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361Score 39.9 out of 100
Historic Site
Big Bug
A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, established in 1862 and lying twelve miles south-east of Prescott.
362Score 39.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Bill Williams Mountain
A lava dome volcano in the Kaibab National Forest south of Williams, forming part of the San Francisco volcanic field.
363Score 39.9 out of 100
Landmark
Celebrity Theatre
A theatre in the round in Phoenix, its stage set at the centre of the auditorium with the audience seated on every side.
364Score 39.9 out of 100
Landmark
Davis Dam
A Bureau of Reclamation dam completed in 1951 on the Arizona–Nevada border, impounding the Colorado River to form Lake Mohave.
365Score 39.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Galiuro Mountains
A rugged sky island range in south-eastern Arizona, taking in the Galiuro and Aravaipa Canyon wilderness areas.
366Score 39.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Peloncillo Mountains
A range in north-eastern Cochise County, part of the Madrean Sky Islands, lying east of the Willcox Playa and San Simon Valley.
367Score 39.9 out of 100
National Monument
Pipe Spring National Monument
A National Park Service monument in northern Arizona holding Native American, explorer and Mormon pioneer history.
24,530 recreation visits in 2024.
368Score 39.9 out of 100
Historic Site
Point of Pines Sites
Archaeological sites on the San Carlos Apache Reservation where a 1946-60 field school found Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon and Hohokam evidence.
369Score 39.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
White Tank Mountain Regional Park
A park of 29,271 acres in west-central Maricopa County, the largest regional park in the county, established in the 1960s.
370Score 39.8 out of 100
Historic Site
C. Hart Merriam Base Camp Site
A Coconino National Forest campsite linked to Clinton Hart Merriam, the United States' first eco-biologist, and a landmark since 1965.
371Score 39.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Double Adobe Site
A Whitewater Draw site excavated from 1926 by Byron Cummings and Emil Haury, which defined the Cochise culture in 1941.
372Score 39.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Gatlin Site
A Hohokam platform-mound site near Gila Bend, home to over 500 people between AD 800 and 1200, excavated in 1959-60.
373Score 39.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Harquahala Mountains
The highest range in south-western Arizona, rising to 5,681 feet at Harquahala Peak, whose summit held a Smithsonian observatory from 1920.
374Score 39.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Indian Mesa
A cliff-sided mesa in Lake Pleasant Regional Park, topped by the ruins of a prehistoric Hohokam village.
375Score 39.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Klagetoh Chapter House
A 1963 Navajo Nation chapter house in Klagetoh tied to leader Annie Dodge Wauneka, designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021.
376Score 39.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District
Petrified Forest National Park's 1961-65 administrative complex, designed by Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander, became a landmark in 2016.
377Score 39.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
Ganado Mission's nursing school, the first accredited programme for Native American women in the US, became a landmark in 2009.
378Score 39.8 out of 100
Canyon
Salt River Canyon Wilderness
A wilderness area of 32,115 acres in the Tonto National Forest, taking in a deep river canyon with 27 sets of rapids.
379Score 39.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Winona Site
A Coconino County site where 1940s excavations found Hohokam pit houses, though later researchers link finds to the Sinagua instead.
380Score 39.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Gila Mountains
A fault-blocked range 26 miles long east of Yuma, in the Sonoran Desert, rising to 3,156 feet at Sheep Peak.
381Score 39.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Harshaw
A silver-mining ghost town in Santa Cruz County, whose Hermosa mine yielded some $365,455 in bullion over four months in 1880.
382Score 39.7 out of 100
Historic Site
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.
383Score 39.7 out of 100
Landmark
Tempe Diablo Stadium
A baseball park in Tempe, the spring training ground of the Los Angeles Angels since 1993 and the night-game home of the Arizona League Angels.
384Score 39.7 out of 100
Historic Site
V-Bar-V Heritage Site
The largest known petroglyph site in the Verde Valley, with 1,032 petroglyphs in 13 panels, held by the Coconino National Forest.
385Score 39.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Black Mountain
A mountain between Carefree and Cave Creek in Maricopa County, with a hiking trail running to the peak.
386Score 39.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Calabasas
A ghost town within Rio Rico, a suburb of Nogales in Santa Cruz County, whose name is Spanish for 'pumpkins'.
387Score 39.6 out of 100
Landmark
David & Gladys Wright House
A Frank Lloyd Wright house of 1950–52 in Arcadia, Phoenix, built for his son David: a curved concrete arc raised on seven piers.
388Score 39.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Phallic Rock
A Precambrian granite formation at the eastern foot of Black Mountain in Carefree, shaped by spheroidal weathering.
389Score 39.5 out of 100
Landmark
Veterans Memorial Stadium
The 11,500-seat main ballpark of Tucson's Kino Sports Complex, opened in 1998 and home to the Tucson Saguaros since 2016.
390Score 39.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Sasco
A ghost town in Pinal County west of Red Rock, built as a company town around a large smelter serving several mines.
391Score 39.3 out of 100
Landmark
Surprise Stadium
A 10,714-seat ballpark opened in 2002, the shared spring training ground of the Kansas City Royals and the Texas Rangers.
