1Score 66.6 out of 100
National Monument
Montezuma Castle National Monument
A five-storey Sinagua cliff dwelling at Camp Verde, built by 1125 AD and viewed from the trail below.
National Monuments in Arizona
Federally protected landmarks, structures or objects of historic or scientific interest.
18 national monuments
- 2Score 66.2 out of 100
National Monument
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Three canyons on Navajo Nation land, continuously inhabited for nearly 5,000 years and still farmed today. - 3Score 64.9 out of 100
National Monument
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
A 293,689-acre monument south of the Utah line protecting the Paria Plateau, Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon and the Wave. - 4Score 59.8 out of 100
National Monument
Agua Fria National Monument
A 72,344-acre national monument north of Phoenix, holding over 450 recorded Native American structures on Bureau of Land Management land. - 5Score 59.5 out of 100
National Monument
Hohokam Pima National Monument
A Hohokam village site near Sacaton, protected since 1972 and kept closed to the public by the Gila River Indian Community. - 6Score 58.9 out of 100
National Monument
Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument
A national monument of more than 900,000 acres around the Grand Canyon, designated in 2023 and closed permanently to new uranium mining. - 7Score 56.9 out of 100
National Monument
Wupatki National Monument
Red sandstone pueblos built by ancestral Puebloan farmers near Flagstaff, including a hundred-room great house. - 8Score 54.7 out of 100
National Monument
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Sinagua cliff dwellings in the ledges of a canyon near Flagstaff, reached by a trail that drops 185 feet. - 9Score 54.3 out of 100
National Monument
Ironwood Forest National Monument
A 129,055-acre Bureau of Land Management monument in the Sonoran Desert, created in 2000 for its ironwood stands and Hohokam sites. - 10Score 54.1 out of 100
National Monument
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
A four-storey Hohokam earthen building, and the first archaeological site in the US to be federally protected. - 11Score 53.4 out of 100
National Monument
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
A UNESCO biosphere reserve on the Mexican border, and one of the few places organ pipe cactus grows wild in the US. - 12Score 53.3 out of 100
National Monument
Sonoran Desert National Monument
A 496,400-acre monument south of Goodyear and east of Gila Bend, proclaimed in 2001 and managed by the Bureau of Land Management. - 13Score 50.5 out of 100
National Monument
Sunset Crater
The youngest volcano in the San Francisco volcanic field, erupted around 1085 CE north of Flagstaff. - 14Score 49.7 out of 100
National Monument
Chiricahua National Monument
A National Park System unit in south-eastern Arizona, established in 1924 to protect its hoodoos and balancing rocks. - 15Score 48.3 out of 100
National Monument
Tuzigoot National Monument
A 110-room hilltop pueblo of stone masonry, built along a limestone ridge above the Verde River floodplain. - 16Score 48.1 out of 100
National Monument
Navajo National Monument
A National Park System unit on the Shonto Plateau preserving three Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings. - 17Score 39.9 out of 100
National Monument
Pipe Spring National Monument
A National Park Service monument in northern Arizona holding Native American, explorer and Mormon pioneer history. - 18Score 39.3 out of 100
National Monument
Tonto National Monument
A national monument in the Superstition Mountains of Gila County, at the edge of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion.
How this category is scored
Every attraction in this category starts from a significance baseline of 78 out of 100, before any designations it holds are added. The full table is on the methodology page.
12 of 18 publish an official visitor count. The rest are ranked on public interest and significance and are marked at lower confidence.