A lone volcanic peak on the run between Phoenix and Tucson, and the site of the westernmost engagement of the American Civil War, in April 1862. Its slopes carry dense poppy blooms after a wet winter. It recorded 117,354 visits in 2024.
This place scores 47.8 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.
Long-standing roadside attraction where you can walk up and feed various critters such as ostriches, lorikeet, deer, tortoises and stingrays. There is also shopping for ostrich products. Monster truck tours of the ranch are held on weekends and holidays.
Sasco is a ghost town located in Pinal County, Arizona, west of Red Rock. Sasco, which is an acronym for the Southern Arizona Smelter Company, was a company town with a large smelter that served several mines. Once an impressive and little-known ghost town, today Sasco is a common sporting destination with shotgun shells, airsoft bb's, paintball splatter, and litter in the area.
Established as a National Monument in 2000, the monument is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for multiple uses, including ranching and recreational use. It is noted for significant concentrations of Ironwood trees, and for over 200 pre-Columbian archeological sites.
The Casa Grande Photogrammetric Test Range is a test range established in the mid-1960s to test the dynamic performance of aerial survey cameras. The range consisted of 272 concrete calibration markers embedded into the Earth's surface in and around Casa Grande, Arizona, United States. The markers are commonly (and erroneously) believed to have been used to aid camera calibration for the US Central Intelligence Agency's Corona spy satellite program; in fact, they were used as references for aerial surveys through photogrammetry.
St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery in the Sonoran Desert outside Florence, Arizona, United States. It was established in 1995 in the name of Saint Anthony the Great and is the largest Orthodox monastic complex in the Western Hemisphere.
The Tortolita Mountains are a modest mountain range northwest of Tucson, Arizona, USA, at the northern boundaries of Oro Valley and Marana, two suburbs of Tucson. Peak elevation is 4,696 feet (1,431 m). Much of the mountain range is protected within the Tortolita Mountain Park, established in 1986 by Pima County, which plans to expand its territory.
