1Score 64.2 out of 100
Natural Landmark
San Pedro Valley
A valley running 140 miles north from Sonora into Arizona, carrying the San Pedro River to Winkelman.
Attractions in Cochise County
The 82 attractions in this database located in Cochise County, Arizona.
82 attractions
- 2Score 58.7 out of 100
Museum
The Thing?
A roadside attraction on Interstate 10 displaying a supposed mummified mother and child, advertised for miles by billboards. - 3Score 55.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Sierra Bonita Ranch
A Sulphur Springs Valley cattle ranch founded by Henry C. Hooker in 1872, the first permanent American cattle ranch in Arizona. - 4Score 55.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Contention City
A ghost mining town in Cochise County, settled and abandoned in the 1880s with the rise and fall of silver mining near Tombstone. - 5Score 52.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Chiricahua Mountains
A range in south-eastern Arizona rising to 9,759 feet at Chiricahua Peak, lying largely within the Coronado National Forest. - 6Score 52.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Boothill Graveyard
A Tombstone graveyard of at least 250 interments, used after 1883 only for the burial of outlaws and a few others. - 7Score 51.9 out of 100
State Park
Kartchner Caverns State Park
A living limestone cave near Benson, found in 1974 and kept from the public while conservation measures were designed. - 8Score 51.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Dragoon Mountains
A 25-mile range in Cochise County named after the U.S. Cavalry Dragoons who fought the Chiricahua during the Apache Wars. - 9Score 51.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Fort Bowie
A US Army post established in 1862 near Apache Pass, central to operations that ended with the surrender of Geronimo in 1886. - 10Score 51.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Coronado National Forest
A national forest of about 1.78 million acres spread across mountain ranges in south-eastern Arizona and south-western New Mexico. - 11Score 51.3 out of 100
Museum
Bird Cage Theatre
A former theatre in Tombstone that operated intermittently from December 1881 to 1894, and was leased as a coffee shop from 1934. - 12Score 51.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site
A National Historic Landmark on the San Pedro River where Paleo-Indians killed mammoths 11,000 to 12,000 years before the present. - 13Score 51.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Willcox Playa
A 40-square-mile dry lake beside Willcox, remnant of Pleistocene Lake Cochise and a National Natural Landmark since 1966. - 14Score 49.9 out of 100
Historic Site
Charleston
A ghost town on the San Pedro River in Cochise County that milled silver ore from Tombstone in the 1870s and 1880s. - 15Score 49.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Tombstone Historic District
A National Historic Landmark district in Tombstone, a boom-and-bust mining town, taking in the O.K. Corral of the 1881 gunfight. - 16Score 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. - 17Score 49.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Pearce
A ghost town and unincorporated community in the Sulphur Springs Valley of Cochise County, adjoining the settlement of Sunsites. - 18Score 48.4 out of 100
National Historic Site
Coronado National Memorial
A memorial on the Mexican border marking where Coronado's 1540 expedition entered what is now Arizona. - 19Score 48.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Paradise
A small ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, settled in 1901 while the area was still the Arizona Territory. - 20Score 48.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Huachuca Mountains
A range in south-eastern Arizona rising to 9,466 feet at Miller Peak, divided between the Coronado National Forest and Fort Huachuca. - 21Score 47.6 out of 100
Canyon
Texas Canyon
A boulder-strewn valley on Interstate 10 east of Benson, between the Dragoon and Little Dragoon Mountains, named for settlers from Texas. - 22Score 47.4 out of 100
Historic Site
San Bernardino Ranch
A National Historic Landmark ranch in south-eastern Cochise County, home of the lawman John Horton Slaughter from the 1880s until 1922. - 23Score 47.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Copper Queen Mine
A Bisbee copper mine worked from the 1880s on an orebody running 23 per cent copper, once the most productive in Arizona. - 24Score 46.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Iron Springs (Cochise County, Arizona)
A spring in the Whetstone Mountains where Wyatt Earp killed William "Curly Bill" Brocius in March 1882, later mapped as Mescal Springs. - 25Score 46.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Murray Springs Clovis Site
A Clovis hunting camp near the San Pedro River, with five excavated kill and butchery sites dating to about 11,000 BP. - 26Score 46.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Apache Pass
A 5,110-foot pass between the Dos Cabezas and Chiricahua Mountains east of Willcox, known in Spanish as Puerto del Dado. - 27Score 44.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Cochise
An unincorporated community in Cochise County, founded in the 1880s as a coal and water stop on the railway. - 28Score 44.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Whetstone Mountains
A range in south-eastern Arizona named in 1859 for its novaculite, a fine-grained rock used to sharpen tools. - 29Score 44.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Chiricahua Peak
