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Sonoran Desert National Monument
Sonoran Desert National Monument is south of Goodyear and Buckeye and east of Gila Bend, Arizona. Created by Presidential proclamation on January 17, 2001, the 496,400 acres (200,886 ha) monument is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Landscape Conservation System.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- National Monument
- Destination
- Goodyear
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 53.3 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 23.6
- Significance score
- 78.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- blm.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.0017, -112.4550
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Sonoran Desert National Monument is a national monument near Goodyear, in Maricopa County. It is one of the national monuments in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 53.3 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
- Official site: https://www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/natmon/son_des.html(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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