Fort Huachuca, Arizona is an operating army base on the edge of the Huachuca Mountains just 15 miles from the Mexican border. It was one of the earliest, if not the first, to test unmanned planes. The closest town is Sierra Vista to which the fort is annexed. Tombstone is close by, as is the old copper mining town of Bisbee. The fort was originally built for the Buffalo Soldiers and today hosts myriad army functions. It also houses the aerostat, the DEA’s radar equipped, lighter than air vehicle.
Ramsey Canyon in the Huachuca Mountains attracts bird watchers from around the world and is dubbed the Hummingbird capital of the world.
A short distance from Fort Huachuca is an approximately 12,000 year old Clovis Indian site, Murray Springs, which was settled in the late Pleistocene era by a small group of Clovis people. How they became extinct is still a mystery.