The highest point of the Chiricahua Mountains and of Cochise County, at 9,773 feet, with southernmost Engelmann spruce. - 30Score 43.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Parker Canyon Lake
A reservoir in the Canelo Hills of Cochise County, 28 miles south-west of Sierra Vista and 5 miles from Mexico. - 31Score 43.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Fairbank
A ghost town on the San Pedro River, settled in 1881 as the nearest rail stop to Tombstone and now inside a conservation area. - 32Score 43.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Schieffelin Hall
An 1881 adobe opera house, theatre and meeting hall at Tombstone, described as the largest standing adobe structure in the South-West. - 33Score 43.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Cienega of San Simon
A former cienega, or area of springs, 13 miles up the San Simon River from San Simon Station in Cochise County. - 34Score 41.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Sulphur Springs Valley
A valley in the eastern half of Cochise County, the large flatland west of the Chiricahua and Dos Cabezas mountains. - 35Score 41.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Gleeson
A ghost town in south-eastern Cochise County, first settled as Turquoise in the 1870s and re-established under its present name in 1900. - 36Score 41.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Miller Peak
A 9,470-foot summit in the Huachuca Mountains south of Sierra Vista, the southernmost land above 9,000 feet in the continental United States. - 37Score 41.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Brunckow's Cabin
A ruined cabin south-west of Tombstone where at least twenty-one people were killed between 1860 and 1890, many buried on the site. - 38Score 39.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Peloncillo Mountains
A range in north-eastern Cochise County, part of the Madrean Sky Islands, lying east of the Willcox Playa and San Simon Valley. - 39Score 39.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Double Adobe Site
A Whitewater Draw site excavated from 1926 by Byron Cummings and Emil Haury, which defined the Cochise culture in 1941. - 40Score 38.2 out of 100
Museum
Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
Bisbee's mining history museum occupies the Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a National Historic Landmark. - 41Score 37.4 out of 100
Landmark
Warren Ballpark
A 1909 mining-company ballpark in Bisbee, where 1,300 miners seized in the Bisbee Deportation were held in 1917. - 42Score 37.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area
A 57,000-acre BLM conservation area in Cochise County protecting 40 miles of the upper San Pedro River, designated by Congress in 1988. - 43Score 34.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Grand Theatre
Douglas, Arizona's 1919 Grand Theatre, once host to Ginger Rogers and John Philip Sousa, is under restoration after decades of neglect. - 44Score 32.8 out of 100
Museum
Amerind Foundation
A private museum and research facility in Cochise County's Texas Canyon, dedicated to Native American cultures and histories. - 45Score 32.7 out of 100
Museum
Muheim Heritage House Museum
A fully restored 1898-1900 house museum in Bisbee named for merchant Joseph Muheim, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. - 46Score 31.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Brown Canyon Ranch
A historic ranch, formerly the Barchas Ranch, in the Huachuca Mountains' foothills near Sierra Vista, with trails linking to the National Forest. - 47Score 30.0 out of 100
Museum
Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum and Cowboy Hall of Fame
A Willcox museum honouring singing cowboy and Disney narrator Rex Allen (1920-1999), with an adjoining local cowboy hall of fame. - 48Score 29.8 out of 100
State Historic Park
Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park
The 1882 Cochise County courthouse in Tombstone, now a museum and the first Arizona state park to open. - 49Score 26.4 out of 100
Canyon
French Joe Canyon
A Cochise County canyon near Benson named for an early prospector, known for reliable springs and used by birdwatchers. - 50Score 26.4 out of 100
Canyon
Garden Canyon
A Cochise County canyon near Sierra Vista with Apache and Hohokam pictograph sites, dated to around 1700 CE and 400–1250 CE respectively. - 51Score 26.4 out of 100
Canyon
Ramsey Canyon Preserve
Ramsey Canyon Preserve, near Sierra Vista, Arizona, has recorded more than 170 bird species, including 14 hummingbird species, along its hiking trails. - 52Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Camp Naco
A 1917 border fort near Bisbee, said to be the only one remaining on the US-Mexico line, partly restored and partly fenced off. - 53Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Camp Rucker
A former U.S. Army post in the Chiricahua Mountains, abandoned in 1890, with a number of buildings still standing. - 54Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Cochise County Courthouse
Bisbee's Art Deco county courthouse, designed by Roy Place, with copper doors and New Deal-era artwork including a hardware relief map. - 55Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Cochise Stronghold
A Dragoon Mountains site believed to be the burial place of Apache chief Cochise, and the start of the five-mile Cochise Trail. - 56Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Copper Miner
A 1935 New Deal sculpture in Bisbee, cast in concrete and copper, modelled on local resident Lee Petrovitch to honour the town's miners. - 57Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Council Rocks
