Santa Cruz County, Arizona
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- Atascosa Lookout Trail #100 — Natural · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Coronado National Forest trail west of Peña Blanca Lake climbing ~2.5 miles to the former Atascosa Peak fire lookout site (lookout lost in the 2011 Murphey C…
- Harshaw — Ghost Town · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Silver-mining camp south of Patagonia in the Patagonia Mountains, active from the 1870s–1880s with later revivals. Today forest roads pass adobe ruins, the F…
- Lochiel — Ghost Town · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Quiet former border hamlet in the San Rafael Valley where a U.S. customs station once faced Mexico across a lonely cattle country road. Scattered historic bu…
- Madera Canyon — Wildlife · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Coronado National Forest sky-island canyon on the northwest flank of the Santa Rita Mountains, one of the premier birding destinations in the United States (…
- Patagonia Lake State Park — Wildlife · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Arizona State Parks reservoir and adjacent Sonoita Creek corridor in the sky-island foothills southeast of Tucson—prime desert birding (neotropical migrants,…
- Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve — Natural · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Nature Conservancy preserve protecting one of the richest cottonwood–willow riparian corridors in southern Arizona along perennial Sonoita Creek. Visitor cen…
- Peña Blanca Lake — Natural · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Coronado National Forest recreation lake (~50 acres) in Peña Blanca Canyon, foothills of the Atascosa and Pajarito Mountains west of I-19 near Nogales. Named…
- Ruby — Ghost Town · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Ruby is a remarkably intact early-20th-century mining camp in the Oro Blanco Mountains near the Mexican border. Schoolhouse, jail, homes, and mill ruins surv…
- Sycamore Canyon Trail #40 — Natural · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Coronado National Forest trail into a perennial Madrean canyon in the Pajarito Mountains west of Peña Blanca Lake — one of extreme southern Arizona’s richest…
- Tubac Presidio State Historic Park — Historic · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Arizona’s oldest Spanish presidio site (San Ignacio de Tubac, founded 1752) with excavated foundations, 1885 schoolhouse, museum, and Juan Bautista de Anza N…
- Tumacácori National Historical Park — Historic · Santa Cruz County, AZ
National Historical Park preserving Spanish colonial mission ruins on the Santa Cruz River — Mission San José de Tumacácori (Jesuit founding 1691; present ch…
- Washington Camp — Ghost Town · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Patagonia Mountains silver-lead mining camp south of Harshaw that thrived in the late 19th–early 20th centuries. Townsite remnants and mill-era footprints si…