I live 11 miles from this place, but it's only been ten days since I found it. A friend lives nearby and said this is where she parks her car and walks her dog on a three-mile loop down to the San Pedro River and back. She took me here with another dogwalker and I've been coming here daily ever since.
There isn't much at the actual kill site other than a plaque describing how Ed Lehner in 1952, landowner of this site, who found butchering tools along with tapir, mammoth, bison and horse bones dating 11,000 years ago when Clovis people lived here. There's nothing here now but the plaque on a high spot in the area. It's now used mostly for other things: It's a great place to set up a telescope on a new moon, or a camera tripod for those gorgeous sun rises and sunsets, and moon rises and moon sets. You have a panoramic view of the Huachuca Mountains.
About 50 meters east is a trail that locals use for their dogs and horses. It is a perimeter trail that loops around the field. Birders at the nearby San Pedro B&B use this trail along the river early in the mourning and near dusk to spot birds of all kinds. There are harriers that fly over the field looking for a meal.
I would not suggest anyone come here after dusk, as it's six miles from the border with Mexico. read more