Bisbee, Arizona - The Copper Queen

cwhite · #1 Posted **May 19, 2015, 9:46 PM**

Spent the weekend in Southern Arizona, spending the night in Tucson and exploring Bisbee the next day.

Bisbee is in the far southeastern corner of Arizona, about 90 miles southeast of Tucson, and a few miles north of the Mexican border. Its history dates back to the 1880s with the Copper Queen Mine - one of the most successful copper mining operations in American history. Freeport-McMoRan still maintains mining operations in the area, and Bisbee has become a haven for artists and retirees. The town is home to about 5,000 people, these days.

Pictures are nothing special, but I'm not sure Bisbee has ever been posted on here. So, enjoy!

The Lavender Pit - part of the Copper Queen mining complex:

Now to head back to Tucson!

The towns of Naco, Arizona and Naco, Sonora in the distance - the brown line running through town is the border fence:

Border Patrol checkpoint! One of three encountered that day:

Time to grab dinner in Tucson and then book it back to Phoenix! Made it home by 9PM. Thanks for looking, everyone!

PHX31 · #2 Posted **May 19, 2015, 9:50 PM**

Awesome! I was shocked when I saw Bisbee at the top of the My City Photos section. It's such a cool little historic mountain mining town with a great little "downtown". I've been meaning to get back there for years.

Thanks for posting!

Beedok · #3 Posted **May 19, 2015, 11:11 PM**

That's a very unique looking little city.

SignalHillHiker · #4 Posted **May 20, 2015, 12:04 AM**

Beautiful place! :-)

BrickJunkie · #5 Posted **May 20, 2015, 2:03 AM**

Cool set, thanks for posting. Kim Basinger's character in L.A. Confidential is supposed to come from Bisbee, and I've always wondered what the place actually looked like.

xzmattzx · #6 Posted **May 20, 2015, 3:12 AM**

Nice pictures! It's good to see another corner of Arizona on here. Bisbee looks like a cross between a stuck-in-time 1800s mining town, and a little Mexican town with no orderliness to the streets and houses climbing up the hillsides. But, that is what you would expect from a mining town near Mexico that hasn't grown much in 100 years.

Jeff · #7 Posted **May 20, 2015, 3:56 AM**

ahhh cool town! kinda reminds me of deadwood, SD. thanks for the tour

ColDayMan · #8 Posted **May 20, 2015, 5:14 AM**

Bisbee is great. Thanks!

Architype · #9 Posted **May 20, 2015, 8:19 AM**

What a fun looking place, must be cool to visit.

Metro-One · #10 Posted **May 23, 2015, 5:59 AM**

Great pics of a really cool looking place!

I love the desert and hope to visit the area one day.

Thundertubs · #11 Posted **May 25, 2015, 8:23 PM**

Arizona has some neat old mining towns. Jerome is another.

mrnyc · #12 Posted **May 26, 2015, 1:30 PM**

very cool to see -- i might be out that way this summer. we'll see. thanks!

Leo the Dog · #13 Posted **May 26, 2015, 1:47 PM**

This is a cool photo thread. I think this is the first post of Naco, AZ/Sonora.

About 20 years ago I went on a mine tour in Bisbee. Looks like not one thing has changed (and that's a good thing!)

martm · #14 Posted **May 29, 2015, 9:05 AM**

This is just pure excellence!