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Tuzigoot National Monument

Tuzigoot National Monument

1.97km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

It preserves a 2- to 3-story pueblo ruin on the summit of a limestone and sandstone ridge just east of Clarkdale, Arizona. is an elongated complex of stone masonry rooms that were built along the spine of a natural outcrop in the Verde Valley. it has around 110 rooms and it administers 58 acres.

Verde Canyon Railroad

Verde Canyon Railroad

4.29km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

This is a heritage railroad running between Clarkdale and Perkinsville in the U.S. state of Arizona. The passenger excursion line operates on 20 miles of tracks of the Clarkdale Arizona Central Railroad a shortline. The Verde Canyon Railroad has its depot, headquarters, and a railway museum in Clarkdale, about 25 miles southwest of Sedona.

Jerome State Historic Park

Jerome State Historic Park

8.37km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Jerome State Historic Park is a state park of Arizona, US, featuring the Douglas Mansion, built in 1916 by a family of influential mining entrepreneurs in Jerome, Arizona, a mining region in the northeast of the Black Hills, east Yavapai County. A museum is located in the old Douglas Mansion.

Mingus Mountain

Mingus Mountain

11.81km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

It is a mountain located in the U.S. state of Arizona in the Black Hills mountain range. It is located within the Prescott National Forest traversed by State Route 89A approximately midway between Cottonwood and Prescott. There is a complex of the fire tower and associated buildings at the top of the mountain and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sycamore Canyon

Sycamore Canyon

13.31km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Sycamore Canyon Wilderness is a 56,000-acre wilderness area in the Coconino, Kaibab and Prescott national forests in the U.S. state of Arizona. The canyon is one of several in Arizona that cut through the Mogollon Rim. Relevant United States Geological Survey map quadrangles are Davenport Hill, White Horse Lake, May Tank Pocket, Perkinsville, Sycamore Basin, and Clarkdale. Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness borders Sycamore Canyon Wilderness on the east.

Red Rock State Park

Red Rock State Park

18.54km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Red Rock State Park is a state park of Arizona, USA, featuring a red sandstone canyon outside the city of Sedona. The main mission of this day-use park is the preservation of the riparian habitat along Oak Creek. Red Rock State Park serves as an environmental education facility for the public and for school or private groups, and provides limited passive recreational opportunities.

Palatki Heritage Site

Palatki Heritage Site

21.12km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

The Palatki Heritage Site is an archaeological site and park located in the Coconino National Forest, near Sedona, in Arizona, United States. In the Hopi language, Palatki means 'red house'. It has a set of ancient cliff dwellings in the red sandstone cliffs, built from 1100 to 1400 CE by the Sinagua people of the Ancestral Puebloans.

Honanki Heritage Site

Honanki Heritage Site

21.93km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

The Honanki Heritage Site is a cliff dwelling and rock art site located in the Coconino National Forest, about 15 miles west of Sedona, Arizona. The Sinagua people of the Ancestral Puebloans, and ancestors of the Hopi people, lived here from about 1100 to 1300 AD. The Palatki Heritage Site is nearby, also in the Coconino National Forest.

Cathedral Rock

Cathedral Rock

22.01km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Cathedral Rock is a natural sandstone butte on the Sedona skyline and one of the most-photographed sights in Arizona. The rock formation is located in the Coconino National Forest in Yavapai County. This trail is a popular short, steep ascent from the Back O' Beyond trailhead to the saddle points or "gaps" in Cathedral Rock

Montezuma Castle National Monument

Montezuma Castle National Monument

23km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Montezuma Castle National Monument protects a set of well-preserved dwellings located in Camp Verde, Arizona which was built and used by the Sinagua people, a pre-Colombian culture closely related to the Hohokam and other indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States.

