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Tombstone & Bisbee

Things to see in Tombstone & Bisbee

12 sights, museums, parks and places worth the stop.

The red-brick Phelps Dodge General Office Building in Bisbee, home of the mining museum

Bisbee ยท Museums

Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum

A Smithsonian Affiliate museum in the 1896 Phelps Dodge headquarters

Balanced rhyolite pinnacle and rock formations in Chiricahua National Park under a blue sky

Willcox ยท National Parks

Chiricahua National Park

The 'Wonderland of Rocks', America's 64th national park since October 20, 2026

View west from Montezuma Pass over grassland and the southern Huachuca Mountains

Sierra Vista ยท National Parks

Coronado National Memorial

Border-top views of the San Pedro Valley, a wild limestone cave and the start of the Arizona Trail

The red-brick Victorian Cochise County courthouse in Tombstone with its white-columned porch

Tombstone ยท Historic Sites

Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park

The 1882 Cochise County courthouse, Arizona's first operating state park

Calcite formations lit in the Big Room of Kartchner Caverns

Sierra Vista ยท Natural Wonders

Kartchner Caverns State Park

A living limestone cave, kept secret for years and shown only on guided tours

The 'Welcome to Boothill Graveyard' marker and gift shop beside Highway 80 in Tombstone

Tombstone ยท Historic Sites

Boothill Graveyard

Tombstone's 1879-1884 cemetery, where the men killed in the 1881 gunfight are buried

The Queen Mine Tours building in Bisbee with its timbered tour entrance and old mining equipment outside

Bisbee ยท Historic Sites

Copper Queen Mine Tour

Hard hat, headlamp and a mine train 1,500 feet into the Copper Queen

Ramsey Creek flowing over rocks under trees in Ramsey Canyon

Sierra Vista ยท Wildlife Viewing

Ramsey Canyon Preserve

A cool, spring-fed canyon in the Huachucas, famous for hummingbirds

Low adobe wall ruins of Fort Bowie on a grassy slope at Apache Pass

Willcox ยท Historic Sites

Fort Bowie National Historic Site

Adobe ruins at Apache Pass, reached on foot along a 3-mile trail through history

Terraced, multicolored walls of the Lavender Pit open-pit copper mine at Bisbee

Bisbee ยท Historic Sites

Lavender Pit

A 900-foot-deep former open-pit copper mine on the edge of Old Bisbee

Front of the O.K. Corral on Allen Street in Tombstone with its painted livery-stable and gunfight-site signs

Tombstone ยท Historic Sites

O.K. Corral

A privately run museum complex around the site of the 1881 gunfight

The San Pedro River running between cottonwoods and dry grass in winter

Sierra Vista ยท Historic Sites

San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area

Forty miles of cottonwood-lined river, birds by the hundred and 13,000 years of human history