La Paz County, Arizona
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- Alamo Lake State Park — Natural · La Paz County, AZ
Remote state park on a desert reservoir in the Bill Williams River valley north of Wenden — mountain-ringed bass fishery, dark-sky stargazing, and year-round…
- Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge — Wildlife · La Paz County, AZ
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service refuge at the Bill Williams River delta into Lake Havasu, protecting a rare cottonwood–willow riparian gallery forest in the low…
- Buckskin Mountain State Park — Natural · La Paz County, AZ
Arizona State Park on the Colorado River north of Parker with riverfront camping, day-use beaches, and desert-mountain hiking on the Buckskin range. Classic …
- Camp Bouse — Historic · La Paz County, AZ
Desert Training Center WWII secret camp in Butler Valley east of Bouse where ~5,500 volunteers of the 9th Tank Group trained with Canal Defense Light (CDL) ‘…
- Cibola National Wildlife Refuge — Wildlife · La Paz County, AZ
Lower Colorado River National Wildlife Refuge in the Yuma Desert floodplain with channelized river, backwaters, farmed moist-soil units, and desert ridges. C…
- Crystal Hill — Geology · La Paz County, AZ
Classic western-Arizona BLM quartz-crystal collecting hill north of Quartzsite, long favored by winter rockhounds for clear and smoky quartz points weathered…
- Ehrenberg — Historic · La Paz County, AZ
Colorado River landing and supply town opposite the California shore, a late-nineteenth-century freight hub later bypassed by rail and highways. Historic pin…
- Harquahala Peak Observatory — Historic · La Paz County, AZ
Ruins of a 1920s Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory solar-radiation station on the 5,681-ft summit of Harquahala Mountain—highest peak in southwestern Ari…
- Hi Jolly Monument — Historic · La Paz County, AZ
National Register pyramid tomb of Hadji Ali (“Hi Jolly”), Syrian-born camel driver for the 1850s U.S. Army Camel Corps experiment, in Quartzsite’s pioneer ce…
- La Paz — Ghost Town · La Paz County, AZ
Colorado River gold-rush town founded in 1862 after Pauline Weaver’s placer discovery; it briefly was among the largest settlements in the new Arizona Territ…
- Poston Memorial Monument — Historic · La Paz County, AZ
Outdoor memorial on the Colorado River Indian Reservation south of Parker marking the Poston War Relocation Center—the largest of the WWII WRA camps by area,…
- Swansea — Ghost Town · La Paz County, AZ
Remote copper-smelter ghost town on BLM land between Parker and Bouse, with restored miners' cabins, mill foundations, a railroad grade, and two cemeteries. …
- The Eagles Eye — Geology · La Paz County, AZ
Named natural arch in the desert ranges east of Quartzsite / north of the Kofa country, a windowed rock fin in the Plomosa–Eagletail approaches. Thin geology…