A Dragoon Mountains site amid boulders with pre-Columbian pictographs, believed to be where Cochise and General Howard negotiated an 1872 treaty. - 58Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Douglas Williams House
A small museum in Douglas, Arizona, displaying historic photographs and memorabilia from the surrounding area. - 59Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Dragoon Springs
A Dragoon Mountains site with a ruined Butterfield stagecoach station and Civil War graves from the First Battle of Dragoon Springs. - 60Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Ed Schieffelin Monument
A monument near Tombstone marking the site of Ed Schieffelin's silver claim, the discovery that led to the town's founding. - 61Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Faraway Ranch
A former homestead in Chiricahua National Monument, settled in 1887 by Swedish immigrants Emma and Neil Erickson, later expanded into a house. - 62Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Geronimo Surrender Monument
A Chiricahua Mountains monument marking the 1886 surrender of Geronimo to General Nelson Miles, near the largely inaccessible actual site. - 63Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Guindani Trail (#398)
A steep Cochise County trail to San Pedro Valley views of the Huachuca and Dragoon Mountains, starting within Kartchner Caverns State Park. - 64Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Lavender Pit
A former Bisbee copper mine that produced about 600,000 tons of copper from 1950 to 1974, viewable from a roadside platform. - 65Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
O.K. Corral
Tombstone's O.K. Corral, a former horse corral and National Historic Landmark, stages a daily re-enactment of its namesake gunfight. - 66Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Old Post Cemetery
Old Post Cemetery, in Sierra Vista, Arizona, holds the graves of Apache Wars cavalry, Buffalo Soldiers, and Apache scouts, some marked only 'Unknown'. - 67Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Presidio Santa Cruz de Terranate
Presidio Santa Cruz de Terranate, near Tombstone, Arizona, holds the most intact US remains of a Spanish colonial fortress, built in 1776 and abandoned by 1780. - 68Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Reservoir Hill Overlook
Reservoir Hill Overlook, in Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, gives views over the fort and the neighbouring Whetstone Mountains. - 69Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area
Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area, near Douglas, Arizona, hosts about 20,000 wintering sandhill cranes each year, most visible from December to February. - 70Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Willcox Pioneer Cemetery
Willcox Pioneer Cemetery, in Willcox, Arizona, is an abandoned pioneer cemetery and the burial site of Warren Baxter Earp, youngest of the Earp brothers. - 71Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Willcox Southern Pacific Railroad Depot
Willcox Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, built in 1881, is the only surviving southern transcontinental railroad depot and now houses Willcox City Hall. - 72Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Border Air Museum
The Border Air Museum in Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona, is dedicated to the history of cross-border aviation. - 73Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Chiricahua Regional Museum and Research Center
A small Willcox, Arizona museum with displays focused on the local history of the surrounding region. - 74Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Fort Huachuca Museum
Fort Huachuca Museum, in Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, is a museum that includes a small gift shop. - 75Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Gammons Gulch Movie Set and Museum
A working movie set and museum near Benson, Arizona, closed to visitors during filming, with a collection of movie memorabilia and antiques. - 76Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Henry F Hauser Museum
A small Sierra Vista museum of historic artefacts and photographs from the surrounding Cochise County region. - 77Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Rose Tree Museum
Rose Tree Museum, in Tombstone, Arizona, is said to house the world's largest rose tree alongside its historical exhibits. - 78Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
San Pedro Valley Arts & Historical Society
San Pedro Valley Arts & Historical Society, in Benson, Arizona, displays local and regional history and sells local artisans' work in its gift shop. - 79Score 24.2 out of 100
- 80Score 19.8 out of 100
Landmark
Apple Annie's Orchards
A pick-your-own orchard near Willcox growing apples and peaches, which also hosts an annual October pumpkin festival. - 81Score 19.8 out of 100
Landmark
Arizona Folklore Preserve
The Arizona Folklore Preserve is a music venue near Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, that hosts musicians in concert. - 82Score 19.8 out of 100
Landmark
Southwest Research Station
Southwest Research Station, in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, is run by the American Museum of Natural History and offers birdwatching tours.
Destinations in this county
Benson · Bisbee · Chiricahua Mountains · Chiricahua National Monument · Douglas · Dragoon Mountains · Sierra Vista · Tombstone · Willcox
County is resolved from each attraction's coordinates against U.S. Census geography rather than entered by hand, so a place near a county line is filed where it actually sits.