Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area

Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Information

The Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area will conserve, enhance, and interpret the natural and cultural resources of the community through collaboration and partnerships. Identify and conserve Yuma’s cultural, historical, and geologic resources, recognizing that resource conservation is part of community revitalization. Assist partners to develop a diversity of interpretative opportunities, venues, and heritage sites while distinguishing between different levels of the heritage experience. Interpret Yuma’s heritage resources to emphasize their continuing role in a living, evolving community. Support and build upon existing interpretative efforts, creating dynamic partnerships with federal, state, and local entities. Attract visitors, investment, and economic opportunity to Yuma to improve the quality of life for its residents. Create a gateway to Yuma to welcome and orient visitors and to provide an overview of the areas’s significance.