2.7 miles away
Onyx Cave
A half-mile solutional cave in Permian limestone in the Santa Rita Mountains, designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974.
Kentucky Camp
A ghost town and former mining camp near Sonoita, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995 and maintained by the US Forest Service.
- Rank in Arizona
- #394of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 39.1 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
Kentucky Camp is a ghost town and former mining camp along the Arizona Trail in Pima County, Arizona, near Sonoita. The Kentucky Camp Historic District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995, and, lying within the Coronado National Forest, its remaining buildings are maintained by the US Forest Service. A few have been restored, and one is available for overnight rental.
Where it is
Kentucky Camp is a historic site near Sonoita, in Pima 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 Kentucky Camp, 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.
Mentioned in
- Arizona's 27 ghost towns publish no visitor count, and 22 of them are still read about — Not one abandoned settlement in this database records an official visitor figure, yet together they drew 136,163 Wikipedia reads in 2024.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/coronado/learning/history-culture/?cid=stelprdb5125182(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
More photographs
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Nearby attractions
5.6 miles away
Fort Buchanan
An 1856 US Army post south-west of Sonoita, burned by Apaches in 1865 and abandoned; its ruins were rediscovered in 1929.
6.1 miles away
Empire Ranch
A working cattle ranch in south-eastern Pima County, listed in 1976, whose range once spanned more than 180 square miles.
7.6 miles away
Mount Wrightson
A 9,456-foot peak in the Santa Rita Mountains within the Coronado National Forest, named for the miner William Wrightson.
9.0 miles away
Santa Rita Mountains
A Madrean sky island range south-east of Tucson, rising to 9,453 feet at Mount Wrightson and containing Madera Canyon.
9.1 miles away
Helvetia
A ghost town in Pima County settled in 1891 and abandoned in the early 1920s, most of it now fenced off by active mining.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Sonoita
- County
- Pima County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 39.1 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 10.5
- Significance score
- 63.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- fs.usda.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 31.7369, -110.7286
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12