481Score 31.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Elephant Butte
A 5,981-foot Monument Valley butte, appearing as the largest formation visible north-east of John Ford's Point.
Arizona Attractions
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- 482Score 31.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Pusch Ridge Wilderness Area
A 56,430-acre Coronado National Forest wilderness north of Tucson, created to protect Pusch Ridge's declining desert bighorn sheep. - 483Score 31.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Rooster Rock Spire
A 5,985-foot spire in a remote corner of Monument Valley that lies beyond the reach of all-day valley tours. - 484Score 31.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Skyline Regional Park
An 8,700-acre Sonoran Desert preserve on the White Tank Mountains' southern edge, managed by Buckeye under a BLM lease. - 485Score 31.2 out of 100
State Park
Homolovi State Park
An Arizona state park north of Winslow preserving more than 300 Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites. - 486Score 30.2 out of 100
Zoo or Aquarium
Heritage Park Zoological Sanctuary
A non-profit Prescott animal sanctuary, also known as the Prescott Animal Park Association, protecting native and exotic species. - 487Score 30.0 out of 100
Botanical Garden
Arboretum at Flagstaff
A 7,150-foot botanical garden west of Flagstaff with 750 plant species, endowed in 1981 by donor Frances McAllister. - 488Score 30.0 out of 100
Museum
Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies
ASU's meteorite research centre, renamed for Professor Peter Buseck in 2021, holds the world's largest university meteorite collection. - 489Score 30.0 out of 100
Museum
Cave Creek Museum
Cave Creek's history museum displays area artefacts outdoors, including the town's first church and Arizona's last tubercular cabin. - 490Score 30.0 out of 100
Museum
Mohave Museum of History & Arts
A private, not-for-profit Kingman museum, founded in 1961, dedicated to the heritage and arts of north-western Arizona. - 491Score 30.0 out of 100
Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson
Tucson's Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1997, has occupied a former fire station on Church Avenue since 2010. - 492Score 30.0 out of 100
Museum
Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum and Cowboy Hall of Fame
A Willcox museum honouring singing cowboy and Disney narrator Rex Allen (1920-1999), with an adjoining local cowboy hall of fame. - 493Score 30.0 out of 100
Museum
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Camp Verde's archaeology museum, founded in 2010, covers Sinagua culture and hosts an annual archaeology fair and film festival. - 494Score 29.8 out of 100
State Historic Park
Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park
The 1882 Cochise County courthouse in Tombstone, now a museum and the first Arizona state park to open. - 495Score 28.8 out of 100
Landmark
Centennial Hall
A 1937 University of Arizona auditorium that hosted Martin Luther King Jr and other speakers, renovated in 1985 and renamed for the centenary. - 496Score 28.6 out of 100
State Park
Lyman Lake State Park
An Arizona state park on the largest lake in the region, 17 miles north of Springerville on the Little Colorado. - 497Score 28.4 out of 100
State Historic Park
Riordan Mansion State Historic Park
An Arizona state park in Flagstaff preserving the duplex mansion of the lumber barons Timothy and Michael Riordan. - 498Score 27.8 out of 100
Landmark
Tempe Center for the Arts
A publicly owned Tempe arts centre, opened in 2007, with a 600-seat theatre, a studio theatre and a gallery overlooking Tempe Town Lake. - 499Score 27.3 out of 100
State Park
Dankworth Pond State Park
A subunit of Roper Lake State Park near Safford with fishing and birdwatching, and a recreated Paleo-Indian village on an interpretive trail. - 500Score 26.4 out of 100
Canyon
Boynton Canyon
Boynton Canyon is a box canyon located near the town of Sedona, in Yavapai County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. - 501Score 26.4 out of 100
Canyon
French Joe Canyon
A Cochise County canyon near Benson named for an early prospector, known for reliable springs and used by birdwatchers. - 502Score 26.4 out of 100
Canyon
Garden Canyon
A Cochise County canyon near Sierra Vista with Apache and Hohokam pictograph sites, dated to around 1700 CE and 400–1250 CE respectively. - 503Score 26.4 out of 100
Canyon
Lower Antelope Canyon
A Page, Arizona slot canyon with a more open top than Upper Antelope Canyon, accessible only by guided tour. - 504Score 26.4 out of 100
Canyon
Ramsey Canyon Preserve
Ramsey Canyon Preserve, near Sierra Vista, Arizona, has recorded more than 170 bird species, including 14 hummingbird species, along its hiking trails. - 505Score 26.4 out of 100
Canyon
Snap Point and Canyon
Snap Point and Canyon, in Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, Arizona. - 506Score 26.4 out of 100
Canyon
West Fork of Oak Creek
A side canyon of Oak Creek Canyon, walked rather than viewed: the trail follows a stream between cliffs the Forest Service calls dizzying, crossing the water repeatedly on stepping stones. It is maintained and easy for the first three miles, and runs another eleven into wilderness beyond that. The Forest Service calls it one of the most popular trails on the Coconino National Forest; dogs must be leashed, nothing mechanised is allowed, and a day-use fee applies at the Call of the Canyon car park. - 507Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Agate Bridge
A petrified log spanning a gap between bluffs in Petrified Forest National Park, propped up by stone supports the park service added. - 508Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Ancestral Puebloan Ruin and Petroglyphs
A Monument Valley ruin and petroglyph site on a canyon edge, fenced since 2018 to better protect it, unusually sited on the ground. - 509Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Ancestral Puebloan Ruins
Ruins in southern Monument Valley thought to be the largest and most intact in the valley, set in a wide, shallow rock cave. - 510Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Artist's Point
