Places to see at Sierra Vista, Arizona

Best Places to visit in Sierra Vista, Arizona - Best Things to do in Sierra Vista, AZ
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Fort Huachuca 2.96 7
Other, Unclassified Objects, Interesting Places, Historic Object

Fort Huachuca is a United States Army installation, established on 3 March 1877 as Camp Huachuca. The garrison is now under the command of the United States Army Installation Management Command. It is in Cochise County in southeast Arizona, approximately 15 miles (24\u00a0km) north of the border with Mexico and at the northern end of the Huachuca Mountains, adjacent to the town of Sierra Vista. From 1913 to 1933, the fort was the base for the \"Buffalo Soldiers\" of the 10th Cavalry Regiment. During the build-up of World War II, the fort had quarters for more than 25,000 male soldiers and hundreds of WACs. In the 2010 census, Fort Huachuca had a population of about 6,500 active duty soldiers, 7,400 military family members, and 5,000 civilian employees. Fort Huachuca has over 18,000 people on post during weekday work hours.

The major tenant units are the United States Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) and the United States Army Intelligence Center. Libby Army Airfield is on post and shares its runway with Sierra Vista Municipal Airport. It was an alternate but never used landing location for the Space Shuttle. Fort Huachuca is the headquarters of Army Military Auxiliary Radio System. Other units include the Joint Interoperability Test Command, the Information Systems Engineering Command, the Electronic Proving Ground (USAEPG), and the Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Directorate.

The fort has a radar-equipped aerostat (Tethered Aerostat Radar System), one of a series maintained for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) by Harris Corporation. The aerostat is northeast of Garden Canyon and supports the DEA drug interdiction mission by detecting low-flying aircraft attempting to enter the United States from Mexico. Fort Huachuca contains the Western Division of the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center which is based at the 139th Airlift Wing, Rosecrans Air National Guard Base in Saint Joseph, Missouri.

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Fort Huachuca 2.96 7
Other, Unclassified Objects, Interesting Places, Historic Object

Fort Huachuca is a United States Army installation, established on 3 March 1877 as Camp Huachuca. The garrison is now under the command of the United States Army Installation Management Command. It is in Cochise County in southeast Arizona, approximately 15 miles (24\u00a0km) north of the border with Mexico and at the northern end of the Huachuca Mountains, adjacent to the town of Sierra Vista. From 1913 to 1933, the fort was the base for the \"Buffalo Soldiers\" of the 10th Cavalry Regiment. During the build-up of World War II, the fort had quarters for more than 25,000 male soldiers and hundreds of WACs. In the 2010 census, Fort Huachuca had a population of about 6,500 active duty soldiers, 7,400 military family members, and 5,000 civilian employees. Fort Huachuca has over 18,000 people on post during weekday work hours.

The major tenant units are the United States Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) and the United States Army Intelligence Center. Libby Army Airfield is on post and shares its runway with Sierra Vista Municipal Airport. It was an alternate but never used landing location for the Space Shuttle. Fort Huachuca is the headquarters of Army Military Auxiliary Radio System. Other units include the Joint Interoperability Test Command, the Information Systems Engineering Command, the Electronic Proving Ground (USAEPG), and the Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Directorate.

The fort has a radar-equipped aerostat (Tethered Aerostat Radar System), one of a series maintained for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) by Harris Corporation. The aerostat is northeast of Garden Canyon and supports the DEA drug interdiction mission by detecting low-flying aircraft attempting to enter the United States from Mexico. Fort Huachuca contains the Western Division of the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center which is based at the 139th Airlift Wing, Rosecrans Air National Guard Base in Saint Joseph, Missouri.

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Sierra Family Drive-In 0.13 1
Architecture, Historic Architecture, Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places, Destroyed Objects

The Ford Sierra is a mid-size car or large family car manufactured and marketed by Ford Europe from 1982-1993, designed by Uwe Bahnsen, Robert Lutz and Patrick le Qu\u00e9ment \u2014 and noted for its aerodynamic styling producing a drag coefficient of 0.34, a significant improvement over its predecessors.

The Sierra debuted at the 1982 British International Motor Show in Birmingham, shortly followed by the 1982 Paris Salon de l'Automobile. Sales began on 15 October 1982, replacing the Ford Taunus TC3 (UK: Ford Cortina Mark V). Its aerodynamic styling and the absence of a saloon/sedan configuration was such that many conservative buyers (including company car drivers) did not prefer its design. A saloon/sedan model debuted in 1987 with the introduction of the facelifted Sierra.

