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Areas controlled by the National Park System include:
  • Canyon De Chelly National Monument
    Canyon de Chelly National Monument

    Canyon de Chelly National Monument was established April 1, 1931, as a unit of the National Park Service and is located in northeastern Arizona within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation....
     in Chinle
    Chinle, Arizona

    Chinle is a census-designated place in Apache County, Arizona, Arizona, United States. The population was 5,366 at the United States Census, 2000....
  • Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
    Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

    Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, in Coolidge, Arizona, just northeast of the city of Casa Grande, Arizona, preserves a group of Hohokam structures....
     near Coolidge
    Coolidge, Arizona

    Coolidge is a city in Pinal County, Arizona, Arizona, United States. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 8,154....
  • Chiricahua National Monument
    Chiricahua National Monument

    Chiricahua National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service. The monument is located approximately southeast of Willcox, Arizona. It preserves the remains of an immense volcanic eruption that shook the region some 27 million years ago....
     at Willcox
    Willcox, Arizona

    Willcox is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 3,769....
  • Coronado National Memorial
    Coronado National Memorial

    Coronado National Memorial, near Sierra Vista, Arizona, commemorates the first organized expedition into the Southwest by conquistador Francisco V?squez de Coronado....
     in Hereford
    Hereford, Arizona

    Hereford is an unincorporated area in Cochise County, Arizona along the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area in the southern part of the U.S....
  • Fort Bowie National Historic Site
    Fort Bowie National Historic Site

    Fort Bowie National Historic Site is a United States National Historical Park located near Apache Pass in southeastern Arizona. The historic site was established in 1972 to commemorate the bitter conflict between the Chiricahua Apaches and the United States military and to preserve the ruins of Fort Bowie....
     in Willcox
  • Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
    Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

    Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is a recreation and conservation unit of the National Park Service that encompasses the area around Lake Powell in Utah and Arizona, covering 1,254,429 acres of mostly desert....
  • Grand Canyon National Park
    Grand Canyon National Park

    Grand Canyon National Park is one of the United States' oldest U.S. National Park and is located in Arizona. Within the park lies the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the colorado River , considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world....
  • Hohokam Pima National Monument
    Hohokam Pima National Monument

    Preserved at the Hohokam Pima National Monument, also known as Snaketown, is the Snaketown-Settlement, archaeological remains of the Hohokam culture....
     at Coolidge
  • Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
    Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site

    Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site is a meeting ground of two cultures, the Navajo and settlers who came to the area to settle in what is now northeastern Arizona in the late 1800s....
     at Ganado
    Ganado, Arizona

    Ganado is a census-designated place in Apache County, Arizona, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,505 at the United States Census, 2000....
  • Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
    Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

    The Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail is a United States National Historic Trail that runs from Nogales, Arizona, on the U.S.-Mexico border, to San Francisco, California....
  • Lake Mead National Recreation Area
    Lake Mead National Recreation Area

    Lake Mead National Recreation Area is located in southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona. The centerpieces of the National Recreation Area are its two large Reservoir : Lake Mead and Lake Mohave....
  • Montezuma Castle National Monument
    Montezuma Castle National Monument

    Montezuma Castle National Monument, located near Camp Verde, Arizona, in the Southwestern United States, features well-preserved cliff dwellings....
     near Camp Verde
    Camp Verde, Arizona

    Camp Verde is a town in Yavapai County, Arizona, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 10,610....
  • Navajo National Monument
    Navajo National Monument

    Navajo National Monument is located within the northwest portion of the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona.Navajo National Monument preserves three of the most intact cliff dwellings of the ancestral puebloan people ....
     in Black Mesa
    Black Mesa, Arizona

    Black Mesa is an upland area in Navajo County, Arizona. In Navajo language it is called Dzil?jiin and during Mexico rule of Arizona it was called Mesa de las Vacas ....
  • Old Spanish National Historic Trail
  • Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
    Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

    Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a U.S. National Monument and UNESCO biosphere reserve located in extreme southern Arizona which shares a border with the Mexico state of Sonora....
     near Ajo
    Ajo, Arizona

    Ajo is a census-designated place in Pima County, Arizona, Arizona, United States. The population was 3,705 at the United States Census, 2000....
  • Parashant National Monument in northern Arizona
  • Petrified Forest National Park
    Petrified Forest National Park

    Petrified Forest National Park is along Interstate 40 between Holbrook, Arizona and Navajo County, Arizona, in the United States. It features one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, mostly of the species Araucarioxylon arizonicum....
  • Pipe Spring National Monument
    Pipe Spring National Monument

    Pipe Spring National Monument is located in the U.S. state of Arizona, and is rich with Native Americans in the United States, early explorer, and Mormon pioneer history....
     near Fredonia
    Fredonia, Arizona

    Fredonia is a town in Coconino County, Arizona, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 1,051....
  • Saguaro National Park
    Saguaro National Park

    Saguaro National Park, located in the state of Arizona, is part of the United States national park system.Saguaro National Park is divided into two sections, lying approximately 20 miles east and 15 miles west of the center of the city of Tucson, Arizona....
     near Tucson
    Tucson, Arizona

    Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, Arizona, United States, located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix, Arizona and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border....
  • Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument in Flagstaff
    Flagstaff, Arizona

    Flagstaff is a city located in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In July 2006, the city's estimated population was 58,213. The population of the Metropolitan Statistical Area was estimated at 127,450 in 2007....
  • Tonto National Monument
    Tonto National Monument

    Tonto National Monument is a U.S. National Monument in central Arizona, United States. The area lies on the northeastern edge of the Sonoran Desert, which is generally arid land with annual rainfall of about 16 inches here ....
     at Roosevelt
  • Tumacácori National Historical Park
    Tumacácori National Historical Park

    Tumac?cori National Historical Park is located in the upper Santa Cruz River Valley of southern Arizona. The park protects the ruins of three Spanish mission communities, two of which are National Historic Landmark sites, and it also contains the Tumacacori Museum, a historic landmark building built in 1937 that is also a National Historic La...
     at Tumacácori
  • Tuzigoot National Monument
    Tuzigoot National Monument

    Tuzigoot National Monument, near Cottonwood, Arizona, preserves a 2 to 3 story pueblo ruin on the summit of a limestone and sandstone ridge just east of Clarkdale, Arizona, 120 feet above the Verde River floodplain....
     in Clarkdale
    Clarkdale, Arizona

    Clarkdale is a town in Yavapai County, Arizona, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 3,836....
  • Walnut Canyon National Monument
    Walnut Canyon National Monument

    Walnut Canyon National Monument is a United States National Monument located about southeast of downtown Flagstaff, Arizona, just off Interstate 40....
     in Flagstaff
  • Wupatki National Monument
    Wupatki National Monument

    The Wupatki National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in north-central Arizona, near Flagstaff, Arizona. Rich in Native Americans in the United States ruins, the Monument is administered by the National Park Service in close conjunction with the nearby Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument....
     in Flagstaff