Tubac Presidio State Historic Park

Explore this southern Arizona town filled with preserved ruins and other artifacts.

Tubac Presidio State Historic Park is located in southern Arizona off I-19. All guests are welcome to explore the visitor center and admire the Spanish-influenced furnishings and art on display. They also have historic maps, a video presentation, interpretive exhibits, and various artifacts from Native American archaeological and ethnographic collections. Be sure to stop by the 1885 Territorial Schoolhouse, the second oldest schoolhouse in Arizona. Visitors can even sit at one of the desks. Outside, there are eight gardens, including the heritage, heirloom, perennial, ethnobotanical, cacti and succulents, herb, rose, and children's garden.

Visitors also enjoy seeing the Rojas House, a mid-20th-century adobe vernacular row house with original furnishings from Luisa Rojas, a lifelong resident of Tubac. The outside patio exhibits depict how the inhabitants lived, cooked, and worked during Spanish Colonial times. Stop by the gift shop inside the visitor center, they sell various souvenirs, cookbooks, T-shirts, baseball caps, birding books, and wildlife guides. The park is open Wednesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission rates are $7 for anyone 14+, $2 for youth (ages 7-13), and free for children up to six years old. DIscover 2,000 years of remarkable history at the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park.