Designated internally under the \"Project Toni\" code name, the nameplate Sierra derived from the Spanish word for mountain range. The car was primarily manufactured in Belgium, and the United Kingdom, although Sierras were also assembled in Cork, Ireland, Argentina, Venezuela, South Africa and New Zealand.

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R & M Cinema 0.29 1
Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places

Madras Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan Vasudevan was an Indian actor who was active in Tamil cinema and theatre during the latter half of the 20th century. He was known for playing negative roles, but he was also a successful character actor. He acted in over 75 movies in Tamil. He is the eldest son of yesteryear actor M. R. Radha, father of Vasu Vikram and half-brother of Radha Ravi, Raadhika and Nirosha.

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Calvary's Rock Church 0.37 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Old Gate Theater 0.39 1
Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places

Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, and Joseph Cotten. Loosely based on the Johnson County War, it revolves around a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s.

Cimino's follow-up to his critically acclaimed film The Deer Hunter (1978), the film's production faced numerous setbacks, including cost overruns, significant retakes, bad press (including allegations of animal abuse on set), and rumors about Cimino's allegedly authoritarian directorial style. Cimino had an expensive and ambitious vision for the film, pushing the film nearly four times over its planned budget.

After its premiere in November 1980, the film received significant critical backlash, prompting United Artists to pull it from theaters. In April 1981, a truncated re-cut version of the film was released, though it remained a financial failure, earning only $3.5 million against its $44 million budget, and was subsequently condemned as one of the worst films ever made. According to some film historians, such as Peter Biskind, the film's financial failure resulted in the demise of director-driven film production in the American film industry, steering back toward greater studio control of films.

In the decades since the release, however, general assessment of Heaven's Gate has become more favorable. The 1981 re-edit has been characterized as \"one of the greatest injustices of cinematic history\", while later re-edits have received critical acclaim. In 2015, BBC Culture ranked Heaven's Gate 98th on its list of the 100 greatest American films of all time.

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Geronimo Drive-In 0.39 1
Architecture, Historic Architecture, Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places, Destroyed Objects

Geronimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaa\u0142\u00e9, Athabaskan pronunciation:\u00a0[k\u00f2j\u00e0\u02d0\u026c\u025b\u0301], lit.\u2009'the one who yawns'; June 16, 1829 \u2013 February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache bands\u00a0\u2013 the Tchihende, the Tsokanende (called Chiricahua by Americans) and the Nednhi\u00a0\u2013 to carry out numerous raids, as well as fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona.

Geronimo's raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the Apache\u2013United States conflict, which started with the American invasion of Apache lands following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848. Reservation life was confining to the free-moving Apache people, and they resented restrictions on their customary way of life. Geronimo led breakouts from the reservations in attempts to return his people to their previous nomadic lifestyle. During Geronimo's final period of conflict from 1876 to 1886, he surrendered three times and eventually accepted life on the Apache reservations. While well-known, Geronimo was not a chief of the Bedonkohe band of the Central Apache but a shaman, as was Nokay-doklini among the Western Apache. However, since he was a superb leader in raiding and warfare, he frequently led large numbers of 30 to 50 Apache men.

In 1886, after an intense pursuit in northern Mexico by American forces that followed Geronimo's third 1885 reservation breakout, Geronimo surrendered for the last time to Lt. Charles Bare Gatewood. Geronimo and 27 other Apaches were later sent to join the rest of the Chiricahua tribe, which had been previously exiled to Florida. While holding him as a prisoner, the United States capitalized on Geronimo\u2019s fame among non-Indians by displaying him at various fairs and exhibitions. In 1898, for example, Geronimo was exhibited at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska; seven years later, the Indian Office provided Geronimo for use in a parade at the second inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt. He died at the Fort Sill hospital in 1909, as a prisoner of war, and was buried at the Fort Sill Indian Agency Cemetery, among the graves of relatives and other Apache prisoners of war.

