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Mule Pass Tunnel

Mule Pass Tunnel

2.26km from Mount Ballard

The Mule Pass tunnel, Believed to be the longest tunnel in Arizona. Locals call it "The Time Tunnel". Mule Pass Tunnel created a new gateway into Bisbee. It also cut 10 minutes off the drive over the 6,030-foot-high pass on US 80 into the southeastern Arizona mining town. The road is now known as State Route 80, and the Highway Department is now the Arizona Department of Transportation.

Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum

Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum

4.26km from Mount Ballard

The Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum is dedicated to preserving and communicating the history of Bisbee, Arizona. This Museum takes you and your family back in time to the days of the Arizona Territory, telling the story of a copper-mining town’s role in the industrialization of America, a history of your grandparents’ generation.

Muheim Heritage House

Muheim Heritage House

4.45km from Mount Ballard

This lovely heritage home museum was built by Joseph and Carmelita Muheim. A National Historic site with Queen Anne architectural influences, the home was enlarged from 1898 through 1915 as the family grew. Docents provide guided tours through the restored interior with its period furnishings. From the gardens you can enjoy an impressive panoramic view of the surrounding mountains and hillside homes on Brewery Gulch.

Queen Mine Tour

Queen Mine Tour

4.46km from Mount Ballard

The Copper Queen Mine was a copper mine in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. Its development led to the growth of the surrounding town of Bisbee in the 1880s. Its orebody ran 23% copper, an extraordinarily high grade. It has seven levels with 143 miles of passageways. The Mine has natural ventilation due to the many shafts and drifts. The average temperature is 47 degrees, so visitors are advised to bring a warm sweater or jacket.

Lavender Pit

Lavender Pit

5.65km from Mount Ballard

The Lavender Pit is a former open pit copper mine near Bisbee in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. It is located near the famous Copper Queen Mine.Because of the competent host rock, this pit has much steeper sides than other open pit copper mines in the southwest area. The pit covers an area of 300 acre and is 900 feet deep. Large tonnages of dump rock are placed around Bisbee, notably north of the residential district of Warren and other parts of the southeastern Mule Mountains area.

Lehner Mammoth Kill Site

Lehner Mammoth Kill Site

14.96km from Mount Ballard

The Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site is a location in southern Arizona that is significant for its association with evidence that mammoths were killed here by Paleo-Indians 9000 years BCE. In 1952, Ed Lehner discovered extinct mammoth bone fragments on his ranch, at the locality now known as the Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site.

Murray Springs Clovis Site

Murray Springs Clovis Site

25.42km from Mount Ballard

Murray Springs is located in southern Arizona near the San Pedro River and once served as a Clovis hunting camp approximately 9000 years BCE. The site is unique for the massive quantity of large megafauna processing and extensive tool making. Archaeologists identified five buried animal kills and processing locations and a Clovis camp location. The site is located in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, administered by the Bureau of Land Management.

Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area

Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area

26.49km from Mount Ballard

The Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area lies within the Chihuahuan desert grassland habitat type. Typically thought of as a major roost site for Sandhill Crane, Whitewater Draw offers excellent waterfowling as well. During wet years numerous waterfowl can be found in and around this Wildlife Area. There is a seasonal closure on hunting during the Crane hunt, which typically falls in November-early December.

Bureau of Land Management San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area Administrative Office

The San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area contains almost 57,000 acres of public land in Cochise County, Arizona, between the international border and St. David, Arizona. The primary purpose for the special designation is to protect and enhance the desert riparian ecosystem, a rare remnant of what was once an extensive network of similar riparian systems throughout the American Southwest.

Coronado National Memorial

Coronado National Memorial

29.99km from Mount Ballard

The Coronado National Memorial commemorates the first organized expedition into the Southwest by conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540. The memorial is located in a natural setting on the Mexico–United States border on the southeast flank of the Huachuca Mountains south of Sierra Vista, Arizona and is bordered to the north and west by Coronado National Forest. Within the memorial is an overlook at Montezuma Pass where the Coronado expedition entered modern Arizona.

