Facilities

Facilities available at Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park.

Visitor Center / Park

The Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park and Visitor Center is open year-round, 5 days a week, from 9 am – 5 pm. The Park and Visitor Center are closed December 25th, and close at 2 pm on December 24th and Thanksgiving Day.

The Visitor Center features changing exhibits that introduce visitors to the park’s military history of the late 1800s, and the history of the Bureau of Reclamation on the park grounds during the 1900s.

The park’s 30-minute video, entitled Yuma Crossing, is shown by request in the Visitor Center. The video covers the general history of the Yuma area, beginning with the arrival of the Spaniards in 1540, and continuing up through the construction of the Ocean-to-Ocean Bridge in 1915.

Restrooms

This park has modern, handicapped-accessible restrooms in the Visitor Center and on the park grounds.

Gift Shop

The park gift shop offers a wide variety of souvenirs and books for sale. Popular souvenirs include T-shirts, magnets, and coasters, while the large assortment of books covers the Spanish, military, and natural history of the Southwest.

The gift shop also carries children’s books and toys, including rocks, stuffed animals, and replica lawmen badges.

Museum

Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park is the site of an old Army supply depot that operated between 1864 and 1883. The purpose of the depot was to store six months' worth of supplies for all the forts in Arizona Territory and several forts outside of the territory. After abandonment by the military, various federal government agencies moved into the buildings. These agencies included the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Customs Service, and the U.S. Weather Service. Five of the original depot buildings remain on the park grounds, and four of these buildings contain exhibits. Exhibits cover both the military history of the site and the history of the Bureau of Reclamation's construction of major irrigation works in the Yuma area during the early 1900s.

Visitor Center exhibits include military history with uniforms and artifacts, plus a model T Ford on a 1920s wood plank road, and historic Bureau of Reclamation photographs along the Colorado River.

Storehouse exhibits include the Steamboat Era on the Colorado River, Army Escort Wagon with Mules, and Colorado River History.

The 1870s Office of the Depot Quartermaster highlights two period rooms of the Depot office & Signal Corps. Exhibits in the center room focus on military history, model of the site, and uniforms. A weather station and telegraph pole are situated just outside.

The Commanding Officers Quarters is a historic house museum furnished to the period of when officers and their families resided there in the 1870s.

The Corral house and Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) addition house exhibits on the BOR, native fish of the Colorado River, period BOR office, and a deep sea diving outfit used in Yuma.

Outside exhibits include two ramadas with interpretive panels on the railroad and BOR, a steam boiler, a large stone water reservoir, and an encampment with wagons.

Group: Day Use Areas

The park has one, group-use area with picnic tables under a shade ramada. Reservations are required for use of the ramada. Please call the park at 928-329-0471 for pricing details and to make your reservation.

Picnic Areas/Shelters

Picnic tables are placed throughout the park for visitor use. The park has one Group: Day Use picnic shelter. (Please see Group: Day Use Areas above for more information.)

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