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Fry Cemetery 0.48 1
Cemeteries, Historic, Burial Places, Interesting Places

Saint Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church 0.62 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Calvary Chapel 0.83 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Bethel Church 0.83 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Shiloh Christian Center 0.87 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Sierra Vista First Church of God In Christ 0.96 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Sierra Vista First Church of God in Christ 0.96 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Southern Arizona Veterans' Memorial Cemetery 1.02 1
Cemeteries, Historic, Burial Places, Interesting Places

Sierra Vista Evangelical Lutheran Church 1.09 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Cochise County Law Enforcement Memorial 1.69 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Cultural, Urban Environment, Interesting Places, Sculptures, Monuments

Sierra Vista Church of Christ 1.79 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Veterans Memorial Park 1.88 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Saint Stephens Episcopal Church 1.97 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Seed of Abraham Christian Center International 2.04 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Sierra Vista Church of the Nazarene 2.13 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Kingdom Hall 2.35 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Village Meadows Baptist Church 2.4 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Sierra Vista United Church of Christ 2.57 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Cinemark 10 2.9 1
Cultural, Cinemas, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places

Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (stylized as CineMark from 1998 to 2022 and CINEMARK since 2022) is an American movie theater chain that started operations in 1984 and since then it has operated theaters with hundreds of locations throughout the Americas and in Central America. It is headquartered in Plano, Texas, in the Dallas\u2013Fort Worth area. Cinemark is a leader in the theatrical exhibition industry with 521 theatres and 5,855 screens in the U.S. and Latin America as of June 30, 2022. It is the largest movie theatre chain in Brazil, with a 30 percent market share.

Cinemark operates theaters under several brands, including its flagship Cinemark, Century Theatres, Tinseltown, Cin\u00e9Arts and Rave Cinemas.

In May 2021, Cinemark struck agreements to show films from some of its major Hollywood studio partners, including Warner Bros., Walt Disney Studios, Paramount, and Sony. The goal of the move is to establish how long movies will play in theaters before being available for home video.

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Sierra Family Drive-In 0.13 1
Architecture, Historic Architecture, Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places, Destroyed Objects

The Ford Sierra is a mid-size car or large family car manufactured and marketed by Ford Europe from 1982-1993, designed by Uwe Bahnsen, Robert Lutz and Patrick le Qu\u00e9ment \u2014 and noted for its aerodynamic styling producing a drag coefficient of 0.34, a significant improvement over its predecessors.

The Sierra debuted at the 1982 British International Motor Show in Birmingham, shortly followed by the 1982 Paris Salon de l'Automobile. Sales began on 15 October 1982, replacing the Ford Taunus TC3 (UK: Ford Cortina Mark V). Its aerodynamic styling and the absence of a saloon/sedan configuration was such that many conservative buyers (including company car drivers) did not prefer its design. A saloon/sedan model debuted in 1987 with the introduction of the facelifted Sierra.

Designated internally under the \"Project Toni\" code name, the nameplate Sierra derived from the Spanish word for mountain range. The car was primarily manufactured in Belgium, and the United Kingdom, although Sierras were also assembled in Cork, Ireland, Argentina, Venezuela, South Africa and New Zealand.

"
R & M Cinema 0.29 1
Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places

Madras Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan Vasudevan was an Indian actor who was active in Tamil cinema and theatre during the latter half of the 20th century. He was known for playing negative roles, but he was also a successful character actor. He acted in over 75 movies in Tamil. He is the eldest son of yesteryear actor M. R. Radha, father of Vasu Vikram and half-brother of Radha Ravi, Raadhika and Nirosha.

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Calvary's Rock Church 0.37 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Old Gate Theater 0.39 1
Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places

Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, and Joseph Cotten. Loosely based on the Johnson County War, it revolves around a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s.

Cimino's follow-up to his critically acclaimed film The Deer Hunter (1978), the film's production faced numerous setbacks, including cost overruns, significant retakes, bad press (including allegations of animal abuse on set), and rumors about Cimino's allegedly authoritarian directorial style. Cimino had an expensive and ambitious vision for the film, pushing the film nearly four times over its planned budget.

After its premiere in November 1980, the film received significant critical backlash, prompting United Artists to pull it from theaters. In April 1981, a truncated re-cut version of the film was released, though it remained a financial failure, earning only $3.5 million against its $44 million budget, and was subsequently condemned as one of the worst films ever made. According to some film historians, such as Peter Biskind, the film's financial failure resulted in the demise of director-driven film production in the American film industry, steering back toward greater studio control of films.

