4.5 miles away
Mount Lemmon Ski Valley
The southernmost ski area in the continental United States, on Mount Lemmon north of Tucson at 9,157 feet.
Mount Bigelow
A peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, home to Catalina Station and the University of Arizona's 61-inch Kuiper Telescope.
- Rank in Arizona
- #348of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 40.3 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Natural Landmark
Mount Bigelow is a mountain in the Santa Catalina Mountains, in Pima County, Arizona. It is home to Catalina Station, an astronomical observing facility that operates the 61-inch Kuiper Telescope, owned by Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona and among the telescopes used by students at Astronomy Camp.
Where it is
Mount Bigelow is a natural landmark near Santa Catalina Mountains, in Pima 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
No official visitor count is published for Mount Bigelow, 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.
Sources
- 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
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
4.7 miles away
Santa Catalina Mountains
The range north of Tucson, rising to 9,157 feet at Mount Lemmon and climbed by the 27-mile Catalina Highway.
4.7 miles away
Mount Lemmon Observatory
A University of Arizona observatory on Mount Lemmon, 28 kilometres north-east of Tucson in the Coronado National Forest.
7.6 miles away
Peppersauce Cave
A limestone cave with about a mile of mapped passages in the Santa Catalina Mountains south of Oracle, visited by some 23,000 people a year.
9.6 miles away
Sabino Canyon
A canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, with waterfalls along Sabino Creek and trails through the desert.
11 miles away
Catalina State Park
Foothills and canyons at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, holding nearly 5,000 saguaros.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Santa Catalina Mountains
- County
- Pima County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 40.3 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 19.0
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 32.4151, -110.7150
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12