San Simon Cienega (Arizona)

San Simon Cienega (Arizona)

San Simon, Arizona 85632

Tips for Birding

This eBird hotspot is located on the west side of the Arizona-New Mexico state line. There is a hotspot on the east side of the border in Hildago County, New Mexico, San Simon Cienega (New Mexico),  that may be used for checklists reporting birds seen on that side of the border. Birders who carefully keep their bird records by county and state will want to be aware of the location of the state line in this area.

About this Location

Cienega of San Simon, was a cienega, an area of springs 13 miles up the San Simon River from San Simon Station.

Cienega of San Simon was a camping and watering place on the Southern Emigrant Trail after John Coffee Hays pioneered the Tucson Cutoff route from Cooke’s Wagon Road to the east in the Animas Valley to Tucson via Stein’s Pass to the Cienega, to Apache Pass, to Nugent’s Pass, to the lower crossing of the San Pedro River near Tres Alamos, to rejoin Cooke’s road again at a waterhole, just east of modern Mescal, Arizona. The Cienega was located 5 miles south-southwest of the mouth of Stein’s Pass and 23 miles from Apache Pass. It was used by the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line as a rest and water stop and by later stagecoach lines during the Apache Wars as a safer route than the Butterfield Overland Mail route through the Doubtful Canyon to the north.

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