8.8 miles away
Pinal Geology & Mineral Museum
You can look at minerals and fossilized dino bones. Kids activities.
McFarland State Historic Park
The 1878 Pinal County courthouse, built of adobe, later a hospital, and named for Ernest McFarland — the only Arizonan to have served as governor, U.S. senator and state supreme court chief justice. It recorded 8,081 visits in 2024.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- State Historic Park
- Destination
- Florence
- County
- Pinal County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- 8,081 (2024)
- What is counted
- visits
Ranking
- Overall score
- 18.0 / 100
- Visitation score
- 0.0
- Popularity score
- 0.0
- Significance score
- 60.0
- Confidence
- high
Visiting
- Official website
- azstateparks.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.0361, -111.3880
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
McFarland State Historic Park is a state historic park near Florence, in Pinal County. It is one of the state historic parks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 18.0 out of 100, at high confidence. The score combines its published visitor count with public interest and tourism significance. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Sources
- Visitation: Arizona Office of Tourism Monthly State Parks Visitation Report (December 2025); source Arizona State Parks, compiled by AHRRC(opens in a new tab)
- 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
- Official site: https://www.azstateparks.com/mcfarland/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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