Last Updated: May 2, 2026
After a month at a busy RV resort in west Tucson, we were craving wide open spaces — and the Dragoon Mountains of Cochise County delivered exactly that. Southeast of Tucson, this rugged and largely overlooked corner of Arizona surprised us completely. Between the extraordinary granite boulder landscapes, the deep history of Cochise and the Apache Wars, a genuinely quirky guest ranch that doubles as a historic movie location, and some of the best wine we’ve found anywhere in the Southwest, Dragoon and the surrounding area earned a permanent spot on our list of favorite Arizona destinations. From here we headed on to Tombstone — but Dragoon deserves its own story first.
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