10 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.
Yuma Desert
A low-lying section of the Sonoran Desert receiving under 8 inches of rain a year, among the harshest deserts in North America.
- Rank in Arizona
- #144of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 48.8 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Natural Landmark
The Yuma Desert is a lower-elevation section of the Sonoran Desert in the south-west of the United States and the north-west of Mexico, lying within the Salton basin. Vegetation across it is sparse, and it contains substantial areas of sand dunes. Average annual rainfall is less than 8 inches, and it is among the harshest deserts in North America. Human presence is sparse throughout; the largest city is Yuma, on the Colorado River at the California border.
Where it is
Yuma Desert is a natural landmark near Yuma, in Yuma 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
No official visitor count is published for Yuma Desert, 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.
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Nearby attractions
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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.
14 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.
14 miles away
Yuma Crossing
A crossing of the Colorado River between Arizona and California, used in the Spanish colonial period and after.
14 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.
14 miles away
Colorado River State Historic Park
A state park in Yuma preserving the 1870s quartermaster depot that supplied the south-western frontier forts.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Yuma
- County
- Yuma County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 48.8 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 37.8
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 32.5278, -114.5711
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12