1Score 63.2 out of 100
Landmark
Biosphere 2
The largest closed ecological system ever created, built by 1991 and now a University of Arizona research facility.
Attractions in Pinal County
The 28 attractions in this database located in Pinal County, Arizona.
28 attractions
- 2Score 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. - 3Score 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. - 4Score 53.1 out of 100
Historic Site
Gila River War Relocation Center
A War Relocation Authority camp near Sacaton that held 13,348 incarcerated Japanese Americans between 1942 and 1945. - 5Score 51.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Pinal City
A ghost town in Pinal County, populated from the 1870s into the 1890s, of which only a few foundations remain. - 6Score 51.2 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Superstition Mountain
A landmark mountain east of Apache Junction anchoring the Superstition Mountains and central to the Lost Dutchman legend. - 7Score 48.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Weaver's Needle
A 1,000-foot rock spire in the Superstition Mountains, tied to the legend of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine and visible for many miles. - 8Score 47.9 out of 100
State Park
Lost Dutchman State Park
A 320-acre park at the foot of the Superstition Mountains, named for a lost gold mine of Old West legend. - 9Score 47.8 out of 100
State Park
Picacho Peak State Park
The 3,374-foot spire of Picacho Peak, between Casa Grande and Tucson and visible from the city 45 miles away. - 10Score 47.8 out of 100
Historic Site
St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery (Florence, Arizona)
The largest Orthodox monastic complex in the Western Hemisphere, founded in 1995 in the Sonoran Desert outside Florence. - 11Score 45.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Oak Flat
A mesa in the Tonto National Forest east of Phoenix, sacred to the San Carlos Apache and listed on the National Register. - 12Score 42.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Ray
A Pinal County ghost town beside a large copper mine, emptied from 1958 when Kennecott moved its residents to the new town of Kearny. - 13Score 41.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Camp Grant
A US military post at the San Pedro River and Aravaipa Creek, built in 1860 as Fort Breckinridge and replaced in 1872; little of it remains. - 14Score 41.3 out of 100
Botanical Garden
Boyce Thompson Arboretum
Arizona's oldest botanical garden, founded in 1924 on 392 acres along Queen Creek and growing more than 2,600 arid-land plant species. - 15Score 40.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Peppersauce Cave
A limestone cave with about a mile of mapped passages in the Santa Catalina Mountains south of Oracle, visited by some 23,000 people a year. - 16Score 39.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Sasco
A ghost town in Pinal County west of Red Rock, built as a company town around a large smelter serving several mines. - 17Score 36.5 out of 100
Landmark
Arizona Renaissance Festival
A Renaissance fair at Gold Canyon in Pinal County, first run in 1989 and held from mid-winter to early spring as the village of Fairhaven. - 18Score 35.0 out of 100
Landmark
Casa Grande Photogrammetric Test Range
272 concrete survey markers on a 16-mile grid around Casa Grande, maintained from 1959 to 1972 and commonly but wrongly linked to the Corona satellites. - 19Score 32.7 out of 100
Museum
Acadia Ranch Museum
A historic Oracle ranch complex built 1885-1930, listed on the National Register in 1984 and run as a museum by the Oracle Historical Society. - 20Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Goldfield Ghost Town
An 1893 mining settlement below the Superstition Mountains, rebuilt in full as a visitor attraction. - 21Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Superstition Wilderness
Superstition Wilderness, in Pinal County, Arizona, is a Tonto National Forest area covering the Superstition Mountains, with trails and dispersed camping. - 22Score 24.2 out of 100
- 23Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Pinal Geology & Mineral Museum
Pinal Geology & Mineral Museum, in Coolidge, Pinal County, Arizona, displays minerals and fossilised dinosaur bones. - 24Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Superstition Mountain Museum
Superstition Mountain Museum, in Apache Junction, Arizona, spans 12.5 acres and includes the relocated Elvis Memorial Chapel and Audie Murphy Barn. - 25Score 21.8 out of 100
State Park
Oracle State Park
A 3,948-acre wildlife refuge and state park in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains near Oracle. - 26Score 19.8 out of 100
Landmark
Casa Grande Main Street District
Downtown Casa Grande's historic district, home to a number of buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. - 27Score 19.8 out of 100
Landmark
Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch
Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch, near Picacho, Arizona, lets visitors feed ostriches and other animals and offers monster truck tours of the ranch. - 28Score 18.0 out of 100
State Historic Park
McFarland State Historic Park
A preserved territorial courthouse in Florence, commemorating Ernest McFarland, who bought and donated it.
Destinations in this county
Apache Junction · Casa Grande · Chandler · Coolidge · Florence · Globe · Oracle · Picacho
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.