Nearby Parks The West’s Wildest Mining Town Park Rules If you’re having a great time here, don’t forget Tombstone owes its beginnings to Ed General Rules to visit one of the two nearby state parks! Schieffelin, who prospected the nearby hills • Do not litter! “Leave no trace” and pack Kartchner Caverns State Park (29-miles) in 1877. Friends warned him that all he would out what you bring in, or use the trash “Arizona’s Best Attraction” as voted by USA TOMBSTONE find would be his tombstone. But instead of receptacles provided in the park. Today’s 2017 reader’s poll, this hidden jewel a Chiricahua Apache bullet, he found silver – • Drive your vehicle only on designated features cave formations found nowhere COURTHOUSE ledges of it – and the rush was on. paved surfaces. Park only in designated else in the world. Take the Throne Room tour STATE HISTORIC PARK Tombstone Attractions parking areas. Do not park on the side of the road. and see the five-story formation Kubla Khan! Boothill Cemetery: Laid out in 1879 by the (520) 586-4100 • Stay on designated trails. Cutting trails Tombstone Townsite Company, this original degrades habitat and harms the landscape. Patagonia Lake State Park/Sonoita Creek graveyard is just off Hwy 80 West, where many • Do not use glass containers in the park. State Natural Area (61-miles) Tucked away of Tombstone’s earliest pioneers were laid to • All of our parks adhere to firearm and in the rolling hills of southeastern Arizona is a rest. The name Boot Hill comes from the fact hunting regulations. Please familiarize hidden treasure. This is an ideal place to find that many of these graves were filled with yourself with this information. whitetail deer roaming the hills and great blue people that died suddenly or violently with herons walking the shoreline. The park offers a their boots on! Some two hundred fifty known Pets campground, beach, picnic area with ramadas, people were buried in Boot Hill, before it • Please keep non-service animals out of tables and grills, a creek trail, boat ramps, and officially closed its doors in 1884. Today, Boot park buildings. a marina. (520) 287-6965 Hill is a favorite stop for Tombstone toursts. It’s • Keep your pets on a maximum six-foot located on Hwy 80 in Tombstone, AZ. leash at all times. Pets must be attended at all times. O.K. Corral and Historama: World-famous • Pick up after your pet. site of the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral® • For additional information related to pets, 09/20 in Tombstone, AZ. Enjoy daily reenactments visit our website or ask park staff. of the famous Gunfight at 2 pm, with Wyatt Step into the past at Tombstone Courthouse Earp and Doc Holliday. Life-sized animated The rules of this park are not State Historic Park. Built in the shape of a figures of the gunfighters are located on the limited to the rules listed above. Roman cross, the two-story 1882 Victorian very spot where the Gunfight began. Visit Additional park rules may be found at structure once housed the Cochise County our four museums. See Doc Holliday’s room azstateparks.com. offices of the sheriff, recorder, treasurer, and admire over 100 of C.S. Fly’s photos of Museum and Exhibits the jail, courtrooms, and the board of 1880s Tombstone and the Apache Geronimo. supervisors. Today, the old county courthouse The museum in the courthouse has interpretive Actor Vincent Price tells Tombstone’s story exhibits on the history of Tombstone and is a 12,000 square-foot museum filled with the in Tombstone’s Historama. Handicapped memorabilia of those who tamed the territory. Cochise County, including a period sheriff’s accessible. Admission. Kids under 6 free. office, artist drawings and interpretations of Huge rooms inside the old courthouse feature Crystal Palace Saloon: Originally known the gunfight at the OK Corral, Wyatt Earp, exhibits chronicling Tombstone’s colorful as the Golden Eagle Brewing Company, this mining exhibit area, saloon and gaming room, frontier history, from Geronimo and the silver establishment was one of early Tombstone’s and courtroom, ranching, and residents of mining days to the O.K. Corral gun battle, and first saloons. It occupied just a small lot of about Tombstone. the stories of Tombstone’s unique but no less 50 by 30 feet while the brewery was in another Outside in the courtyard is a reproduction of Established 1957 notorious citizens. structure to the rear. Named after its builder, the gallows, the site where seven convicted Tombstone Courthouse Thank you for visiting! Benjamin Wehrfritz, the Wehrfritz Building murderers met their fate. State Historic Park was expanded by adding a second story to 233 Toughnut St Tombstone, AZ 85638 house the offices for such notables as U.S. Tours (520) 457-3311 | 1-877-MYPARKS Deputy Marshal Virgil Earp, attorney George We offer a self-guided tour that allows you to azstateparks.com/tombstone W. Berry, and Dr. George E. Goodfellow. It is become immersed in Tombstone’s sometimes AZStateParks even known that “Buckskin” Frank Leslie was a rowdy and lawless past. You can also request Like/Follow/Watch us on: 1-877-MYPARKS | azstateparks.com night watchman here for a short time. guided tours of the facility for an additional fee. ALAMO LAKE

