Arizona: 21 state parks, 8 historic sites, 2 natural areas and 1 recreation area

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Parks & natural areas 24

Alamo Lake State ParkOne of Arizona's best bass lakes, ringed by brush, cactus and mountain in the Bill Williams River Valley, far…
Buckskin Mountain State ParkA commanding view over the Parker Strip, the 18-mile stretch of Colorado River between Parker and Headgate…
Catalina State Park5,500 acres of foothills, canyons and streams at the foot of the Santa Catalina Mountains, holding nearly…
Cattail Cove State ParkTwo white sand beaches and 139 campsites on Lake Havasu, plus boat-in sites scattered along the shoreline…
Dankworth Pond State ParkA small, quiet water down the road from Roper Lake, stocked with rainbow trout through the winter and known…
Dead Horse Ranch State ParkA Verde River ranch the Ireys family bought in the 1940s and named after a dead horse their children could…
Fool Hollow Lake Recreation AreaCamping among tall pines beside a lake in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, opened in 1994 by a…
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State ParkDedicated in 2016 to the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots lost on the Yarnell Hill Fire in June 2013. The…
Homolovi State Park"Place of the Little Hills" in Hopi, and a research centre for the late Hopi migration period of the 1200s to…
Kartchner Caverns State ParkA limestone cave found in 1974 by two cavers who kept it secret for four years to protect it, at the eastern…
Lake Havasu State ParkBeaches, three boat ramps, 54 campsites and 13 beachside cabins on the shoreline near Lake Havasu City's…
Lost Dutchman State ParkSonoran Desert at the foot of the Superstition Mountains, 40 miles east of Phoenix and named for a gold mine…
Lyman Lake State ParkA 1,500-acre reservoir at 6,000 feet, fed by snowmelt off Mount Baldy and Escudilla Mountain and one of the…
Oracle State ParkA 4,000-acre wildlife refuge in the northern Catalina foothills with more than 15 miles of trail for walkers…
Patagonia Lake State ParkA lake in the rolling hills of southeastern Arizona with a beach, marina, boat-in campsites and a creek trail…
Picacho Peak State ParkThe 1,500-foot peak that has guided travellers past this stretch of southern Arizona since prehistory…
Red Rock State ParkA 286-acre nature preserve and environmental education center where Oak Creek meanders between red rock hills…
River Island State ParkThirty-seven campsites, a sandy beach, a cove and a boat launch on the Colorado River, laid out with tent…
Rockin' River Ranch State Park209 day-use acres where West Clear Creek meets the Verde River, a former ranch now given over to walking and…
Roper Lake State ParkThree lakeside campgrounds and eight camping cabins at the foot of Mount Graham, six miles south of Safford…
Slide Rock State ParkA 43-acre apple farm in Oak Creek Canyon, homesteaded by Frank Pendley in 1910 and still watered by the…
Sonoita Creek State Natural AreaA perennial stretch of lower Sonoita Creek below Patagonia Lake, whose water supports uncommon plants and an…
Tonto Natural Bridge State ParkBelieved to be the largest travertine natural bridge in the world: 183 feet high over a 400-foot tunnel that…
Verde River Greenway State Natural AreaAlmost 1,000 acres of riparian and upland habitat along 35 miles of the Verde River, one of the desert's few…

Historic sites & museums 8

Colorado River State Historic ParkTen acres of the old U.S. Army Quartermaster Depot, established at Yuma in 1864 to supply every military post…
Fort Verde State Historic ParkThe best-preserved Indian Wars fort in Arizona, base for General Crook's scouts and soldiers in the 1870s and…
Jerome State Historic ParkThe Douglas Mansion, built in 1916 on the hill above the Little Daisy Mine and now a museum of the Jerome…
McFarland State Historic ParkAn 1878 Florence courthouse built by hand from local adobe, its wood-shingled pitched roof marking the…
Riordan Mansion State Historic ParkA 40-room, 13,000-square-foot Arts and Crafts house built in 1904 for two Riordan families, with log-slab…
Tombstone Courthouse State Historic ParkThe two-storey red brick courthouse built in 1882 for Cochise County, in Victorian style and in use until the…
Tubac Presidio State Historic ParkArizona's first state park, preserving the ruins of San Ignacio de Tubac, the oldest Spanish presidio site in…
Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic ParkThe ruins of Arizona's territorial prison on a bluff above the Colorado River, begun in 1876 by convicts…

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