7.9 miles away
Tonto National Forest
The surrounding Tonto National Forest offers a range of opportunities for hiking, mountain biking, and rock climbing. Maps, books, and trail information are available from the Globe Ranger Station.
El Capitan Pass
A historical marker commemorates this spectacular pass, through which in 1846 Kearney's army marched to California to fight in the Mexican War. Shaded picnic tables are nearby.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Globe
- County
- Gila 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
- 33.2633, -110.7718
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
El Capitan Pass is a natural landmark near Globe, in Gila 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
This place scores 25.5 out of 100, at low confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Description: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(opens in a new tab)
- 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
8.2 miles away
Besh-Ba-Gowah Archeological Park
A reconstructed 14th century Salado pueblo, with a small museum onsite.10 miles away
Gila County Historical Society
A small museum devoted to the history of Globe and the surrounding region. A small bookshop is also onsite.11 miles away
Copper Hill ghost town
Established in 1908, Copper Hill once had 500 residents working in nearby mines, but was abandoned during the Depression in 1933. There are many foundations remaining.14 miles away
Christmas
Christmas is an uninhabited mining community in Gila County, Arizona, United States. The mine which led to creation of the town was staked on Christmas Day 1902, prompting the name. During the three decades in which the town's post office operated it was a popular destination for holiday mail seeking a "Christmas" postmark.
14 miles away
Ray
Ray is a ghost town in Pinal County, Arizona, United States; it is mostly known for the large copper mine there. It was named after the nearby Ray mine, which was begun by the Ray Copper Company in 1882, after the sister of one of the miners, whose name was Bullinger. The town of Kearny was founded by the Kennecott Mining Company in 1958 as a planned community to accommodate the populations of Ray, Barcelona and Sonora, which were about to be enveloped by Kennecott's copper mine.