Coronado Cave Trail

Coronado Cave Trail

30.36km from Mount Ballard

The Cave Trail climbs 400 feet over half a mile to the entrance of a 600 foot-long limestone cavern, overlooking a minor ravine on the south side of Montezuma Peak, part of an area that was added to Coronado National Memorial after a boundary expansion in 1978. The cave interior extends 600 feet in length, with 20 foot high ceilings. Those planning to explore the limestone cave should bring at least two sources of light per person.

Coronado Cave

Coronado Cave

30.42km from Mount Ballard

Coronado cave is one of the few open, undeveloped caves in southern Arizona. The cave is a large cavern 600 feet long and in most places about 70 feet wide.The cave is located ~ .25 mile west of the visitor center on the north side of the road is the parking area for the trail. It became part of Coronado National Memorial in 1978, when the park expanded its boundaries. The cave may have been used by humans as a shelter and hideout by middle archaic people.

Good Enough Mine Tour

Good Enough Mine Tour

31.47km from Mount Ballard

A 45-minute tour underground in the real silver mine. Good Enough Trolley is a 40 Minute tour of Tombstones history including the town, mining district and both cemeteries. The Goodenough Mine was Tombstone’s major silver producer. Take the tour and learn how the miners worked, see what silver ore looks like, and experience what it’s like to go underground in a perfectly preserved underground historic hard rock mine.

The Bird Cage Theatre

The Bird Cage Theatre

31.5km from Mount Ballard

The Bird Cage Theatre was a theater in Tombstone, Arizona. It operated intermittently from December 1881 to 1894. When the silver mines closed, the theatre was also closed in 1892. It was leased as a coffee shop starting in 1934.

Rose Tree Museum

Rose Tree Museum

31.58km from Mount Ballard

The Rose tree museum in the famous wild west town of Tombstone, Arizona displays a fine collection of historic artifacts and materials, but the real attraction is the backyard rose bush which is the largest in the world. Experience the beauty of the World's Largest Rose Tree by either staying in one of the suites or visiting the museum dedicated to one of Tombstone's oldest families. Planted in 1885 with cuttings from a”Lady Banksia Rose” that had been sent from Scotland.

The Tombstone Epitaph

The Tombstone Epitaph

31.63km from Mount Ballard

The Tombstone Epitaph is a Tombstone, Arizona monthly publication that covers the history and culture of the Old West. Founded in January 1880, The Epitaph is the oldest continually published newspaper in Arizona. It long has been noted for its coverage of the infamous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on Oct. 26, 1881, and its continuing research interest in Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and their outlaw adversaries the Cochise County Cowboys.

Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park

Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park is a state park of Arizona in the United States. Located in Tombstone, the park preserves the original Cochise County courthouse. The two-story building, constructed in 1882 in the Victorian style, is laid out in the shape of a cross and once contained various county offices, including those of the sheriff, recorder, treasurer, and the Board of Supervisors as well as courtrooms and a jail.

Silver Strike Winery

Silver Strike Winery

31.67km from Mount Ballard

Silver Strike is a family owned, fully operating winery, with all our wines produced on-site with grapes from their own sustainably grown vineyard as well as locally harvested varietals.

Schieffelin Hall

Schieffelin Hall

31.74km from Mount Ballard

Schieffelin Hall is a building from the American Old West in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, the largest standing adobe structure still existent in the United States southwest. It was built in 1881 by Albert Schieffelin, brother of Tombstone founder Ed Schieffelin, and William Harwood as a first class opera house, theater, recital hall, and a meeting place for Tombstone citizens.

Veteran's Memorial Park

Veteran's Memorial Park

31.87km from Mount Ballard

A beautiful riverfront park in Bullhead City is the setting for the Arizona Veterans Memorial, dedicated in the memory of more than 3,000 military men and women from the State of Arizona who were killed during wars and armed conflicts over the past 100 years. The largest portion of the memorial overlooks the Colorado River and contains a line of giant flagpoles paralleling a curved wall standing nine feet high and 40 feet wide.

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Mount Ballard

Mount Ballard

Mt Ballard, Arizona 85603, USA

Mount Ballard, is located in Cochise County, Arizona. The mountain is less than 5 miles from Bisbee, Arizona and is the highest mountain in the Mule mountain range. It is one of the iconic attraction in this area and also there are so many things to see and do.