Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Arizona

  Fort Bowie National Historic Site has a great quantity of natural attractiveness; it's a site that everyone enjoys. A perfect location to pop by in the vicinity of Fort Bowie National Historic Site is Little Wood Canyon It's always splendid to visit Little Wood Spring. There is splendid outdoors recreation at Fort Bowie National Historic Site, so you can have heaps of fun. During your trip to Fort Bowie National Historic Site you'll meet some folks from Bowie for sure.
Fun activities are abundant; there's always something to satisfy everyone. Rattlesnake
    Point is an exciting place to check out while at Fort Bowie National Historic Site, and camping is available at Pinery Canyon Campground. Fort Bowie National Historic Site is a great site for a visit when you've gotta get out.
All through the months of summer highs here at
Fort Bowie National Historic Site reach the 90's while night lows are mostly in the 60's. Through the winter highs are in the 50's with temperatures at Fort Bowie National Historic Site dipping down into the 30's all through winter nights. It's a popular place to get away to for the populace of Bowie. Fort Bowie National Historic Site has gorgeous nature scenery for your viewing satisfaction.
At Fort Bowie National Historic Site you don’t see much precipitation; the month with most of the rain is August, and May on the other hand is the driest.

Fort

 
    Point is an exciting place to check out while at Fort Bowie National Historic Site, and camping is available at Pinery Canyon Campground. Fort Bowie National Historic Site is a great site for a visit when you've gotta get out.
All through the months of summer highs here at
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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