1Score 51.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Santa Rita Mountains
A Madrean sky island range south-east of Tucson, rising to 9,453 feet at Mount Wrightson and containing Madera Canyon.
Attractions in Santa Cruz County
The 26 attractions in this database located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.
26 attractions
- 2Score 49.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Patagonia Mountains
A mountain range 15 miles long in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, lying within the Coronado National Forest. - 3Score 47.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Ruby
A ghost town in the Pajarita Wilderness near the Mexican border, founded as a mining camp in 1877 under the name Montana Camp. - 4Score 46.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mount Wrightson
A 9,456-foot peak in the Santa Rita Mountains within the Coronado National Forest, named for the miner William Wrightson. - 5Score 45.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Guevavi Mission
A Jesuit mission near Tumacácori, Arizona, founded in 1691 by Eusebio Kino and Juan María de Salvatierra as a district headquarters. - 6Score 45.2 out of 100
Historic Site
San Rafael Ranch
A historic cattle ranch in the San Rafael Valley, a mile and a half north of Lochiel and close to the border with Sonora. - 7Score 42.6 out of 100
State Park
Patagonia Lake State Park
A 250-acre lake south of Patagonia, created by damming Sonoita Creek, used for fishing, boating and birding. - 8Score 42.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Pete Kitchen Ranch
A ranch established on Potrero Creek near Nogales in about 1862, reputed to be the first permanent American ranch in Arizona. - 9Score 42.2 out of 100
Historic Site
Fort Buchanan
An 1856 US Army post south-west of Sonoita, burned by Apaches in 1865 and abandoned; its ruins were rediscovered in 1929. - 10Score 41.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Calabazas Mission
A Spanish mission, also known as Calabasas, in the Sonoran Desert near present-day Tumacácori, Arizona. - 11Score 41.3 out of 100
Observatory
Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's largest field station, on the summit of Mount Hopkins near Amado. - 12Score 40.9 out of 100
Observatory
VERITAS
A ground-based gamma-ray observatory of four 12-metre reflectors at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, completed in 2007. - 13Score 40.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Lochiel
A former border crossing and largely abandoned settlement in the San Rafael Valley, about 25 miles east of Nogales. - 14Score 39.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Harshaw
A silver-mining ghost town in Santa Cruz County, whose Hermosa mine yielded some $365,455 in bullion over four months in 1880. - 15Score 39.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Calabasas
A ghost town within Rio Rico, a suburb of Nogales in Santa Cruz County, whose name is Spanish for 'pumpkins'. - 16Score 37.3 out of 100
National Historic Site
Tumacácori National Historical Park
A park of three units in the Santa Cruz valley protecting the ruins of three Spanish mission communities. - 17Score 36.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Canelo Hills Cienega Reserve
A 260-acre Sonoita-area wetland reserve protecting the rare Canelo ladies' tresses orchid, a National Natural Landmark since 1974. - 18Score 36.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Onyx Cave
A half-mile solutional cave in Permian limestone in the Santa Rita Mountains, designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974. - 19Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Morley Avenue
A historic Nogales shopping street of early-1900s buildings, with several stores still run by descendants of their founders. - 20Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve
Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve, near Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, is a Nature Conservancy-managed wetland used for birdwatching. - 21Score 25.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Santa Cruz County Courthouse
Santa Cruz County Courthouse, an 1904 landmark in Nogales, Arizona, now houses Cochise College's Nogales branch and the Arizona Ranger Museum. - 22Score 24.6 out of 100
State Natural Area
Sonoita Creek State Natural Area
Nearly 10,000 acres of riparian and upland habitat below Patagonia Lake, an Important Bird Area with 106 recorded bird species. - 23Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Pimeria Alta Historical Society and Museum
Pimeria Alta Historical Society and Museum, in Nogales, Arizona, occupies the 1914 former City Hall and displays artefacts on the region's history. - 24Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Tubac Center for the Arts
Tubac Center for the Arts, in Tubac, Arizona, is run by a local artists' cooperative that organises art exhibits and workshops. - 25Score 19.8 out of 100
Landmark
Agua Linda Farm
A privately owned farm near Tubac that opens to the public for seasonal events such as a Garlic and Onion Festival. - 26Score 19.4 out of 100
State Historic Park
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park
The first park in the Arizona state system, preserving the ruins of the Presidio San Ignacio de Tubac.
Destinations in this county
Madera Canyon · Nogales · Patagonia · Sierra Vista · Sonoita · Tubac
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.