Description: The Cottonwood Wash Ruins are located on Tribal Land north of Holbrook, Arizona. For the first ruin it looks on Google Earth like there might be some ruins on the hillside above the waypoint for ruin 1. For ruin 2 it is hard to make anything out but it is less than 500 feet off the road to find out.
Directions: To get to the Cottonwood Wash Ruin 1, take I-40 Exit 292 and drive north on AZ-77 for 18.4 miles. Turn left onto Indian Route 9860. Continue for 8.4 miles and make a sharp left. After another half mile continue straight and in 0.4 miles keep left. In another 6.4 miles turn left onto Indian Route 9857 and after 1.7 more miles take a slight right and park after another half mile. For turn-by-turn directions enter 35.17593, -110.22638 into your driving app.
Included with this post is the GPS file and map that we plan to use for our first visit. If you don't want to wait for us to get around to it feel free to try the GPS file and map for yourself. With no guarantee, of course, but they most often prove valuable for us.
Download GPS planning file:
