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Roden Crater
An extinct volcanic cinder cone with an interior crater, standing about 50 miles north-east of Flagstaff in northern Arizona.
Wupatki National Monument
Red sandstone pueblos built by ancestral Puebloan farmers near Flagstaff, including a hundred-room great house.
- Rank in Arizona
- #44of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 56.9 out of 100high confidence
- Annual visits
- 220,205counted in 2024
- Category
- National Monument
Wupatki National Monument is a national monument in north-central Arizona near Flagstaff, administered by the National Park Service in close conjunction with the nearby Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. It was established in 1924 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 15 October 1966, the listing covering three contributing buildings and 29 contributing structures across 35,422 acres. The monument is rich in Native American archaeological sites, among them red sandstone pueblos built by ancestral Puebloan farmers in the twelfth century, including a hundred-room great house with a ballcourt and a geological blowhole. It recorded 220,205 recreation visits in 2024.
Where it is
Wupatki National Monument is a national monument near Flagstaff, in Coconino 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
The score combines the published visitor count with public interest and tourism significance, which is what earns it high confidence. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: The 2025 series reports zero recreation visits for month 10, a reporting gap rather than a measured figure, so 2024 is used as the reference year.
Mentioned in
- Arizona has three national parks, and one of them takes 77 per cent of the visits — Grand Canyon recorded 4,919,163 visits in 2024 against 1,505,623 for Saguaro and Petrified Forest combined — more than three times the other two together.
Sources
- Visitation: National Park Service Visitor Use Statistics(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.nps.gov/wupa/index.htm(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Nearby attractions
13 miles away
S P Crater
A cinder cone 25 miles north of Flagstaff with a lava flow running 4.3 miles north, used by astronauts to train for moonwalking.
14 miles away
Grand Falls
A seasonal waterfall on the Little Colorado River near Flagstaff, formed where lava from Merriam Crater dammed the river.
15 miles away
Sunset Crater
The youngest volcano in the San Francisco volcanic field, erupted around 1085 CE north of Flagstaff.
22 miles away
San Francisco Peaks
A volcanic range north of Flagstaff, crowned by Humphreys Peak at 12,633 feet, the highest point in Arizona.
23 miles away
Agassiz Peak
Arizona's second-highest mountain at 12,360 feet, north of Flagstaff, open to climbers only in winter when it is under snow.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- National Monument
- Destination
- Flagstaff
- County
- Coconino County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- 220,205 (2024)
- What is counted
- recreation visits
Ranking
- Overall score
- 56.9 / 100
- Visitation score
- 47.2
- Popularity score
- 43.1
- Significance score
- 83.0
- Confidence
- high
Visiting
- Official website
- nps.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 35.5575, -111.3958
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12