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Jail Tree


category : Pioneer History
Jail Tree This 200 year-old mesquite tree once served as Wickenburg's Jail. From 1863 to 1890 outlaws were chained to this tree for all the townspeople to see. Whether any escaped remains unknown.


Hours: Outdoor viewing
Address: Tegner and Wickenburg Way

Come visit us in Wickenburg, Arizona

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Historical Walking Tour

The Chamber of Commerce has developed a self-guided brochure of historic town buildings with a map of their locations. Numbered copper plates on the outside of buildings correspond to numbers in the brochure with ten buildings awarded listings on the National Historic Register.

Wickenburg, AZ Tours

Los Caballeros Golf Club

Los Caballeros Golf Club (LCGC) is a top ranking, semi-private golf club set at the foot of the Bradshaw Mountains in the upper Sonoran Dessert. LCGC offers beautiful driving ranges, putting greens, and a short game practice area -- perfect for your next golf vacation. Constructed in 1979

Wickenburg, AZ Golf Courses

Nature Conservancy - Hassayampa River Preserve

A special piece of Arizona's natural environment is being protected and restored at the Hassayampa River Preserve near Wickenburg. For most of its 100

Wickenburg, AZ Conservation Areas

Western Sculpture

"Thanks For The Rain" The life-size bronze sculpture was created by Joe Beeler in 1988

Wickenburg, AZ Arts

Hassayampa Building

The Venetta Hotel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1905 specifically to serve overnight railroad passengers and early day tourists to the Wickenburg area and Castle Hot Springs. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith contracted one of Arizona'

Wickenburg, AZ Historic Hotels

Things to do Pioneer History near Wickenburg, AZ

Vulture Mine

Discovered in 1863 by the Austrian Henry Wickenburg, Vulture Mine was the largest producing gold mine in the history of Arizo...

Tubercular Cabin

The Cave Creek Museum's original Tubercular cabin, one of 16 cabins that made up a local TB camp, was placed on the Nation...

Robson's Mining World

Robson's Arizona Mining World takes you back in time to the Nella-Meda gold mining camp, a real mine said to still contain mu...