Trail, the Sonoyta-Yuma Trail, the Yuma-Caborca Trail and the Old Yuma Trail, and the name refers to conditions along the route. The road began as a series of footpaths used by desert-dwelling Native Americans and has been in use for thousands of years. From the 16th to the 19th centuries it carried conquistadores, explorers, missionaries, settlers, miners and cartographers. Traffic declined sharply after the Southern Pacific Railroad reached Yuma in 1877. The route was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and has been designated a Back Country Byway by the Bureau of Land Management.
Where it is
El Camino Del Diablo is a natural landmark near Ajo, in Yuma 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
No official visitor count is published for El Camino Del Diablo, 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 medium 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
- 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
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Ajo
- County
- Yuma County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 47.4 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 28.7
- Significance score
- 63.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 32.0722, -113.3867
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12