Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Arizona

  Fort Bowie National Historic Site has wonderful outdoors recreation, so you can have a ball during your stay. A visit to Fort Bowie National Historic Site is a good choice when you have to get out of the house. High temperatures at Fort Bowie National Historic Site during the months of summer are in the 90's. Summer night lows fall down to the 60's. The wintertime brings highs down to the 50's, and night lows through the winter for Fort Bowie National Historic Site tend to be in the 30's. It's a popular place to go to for the inhabitants of Bowie.
    At Fort Bowie National Historic Site you don’t see much rainfall; during the month of August you get the most rain around here, and May is the month with the least moisture. Little Wood Canyon is close to Fort Bowie National Historic Site and is a brilliant spot. You'll need more
than a day to look at everything Fort Bowie National Historic Site has to offer, you can camp at Pinery Canyon Campground. Fort Bowie National Historic Site is a good wilderness area that is popular with folks from far and near.
It's always tremendous to take a look at Little Wood Spring. Rattlesnake Point is an exciting place to stop by while at Fort Bowie National Historic Site, and if you're stopping by from Bowie, you won't be the only one. There is so much amusing stuff to do for everybody.
Fort Bowie National Historic Site has gorgeous nature
 
    At Fort Bowie National Historic Site you don’t see much rainfall; during the month of August you get the most rain around here, and May is the month with the least moisture. Little Wood Canyon is close to Fort Bowie National Historic Site and is a brilliant spot. You'll need more
eventually culminating in the surrender of Geronimo in 1886 and the banishment of the Chiricahuas to Florida and Alabama.

It was the site of the Bascom Affair, a wagon train massacre, and the battle of Apache Pass, where a large force of Chiricahua Apaches under Mangus Colorados and Cochise fought the California Volunteers. The remains of Fort Bowie today are carefully preserved, the adobe walls of various post buildings and the ruins of a Butterfield Stage Station. It stands as a lasting monument to the bravery and endurance of U.S. soldiers in paving

 
the way for westward settlement and the taming of the western frontier. It also serves to give us an understanding of the 'clash of cultures,' one a young emerging nation in pursuit of its 'manifest destiny,' the other a valiant hunter/gatherer society fighting to preserve its existence. Apache resistance was finally crushed at Fort Bowie, and the result was the end of the Indian wars in the United States.

  

CONTACTS

Email - FOBO_Operations@nps.gov

Fax- 520-847-2221

Write to
HCR 2, Box 6500
Willcox, AZ 85643

- or -
P.O. Box 158
Bowie, AZ 85605

Phone
Headquarters - 520-847-2500

TRAVEL BASICS

Operating Hours, Seasons
Visitor Center: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., daily. Closed Christmas Day. Ruins Trail hours are from sunrise to sunset. Peak season is from March until May.

FEES/PERMITS

Entrance Fee
FORT BOWIE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
Free!

FACILITIES

Visitor Centers
FORT BOWIE VISITOR CENTER
Open All Year 8:00 am to 5:00 pm daily


Phone - 520-847-2500
Location - From Willcox drive southeast for 20 miles on State #186 to the Fort Bowie turn off, then drive another eight miles on the unpaved road to the Fort Bowie Trailhead. Be prepared to walk the three miles round trip to the ruins and back to your car. From the town of Bowie, the trailhead is located on Apache Pass Road, 13 miles south. The park is 116 miles east of Tucson via I-10, and 227 miles from Phoenix.
Closures - Closed December 25.
Special Programs - Call for information.
Exhibits - Exhibits on the Butterfield mail route, military life at the fort and Apache history are available.


Available Facilities - A Southwest Parks and Monuments Association bookstore has maps, posters and books about Apache history, the Butterfield mail route, women's history of the 19th century and military history during this period.


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