0.2 miles away
Yuma Crossing
A crossing of the Colorado River between Arizona and California, used in the Spanish colonial period and after.
Yuma Territorial Prison
A prison that took inmates from 1876 to 1909, now operated as a museum by Arizona State Parks in Yuma.
- Rank in Arizona
- #268of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 43.0 out of 100high confidence
- Annual visits
- 51,262counted in 2024
- Category
- State Historic Park
Yuma Territorial Prison is a former prison in Yuma, Arizona, which opened on 1 July 1876 and closed on 15 September 1909. The site is now operated as a historical museum by Arizona State Parks, as Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park. It is one of the Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, within the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area. It recorded 51,262 visits in 2024.
Where it is
Yuma Territorial Prison is a state historic park near Yuma, in Yuma County. It is one of the state historic parks 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.
Mentioned in
- Five parks carry half of Arizona's state park visits — Arizona's 32 state park units recorded 3,122,079 visits in 2024, and the five busiest accounted for 53 per cent of them.
Sources
- Visitation: Arizona Office of Tourism Monthly State Parks Visitation Report (December 2025); source Arizona State Parks, compiled by AHRRC(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.azstateparks.com/yuma-territorial(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Nearby attractions
0.2 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.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.
4.6 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 2015.6.8 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
- State Historic Park
- Destination
- Yuma
- County
- Yuma County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- 51,262 (2024)
- What is counted
- visits
Ranking
- Overall score
- 43.0 / 100
- Visitation score
- 24.9
- Popularity score
- 54.9
- Significance score
- 60.0
- Confidence
- high
Visiting
- Official website
- azstateparks.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 32.7265, -114.6144
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12