C Hues and Mary Fricchione maintain prayer circles and meditate near the cattle guard by the tower

Ralph Shelton (and others) rides his bike frequently on the Tres Bellotas Road. Others do also. A number of people jog there.

Mary Glaser of Lonesome Oak Ranch takes children on horseback trail rides up the road & Fraguita Wash

When it rains and there is water running in Fraguita Wash, townspeople enjoy the riparian area.

Birders visit Fraguita Wash to watch birds. Arivaca is one of the most prominent birding areas in the U.S.

Hunters (and others) camp on the Fraguita Wash during deer and javelina season from September through March

Jim Chilton runs cattle in the area.  Ed and Chris Stockwell of Stockwell Honey Company have a bee yard near there

Historic uses: Site #29 is very near one corner of the 1812 Arivaca Land Grant, where the Longoreña Mine was already one of the first Spanish mines in the area.  Right below the tower site, on Fraguita Wash, there are the remnants of an old American mining camp (unfortunately not on the State’s site map) dating to 1856.  One end of the first telegraph line in the Arizona Territory was located there in 1864. For your information, a “fraguita” is a little forge (fragua) that was used for smelting ore.  In addition:

There is a placer mining claim on Fraguita Wash and people come there to pan gold

Miners still have mining claims on the hillside above Fraguita Wash, as they have for 250 years. For years there was a house on the west side of the Wash where Rolly and Ruby Vissor lived. 

As the Arivaca town historian, I sometimes take people on trips to the historic mining camp site on Fraguita Wash.

I pick algerita berries there when they are in season.