In the decades since the release, however, general assessment of Heaven's Gate has become more favorable. The 1981 re-edit has been characterized as \"one of the greatest injustices of cinematic history\", while later re-edits have received critical acclaim. In 2015, BBC Culture ranked Heaven's Gate 98th on its list of the 100 greatest American films of all time.

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Geronimo Drive-In 0.39 1
Architecture, Historic Architecture, Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places, Destroyed Objects

Geronimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaa\u0142\u00e9, Athabaskan pronunciation:\u00a0[k\u00f2j\u00e0\u02d0\u026c\u025b\u0301], lit.\u2009'the one who yawns'; June 16, 1829 \u2013 February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache bands\u00a0\u2013 the Tchihende, the Tsokanende (called Chiricahua by Americans) and the Nednhi\u00a0\u2013 to carry out numerous raids, as well as fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona.

Geronimo's raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the Apache\u2013United States conflict, which started with the American invasion of Apache lands following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848. Reservation life was confining to the free-moving Apache people, and they resented restrictions on their customary way of life. Geronimo led breakouts from the reservations in attempts to return his people to their previous nomadic lifestyle. During Geronimo's final period of conflict from 1876 to 1886, he surrendered three times and eventually accepted life on the Apache reservations. While well-known, Geronimo was not a chief of the Bedonkohe band of the Central Apache but a shaman, as was Nokay-doklini among the Western Apache. However, since he was a superb leader in raiding and warfare, he frequently led large numbers of 30 to 50 Apache men.

In 1886, after an intense pursuit in northern Mexico by American forces that followed Geronimo's third 1885 reservation breakout, Geronimo surrendered for the last time to Lt. Charles Bare Gatewood. Geronimo and 27 other Apaches were later sent to join the rest of the Chiricahua tribe, which had been previously exiled to Florida. While holding him as a prisoner, the United States capitalized on Geronimo\u2019s fame among non-Indians by displaying him at various fairs and exhibitions. In 1898, for example, Geronimo was exhibited at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska; seven years later, the Indian Office provided Geronimo for use in a parade at the second inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt. He died at the Fort Sill hospital in 1909, as a prisoner of war, and was buried at the Fort Sill Indian Agency Cemetery, among the graves of relatives and other Apache prisoners of war.

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Fry Cemetery 0.48 1
Cemeteries, Historic, Burial Places, Interesting Places

Saint Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church 0.62 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Calvary Chapel 0.83 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Bethel Church 0.83 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Shiloh Christian Center 0.87 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Sierra Vista First Church of God In Christ 0.96 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Sierra Vista First Church of God in Christ 0.96 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Southern Arizona Veterans' Memorial Cemetery 1.02 1
Cemeteries, Historic, Burial Places, Interesting Places

Sierra Vista Evangelical Lutheran Church 1.09 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Cochise County Law Enforcement Memorial 1.69 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Cultural, Urban Environment, Interesting Places, Sculptures, Monuments

Sierra Vista Church of Christ 1.79 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Veterans Memorial Park 1.88 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Saint Stephens Episcopal Church 1.97 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Seed of Abraham Christian Center International 2.04 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Sierra Vista Church of the Nazarene 2.13 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Kingdom Hall 2.35 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Village Meadows Baptist Church 2.4 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Sierra Vista United Church of Christ 2.57 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Cinemark 10 2.9 1
Cultural, Cinemas, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places

Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (stylized as CineMark from 1998 to 2022 and CINEMARK since 2022) is an American movie theater chain that started operations in 1984 and since then it has operated theaters with hundreds of locations throughout the Americas and in Central America. It is headquartered in Plano, Texas, in the Dallas\u2013Fort Worth area. Cinemark is a leader in the theatrical exhibition industry with 521 theatres and 5,855 screens in the U.S. and Latin America as of June 30, 2022. It is the largest movie theatre chain in Brazil, with a 30 percent market share.

Cinemark operates theaters under several brands, including its flagship Cinemark, Century Theatres, Tinseltown, Cin\u00e9Arts and Rave Cinemas.

In May 2021, Cinemark struck agreements to show films from some of its major Hollywood studio partners, including Warner Bros., Walt Disney Studios, Paramount, and Sony. The goal of the move is to establish how long movies will play in theaters before being available for home video.

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