5.8 miles away
Granite Basin Lake
Granite Basin Lake is a reservoir located near Prescott, in Yavapai County, North Central Arizona. It is in the Prescott National Forest, adjacent to the Granite Mountain Wilderness Area.
Sierra Prieta
The Sierra Prieta is a 14 miles (23 km) long mountain range in central-northwest Arizona. The range is the mountainous region west of Prescott, with prominent Thumb Butte, 6,514 feet (1,985 m), a volcanic plug, on the city's west perimeter. The range is attached to the northwest of the Bradshaw Mountains, and Granite Mountain, a recreation site, as well as a rockclimbing location, is part of the range's northeast section, overlooking Williamson Valley, further northeast.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Prescott
- County
- Yavapai County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 40.0 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 18.3
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 34.5400, -112.5900
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Sierra Prieta is a natural landmark near Prescott, in Yavapai 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
This place scores 40.0 out of 100, at medium confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Description: Wikipedia(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(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
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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