392Score 39.3 out of 100
National Monument
Tonto National Monument
A national monument in the Superstition Mountains of Gila County, at the edge of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion.
30,840 recreation visits in 2024.
393Score 39.2 out of 100
Landmark
Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Phoenix
A 35-acre water park in Adobe Dam Regional Park, opened as WaterWorld Safari in 1993 and rebranded under Six Flags in 2019.
394Score 39.1 out of 100
Historic Site
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.
395Score 39.0 out of 100
Museum
Arizona Science Center
A science museum in downtown Phoenix, founded in 1984 and housed since 1997 in a building designed by Antoine Predock.
396Score 39.0 out of 100
Botanical Garden
Japanese Friendship Garden
A 3.5-acre Japanese stroll garden in Phoenix, built jointly with the sister city of Himeji and named a Phoenix Point of Pride in 2004.
397Score 38.8 out of 100
Landmark
Firebird Motorsports Park
A 450-acre motor racing complex south-east of Phoenix, known at various times as Firebird International Raceway and Firebird Motorsports Park.
398Score 38.6 out of 100
Landmark
Glen Canyon Dam Bridge
A steel arch bridge carrying U.S. Route 89 over the Colorado River, its deck 700 feet up; the world's highest arch bridge when built in 1959.
399Score 38.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
A 47-acre Phoenix preserve holding more than 1,500 Hohokam, Patayan and Archaic petroglyphs, 500 to 5,000 years old, on 500 basalt boulders.
400Score 38.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Hermit Trail
A steep, marginally maintained trail in Grand Canyon National Park, descending from the South Rim to the Colorado River past fossilised reptile tracks.
401Score 38.4 out of 100
Landmark
American Family Fields of Phoenix
The Milwaukee Brewers' spring training ballpark in the Maryvale community of Phoenix, city-owned and holding 10,000.
402Score 38.4 out of 100
Zoo or Aquarium
Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park
The only tribally owned zoological park in the United States, in Window Rock, with its exhibits labelled in the Navajo language.
403Score 38.3 out of 100
Observatory
McMath–Pierce Solar Telescope
A 1.6-metre solar telescope of 1962 at Kitt Peak, once the largest solar telescope and the largest unobstructed-aperture optical telescope in the world.
404Score 38.3 out of 100
Observatory
Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope
A four-metre reflector at Kitt Peak, second-largest in the world at first light in 1973 and now host to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument.
405Score 38.2 out of 100
Museum
Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
Bisbee's mining history museum occupies the Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a National Historic Landmark.
406Score 38.0 out of 100
Landmark
Morelos Dam
The last dam on the Colorado River, built in 1950 to divert Mexico's treaty share of the water to the Mexicali Valley.
407Score 38.0 out of 100
Landmark
Mount Lemmon Ski Valley
The southernmost ski area in the continental United States, on Mount Lemmon north of Tucson at 9,157 feet.
408Score 37.9 out of 100
Historic Site
Sahuaro Ranch Park
An 1886 Glendale ranch of restored fruit-orchard and vineyard buildings, now a city park listed on the National Register since 1980.
409Score 37.8 out of 100
Landmark
Kaibab Trail Suspension Bridge
A 440-foot span carrying the South Kaibab Trail across the Colorado River, and the mule crossing to Phantom Ranch.
410Score 37.8 out of 100
Landmark
Pinaleño Mountains
A Madrean sky island range near Safford with over 7,000 feet of relief, rising to Mount Graham at 10,720 feet.
411Score 37.7 out of 100
Landmark
Legacy Park
A 275-acre sports and entertainment complex in Mesa, opened in 2022 on a former General Motors testing ground.
412Score 37.6 out of 100
Observatory
Lowell Discovery Telescope
A 4.3-metre telescope operated by Lowell Observatory near Happy Jack, the fifth largest optical telescope in the continental United States.
413Score 37.6 out of 100
Museum
Mesa Arts Center
A performing and visual arts complex in downtown Mesa, completed in 2005 at a cost of $95 million and the largest in the state.
414Score 37.5 out of 100
Observatory
Submillimeter Telescope
A 10-metre submillimetre radio telescope on Mount Graham, completed in 1993 and part of the Mount Graham International Observatory.
415Score 37.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
A 117,107-acre US Fish and Wildlife Service refuge in Pima County, created for the reintroduction of masked bobwhite quail and pronghorn.
416Score 37.4 out of 100
Landmark
Warren Ballpark
A 1909 mining-company ballpark in Bisbee, where 1,300 miners seized in the Bisbee Deportation were held in 1917.
417Score 37.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Agate House
An eight-room Puebloan pueblo in Petrified Forest National Park, built of petrified wood and occupied from about 900 to 1200.
418Score 37.3 out of 100
National Historic Site
Tumacácori National Historical Park
A park of three units in the Santa Cruz valley protecting the ruins of three Spanish mission communities.
35,256 recreation visits in 2024.
419Score 37.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area
A 57,000-acre BLM conservation area in Cochise County protecting 40 miles of the upper San Pedro River, designated by Congress in 1988.
420Score 36.9 out of 100
State Historic Park
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park
A state park at the site where nineteen Granite Mountain Hotshots died fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire in 2013.
20,728 visits in 2024.