Dry Creek Trailhead

Dry Creek Trailhead

23.79km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Dry Creek Trailhead provides access to the one-mile Dry Creek Trail running through grasslands east of Boulder, and attracts many dog walkers. ITs purpose is to serve the people as a multi-use bicycle/pedestrian trailhead and rest area. It was designed to provide access to the regional trail system and offer an opportunity to rest after using the trail. This site saves and replenishes groundwater, tells the agricultural and water history of the area.

Bell Rock

Bell Rock

23.89km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Bell Rock is a popular landmark and tourist attraction just north of the Village of Oak Creek, Arizona, south of Sedona in Yavapai County. With an elevation at its summit of 4,919 feet. People claim that Bell Rock is a "vortex" making it a popular tourist destination and place of meditation.

Chapel of the Holy Cross

Chapel of the Holy Cross

24.74km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

The Chapel of the Holy Cross was built in 1956. The chapel was inspired and commissioned by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, sculptor Marguerite Brunswig Staude, who worked with project architect Richard Hein and architect August K. Strotz to complete this noteworthy and award-winning chapel.

Courthouse Butte

Courthouse Butte

24.85km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Courthouse Butte is a butte just north of the Village of Oak Creek, Arizona, south of Sedona in Yavapai County. Summit elevation is 5,454 feet. Geologically, Courthouse Butte is composed of horizontally bedded sedimentary rock of the Permian Supai Formation.

Devil's Bridge Trailhead

Devil's Bridge Trailhead

25.17km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Devil’s Bridge Sedona is one of the most popular places to hike and photograph in the area, and no trip to Sedona would be complete without at least one visit to this magnificent place. The first portion of the trail takes you through some beautiful stands of juniper and prickly pear cactus. From there, the elevation quickly starts to climb, growing steeper as you go until the final climb which is quite steep.

Montezuma Well

Montezuma Well

26.99km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Montezuma well is a detached unit of Montezuma Castle National Monument. It is a natural limestone sinkhole near the town of Lake Montezuma, Arizona, through which some 1,500,000 US gallons of water emerge each day from an underground spring.

V Bar V Heritage Site

V Bar V Heritage Site

29.32km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

This is the largest known petroglyph site in the Verde Valley of central Arizona, and one of the best-preserved. The rock art site consists of 1,032 petroglyphs in 13 panels. Acquired by the Coconino National Forest in 1994, the site is protected and kept open to the public by the US Forest Service.

Oak Creek Canyon

Oak Creek Canyon

32.92km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona, Arizona is one of the most beautiful spots in the state. Here is where people come to interact with Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona, Arizona is one of the most beautiful spots in the state. Here is where people come to interact with nature and its wonders, and where people come to get away from the busy city life with the goal of ultimate relaxation. The canyon is often described as a smaller cousin of the Grand Canyon because of its scenic beauty.and its wonders, and wher

Watson Lake

Watson Lake

40.78km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Watson Lake is one of two reservoirs at the Granite Dells, in Prescott, Arizona, that was formed in the early 1900s when the Chino Valley Irrigation District built a dam on Granite Creek. The City of Prescott bought the reservoir and surrounding land in 1997 to preserve it as recreational land. Local rockclimbers use the granite cliffs above and adjacent to the lake for top-roping and lead climbing.

Lynx Lake

Lynx Lake

42.33km from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Lynx Lake, Arizona, is a 55-acre reservoir located within Prescott National Forest. It is one of the most popular recreation areas in central Arizona. Mild weather, the cool ponderosa pine forest, trout fishing, boating, mountain hiking, horseback riding, archaeological sites, and bird watching attract visitors from throughout Arizona.

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Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Dead Horse Ranch State Park

675 Dead Horse Ranch Rd, Cottonwood, AZ 86326, USA

Dead Horse Ranch State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, on the Verde River in an area known as the Verde River Greenway which covers 423 acres. It also offers trailhead access to the Dead Horse Trail System, located on adjacent Coconino National Forest land. The ranch was originally named by the Ireys family, who sold the land to the state of Arizona to become a state park.