0.0 miles away
Ocean To Ocean Bridge
A 1915 through truss bridge at Yuma, the first highway crossing of the lower Colorado and the only Pennsylvania truss in Arizona.
Yuma Crossing
A crossing of the Colorado River between Arizona and California, used in the Spanish colonial period and after.
- Rank in Arizona
- #81of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 52.7 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
Yuma Crossing is a site in Arizona and California significant for its association with transportation and communication across the Colorado River. It connected New Spain and Las Californias in the Spanish colonial period, and served the westward expansion of the United States afterwards. Features on the Arizona side include the Yuma Quartermaster Depot and the Yuma Territorial Prison; on the California side is Fort Yuma, which protected the area from 1850 to 1885.
Where it is
Yuma Crossing is a historic site near Yuma, in Yuma County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Yuma Crossing, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. 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: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- 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.
More photographs
Public domain · source(opens in a new tab) 
Public domain · source(opens in a new tab)
Nearby attractions
0.2 miles away
Yuma Territorial Prison
A prison that took inmates from 1876 to 1909, now operated as a museum by Arizona State Parks in Yuma.0.4 miles away
Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens
Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens, in Yuma, Arizona, is an 1870s adobe house with exhibits on the lower Colorado River region since the 1540s.
0.7 miles away
Colorado River State Historic Park
A state park in Yuma preserving the 1870s quartermaster depot that supplied the south-western frontier forts.
4.7 miles away
Desert Sun Stadium
A Yuma stadium built for the 1970 spring training season, home of the San Diego Padres until 1993 and converted for soccer in 2015.6.7 miles away
Morelos Dam
The last dam on the Colorado River, built in 1950 to divert Mexico's treaty share of the water to the Mexicali Valley.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Yuma
- County
- Yuma County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Historic Landmark · National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 52.7 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 28.4
- Significance score
- 73.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 32.7286, -114.6156
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12