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Southwest Research Station
Southwest Research Station, in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, is run by the American Museum of Natural History and offers birdwatching tours.
Geronimo Surrender Monument
A Chiricahua Mountains monument marking the 1886 surrender of Geronimo to General Nelson Miles, near the largely inaccessible actual site.
- Rank in Arizona
- #542of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 25.5 out of 100low confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
The Geronimo Surrender Monument, in the Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, commemorates the final surrender of the Apache leader Geronimo to General Nelson Miles in 1886. The actual surrender site lies several miles away off Skeleton Canyon Road, on private property rarely open to the public.
Where it is
Geronimo Surrender Monument is a historic site near Chiricahua 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 Geronimo Surrender Monument, 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.
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Camp Rucker
A former U.S. Army post in the Chiricahua Mountains, abandoned in 1890, with a number of buildings still standing.
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Chiricahua Peak
The highest point of the Chiricahua Mountains and of Cochise County, at 9,773 feet, with southernmost Engelmann spruce.
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Paradise
A small ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, settled in 1901 while the area was still the Arizona Territory.
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Chiricahua Mountains
A range in south-eastern Arizona rising to 9,759 feet at Chiricahua Peak, lying largely within the Coronado National Forest.
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Chiricahua National Monument
A National Park System unit in south-eastern Arizona, established in 1924 to protect its hoodoos and balancing rocks.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Chiricahua Mountains
- 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
- Coordinates
- 31.6956, -109.1290
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12