Faraway Ranch
Faraway Ranch was the home of Swedish immigrants, Emma and Neil Erickson. Emma Peterson bought a two-room cabin in December of 1886. After she and Neil Erickson married in January 1887, they settled on the 160-acre homestead. In 1898 the couple expanded the cabin to a two-story, board-and-batten style frame house. In 1903 Neil became the first ranger for the Chiricahua Forest Reserve.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Chiricahua National Monument
- County
- Cochise 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
- Official website
- nps.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 32.0087, -109.3736
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Faraway Ranch is a historic site near Chiricahua National Monument, 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
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
- Official site: https://www.nps.gov/places/faraway-ranch.htm(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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