BOYCE THOMPSON ARBORETUM

BUCKSKIN MOUNTAIN

CATALINA

CATTAIL COVE

COLORADO RIVER STATE HISTORIC PARK

DANKWORTH POND

DEAD HORSE RANCH

FOOL HOLLOW LAKE RECREATION AREA

FORT VERDE STATE HISTORIC PARK

HAVASU RIVIERA

GRANITE MOUNTAIN HOTSHOTS MEMORIAL STATE PARK

HOMOLOVI

JEROME STATE HISTORIC PARK

KARTCHNER CAVERNS®

LAKE HAVASU

LOST DUTCHMAN

LYMAN LAKE

McFARLAND STATE HISTORIC PARK

ORACLE

PATAGONIA LAKE

PICACHO PEAK

RED ROCK

RIORDAN MANSION STATE HISTORIC PARK

RIVER ISLAND

ROCKIN’ RIVER RANCH

ROPER LAKE

SAN RAFAEL STATE NATURAL AREA

SLIDE ROCK

SONOITA CREEK STATE NATURAL AREA

TOMBSTONE COURTHOUSE East Front Yard Park STATE HISTORIC PARK Sheriff’s Office Store Take a look at just a few of our exhibits! East EastFront Front Yard Yard SherifSheriff’s f’s ParkPark Store TONTO NATURAL BRIDGE OfficeOffice Store Frontier Room Entertainment West Front Yard Room FrontierFrontier RoomO.K. TUBAC PRESIDIO Room Corral EntertainmentEntertainment STATE HISTORIC PARK Room WestW Frontest Front Yard Yard Exhibit Room Exhibit O.K. O.K. CorralCorral Our newest exhibit is our Josephine ExhibitExhibit VERDE RIVER GREENWAYExhibit Women Earp collection, whichSTATE includes NATURAL photos AREA Exhibit and documents about the Earps. East Side Yard with Exhibits Women Men Women Gallows East EastSide SideYard Yard YUMA TERRITORIAL PRISON with withExhibits Exhibits STATE HISTORIC PARK Men Men GallowsGallows

Mining, Courtyard Transportation, & Communication Exhibits Mining,Mining, Transportation, CourtyardCourtyard Transportation, The Gallows is one of our most popular & Communication& Communication exhibits, where frontier justice was ExhibitsExhibits dealt to criminals. We appreciate your interest in our exhibit but there is no access to the gallows platform. 1st Floor

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Pioneer Room

PioneerPioneer Room Room Fire Exhibit You can see all kinds of historic photos, artifacts, and memorabilia from the FireCattlemenFire state’s rich mining past. Photography ExhibitExhibitRoom

Cattlemen PhotographyPost Office Cattlemen Photography RoomRoom Law Library Personalities Post Office ExhibitPost Office Law Law Library Library PersonalitiesPersonalities ExhibitExhibit

Courtroom Learn about Arizona’s ranching history in the Cattlemen’s Room, with saddles and historic cowhand tools. CourtroomCourtroom

2nd Floor Justice was administered here for Cochise County form 1882 to 1929. 2nd2nd Floor Floor