Park 179- Ft Bowie National Historic Site, Bowie, Arizona

This trip was combined with a visit to Chiracahua- and besides Gila Cliff Dwellings, it is top on the list of "you really have to want to visit this park."
You go 8 miles first on a dirt road, that is very washboardy....

The GPS had a real struggle trying to get me here, it tried to several times have me leave the main road and go off on side roads, and at first said it was 21 miles, when in fact it was only 8. 

This leads you to a trail head, where if you are able, you can walk in 1.5 miles to the visitor center, which is actually at the scene of the old fort- 
I opted to go another 4 miles up the road to the handicapped entrance-

From the handicapped entrance, you parked in the utility lot/living quarters of the park, and then walked about 700 feet up a pretty good hill to the VC. 

The fort itself is right out the front door-  the fort was active as a defense post against the Apache uprisings of Geronimo and Cochise, and then abandoned in the late 1890's, and has since got to ruins. 

Got 2 stamps here, had to ask for the 25th anniv, and also a pin and a hiking staff medallion, and one for the National Parks as well.