A Monument Valley viewpoint looking north across the valley toward the Mitten Buttes and other rock formations. - 511Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Audrey Shaft Headframe Park
A Jerome mining park with Arizona's largest standing wooden headframe over a 1,900-foot shaft, viewable through a glass platform. - 512Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Aztec ghost town
A ghost town near Dateland, once a Southern Pacific Railroad station, now reduced to two standing buildings and foundations. - 513Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Big Hogan Arch
A Monument Valley rock arch named for its hogan-like shape, once a Navajo gathering place valued for its musical echo. - 514Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Bill Williams Statue
An 8-foot bronze statue in Williams, Arizona, by B. R. Pettit, depicting "Old Bill" Williams, the town's namesake. - 515Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Black Hills Rockhound Area
A BLM-managed rockhounding site near Safford where fire agate is the most common and most valuable gemstone found. - 516Score 25.5 out of 100
- 517Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Bouse Fisherman
A pre-Columbian desert geoglyph near Quartzsite depicting a fisherman, near a Native American lookout and stagecoach ruins. - 518Score 25.5 out of 100
- 519Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Broken Arrow Trail
A 2-mile, cairn-marked Sedona trail to Chicken Point, passing Submarine Rock and shared with Pink Jeep tours and mountain bikers. - 520Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Camp Naco
A 1917 border fort near Bisbee, said to be the only one remaining on the US-Mexico line, partly restored and partly fenced off. - 521Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Camp Rucker
A former U.S. Army post in the Chiricahua Mountains, abandoned in 1890, with a number of buildings still standing. - 522Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Cathedral Wash Trail
Cathedral Wash Trail, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona. - 523Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Cliff Dwellers Stone House
Cliff Dwellers Stone House, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona. - 524Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Cochise County Courthouse
Bisbee's Art Deco county courthouse, designed by Roy Place, with copper doors and New Deal-era artwork including a hardware relief map. - 525Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Cochise Stronghold
A Dragoon Mountains site believed to be the burial place of Apache chief Cochise, and the start of the five-mile Cochise Trail. - 526Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Copper Hill ghost town
A Gila County ghost town founded in 1908 with 500 residents working nearby mines, abandoned in 1933 during the Depression. - 527Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Copper Miner
A 1935 New Deal sculpture in Bisbee, cast in concrete and copper, modelled on local resident Lee Petrovitch to honour the town's miners. - 528Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Council Rocks
A Dragoon Mountains site amid boulders with pre-Columbian pictographs, believed to be where Cochise and General Howard negotiated an 1872 treaty. - 529Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Crescent Moon Ranch
A Coconino National Forest day-use area on Oak Creek at Red Rock Crossing, where the water reflects Cathedral Rock — a view the Forest Service describes as one of the most photographed scenes in the Southwest. Paved paths run through picnic grounds to shallow water people wade and fish in, and a day-use fee applies. The site was a working cattle ranch; its buildings and waterwheel remain, and the ranch house is rented out by the Forest Service. - 530Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Cube Rock
A small, square-shaped rock formation in eastern Monument Valley, visible north-east of Yei Bi Chei Point near the Sand Springs overlook. - 531Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Devil's Bridge Trail
A Sedona-area hiking trail leading to Devil's Bridge, described as the largest natural sandstone arch in the area. - 532Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Douglas Williams House
A small museum in Douglas, Arizona, displaying historic photographs and memorabilia from the surrounding area. - 533Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Dragoon Springs
A Dragoon Mountains site with a ruined Butterfield stagecoach station and Civil War graves from the First Battle of Dragoon Springs. - 534Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Dripping Springs petroglyphs
Hundreds of pre-Columbian petroglyphs near Quartzsite, along a path past a ruined stone cabin and springs to a cliff base. - 535Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Ear of the Wind
Ear of the Wind is a rock arch in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, standing directly beside a sand dune. - 536Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Ed Schieffelin Monument
A monument near Tombstone marking the site of Ed Schieffelin's silver claim, the discovery that led to the town's founding. - 537Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
El Capitan Pass
A Gila County mountain pass marked by a historical marker noting a U.S. Army march through it to California in 1846. - 538Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Elden Pueblo Historic Site
A Sinagua archaeological site in Flagstaff with an interpretive trail, managed by the Coconino National Forest Service for education programs. - 539Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Estrella Mountain Regional Park
A 20,000-acre Maricopa County park near Goodyear with hiking trails, ball fields, a golf course, and a rodeo arena. - 540Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Faraway Ranch
A former homestead in Chiricahua National Monument, settled in 1887 by Swedish immigrants Emma and Neil Erickson, later expanded into a house.