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Yuma Territorial Prison Visitor's Center
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  • Updated By Basaic on November 20, 2007
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    Visitor's Center
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    The Yuma Territorial Prison started when seven inmates were sent to the prison in July 1876. They were housed in cells they built thenselves. In the 33 years the prison operated 3069 prisoners, including 29 women, lived within the walls of the prison. The park is open from 8 AM to 5 PM daily except it closes at 2PM on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Eve. It is closed on Christmas Day. Entrance is $4 for 14 and up and free for 13 and below. Facilities include a visitor's center, a museum, a gift shop, a video room, picnic area and restrooms. They have a number of special events listed on the website.

    Your first stop at the park should be the visitor's center where you can get informational brochures, but souvenirs, and pay the entrance fee.

  • Address: 1 Prison Hill Road, Yuma, Arizona 85364
  • Phone: (928) 783-4771
  • Directions: Take I-8 to Yuma, take Exit 1 to Giss Parkway, turn at Prison Hill Road.
  • Website: http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/yuma.html
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    Yuma Territorial Prison Museum
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  • Updated By Basaic on September 14, 2007
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    Wagon in Museum
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    There is a museum on the grounds that discusses the construction of the jail, the inmates, the jailers, the townspeople and the Native Americans in the area.

  • Address: 1 Prison Hill Road, Yuma, Arizona 85364
  • Phone: (928) 783-4771
  • Directions: Take I-8 to Yuma, take Exit 1 to Giss Parkway, turn at Prison Hill Road.
  • Website: http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/yuma.html
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    Guard Tower at YTP State Park
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  • By Basaic on September 13, 2007
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    Guard Tower
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    One of the first thimgs you will notice as you approach the Yuma Territorial Prison Historic State Park is the guardtower. The guardtower was built on top of the water storage tank on a platform placed there to reduce evaporation. After the prison was closed the guardtower served several other purposes including a civil defense lookout tower during World War 2, until the state park was established.

  • Address: 1 Prison Hill Road, Yuma, Arizona 85364
  • Phone: (928) 783-4771
  • Directions: Take I-8 to Yuma, take Exit 1 to Giss Parkway, turn at Prison Hill Road.
  • Website: http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/yuma.html
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    You just have to go to the old...
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  • Updated By brdwtchr on August 25, 2002
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    You just have to go to the old prison if you are in Yuma. It is the area's main attraction. The prison was built in 1876 and was made famous in western novels and cowboy movies. In the years after the prison was closed it was used as a location for filming movies about the French Foreign Legion. If you have seen any of those old black and white movies you have already seen Yuma Prison and did not know it.
    You can see what is left of the old buildings. Many of them were made of stone and have held up well. There is a museum there about the prison and a nature trail also.

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  • Directions: Take the 4th Street exit from I-8 and follow the signs. If you go the wrong way you will wind up at the Yuma visitors center and they can give you directions back.
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    Checkout the jailhouse!!!
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  • Updated By spartan on December 11, 2002
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    Yuma Territorial Prison State Park - Between 1876 and 1909, this penitentiary housed many of Arizona's most dangerous and notorious criminals. Famed in movies, literature and television, the remains of the prison are now Arizona's most visited State Historic Park. The cells, main gate and guard tower have endured as grim reminders of frontier justice. Museum exhibits document the story of the prison.

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  • Address: 1 Prison Hill Road
  • Phone: (928) 783-4771
  • Directions: Take I-8 to Yuma, take Exit 1 to Giss Parkway, turn at Prison Hill Road.
  • Website: http://www.pr.state.az.us/parkhtml/yuma.html
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    The Dark Cell in Yuma Territorial Prison
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  • By Basaic on September 13, 2007
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    Dark Cell
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    For particularly unruly prisoners the prison built a few "dark cells" as punishment for the prisoner. As you can see from the photo the cell is appropriately named.

  • Address: 1 Prison Hill Road, Yuma, Arizona 85364
  • Phone: (928) 783-4771
  • Directions: Take I-8 to Yuma, take Exit 1 to Giss Parkway, turn at Prison Hill Road.
  • Website: http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/yuma.html
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    Cells at Yuma Territorial Prison HSP
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  • By Basaic on September 13, 2007
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    Gate to Cells Area
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    Here you see the entrance to the cell area and some of the cells from the prison. These were all built by the prisoners that would later occupy them. The original prison got too crowded so a row of new cells was added.

  • Address: 1 Prison Hill Road, Yuma, Arizona 85364
  • Phone: (928) 783-4771
  • Directions: Take I-8 to Yuma, take Exit 1 to Giss Parkway, turn at Prison Hill Road.
  • Website: http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/yuma.html
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    Prison Entrance
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  • By Basaic on September 13, 2007
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    Entrance to Prison
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    One of the next things you notice are the entrences to the prison itself (also called a sallyport).

  • Address: 1 Prison Hill Road, Yuma, Arizona 85364
  • Phone: (928) 783-4771
  • Directions: Take I-8 to Yuma, take Exit 1 to Giss Parkway, turn at Prison Hill Road.
  • Website: http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/yuma.html
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    Prison Wagon
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  • By Basaic on September 13, 2007
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    Prison Wagon
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    This is a replica of the wagons used to transport the prisoners to the prison.

  • Address: 1 Prison Hill Road, Yuma, Arizona 85364
  • Phone: (928) 783-4771
  • Directions: Take I-8 to Yuma, take Exit 1 to Giss Parkway, turn at Prison Hill Road.
  • Website: http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/yuma.html
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    Inside the Cells in Yuma Territorial Prison
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  • Updated By Basaic on September 13, 2007
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    Inside Cell
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    Here you can see inside some of the cells.

  • Address: 1 Prison Hill Road, Yuma, Arizona 85364
  • Phone: (928) 783-4771
  • Directions: Take I-8 to Yuma, take Exit 1 to Giss Parkway, turn at Prison Hill Road.
  • Website: http://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/yuma.html
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