lavender pit

Not much to see. The Lavender pit is just a big hole in the ground. Take a couple of pictures and move on. Take a quick picture then move on to the interesting Queen Mine Tour and then go hang out in town. Cool little place. I read reviews about the cool colors but it just wasn't that impressive. Bisbee is still worth the visit. There is a lot to do. The stock exchange restaurant was amazing. Crazy Good Pizza and a Apple Pie that will make you "slap ya momma".Cheers,Joe

I never go to Bisbee without stopping at the Lavender Pit. It is an interesting relic of the past. Do some reading about the history of mining in the area before going!

Stop at the Visitor's Kiosk, tells about the mine. The colors are fantastic depending on the light of day.

I was really excited to see this because I had read so many reviews about the beautiful coloring. It was an overcast day and we are too old to climb to get the best views, so maybe that's why we didn't see beautiful colors. The rusted fence also interferes with the view. It is very near the Queens Mine, so if you are going there, you definitely should stop at the Lavender Pit. There is plenty of parking, but no facilities. There is no fee to stop here.

Pull out area beside highway has excellent visual display boards detailing the history of the mine and clean up efforts. The landscape is forever changed by the mine site and tailings.

It's very impressive and it is being reclaimed nowadays. To get the best views, climb the roadway leading to the RV park above the Visitors Center (where the tours for the Copper mine start). You will be at a high enough elevation to have a great view of the entire pit. It truly is lavender color at certain times of the day.-------------

We took a Golf Cart Tour of town that started here. Our guide spent years working in mine remediation, so he was very knowledgeable about what we were looking at. Now that he's an entrepreneur, he gave us what appeared to be an objective assessment of the environmental challenges the town faces, not just from this pit but from the ground cover and support walls that are central to the picturesque "terracing" of houses up the hill. We highly recommend this tour for the economic, cultural and local insights provided.

Every time I see it and realize how much came from it over such a short time I'm amazed. Not as large as the grand canyon, it's still a big hole!

Drove my daughter over to see a very big pit mine and she was very impressed. Quite the hole in the ground and there are even seats and pictorial history available.

Was driving past old Bisbee and looked to my right and what did I see but this big hole in the ground. I have to admit it is huge and makes you rubber neck when driving by it. I found an actual visitor spot to to get a glimpse of this Hugh hole. There is a fence so you won't fall to your death. You don'e get the size of this hole until you see that there are buildings around the edge and then when you compare the size to it, you get it.I can't imagine how long it took to make such a beast of a hole. Everyday when I was driving around old Bisbee I would have to look with amazement. Yes, it is really not a tourist attraction but you can't help but be amazed on how big this thing is. I decided to shot something in there for generations to find later. Only time will tell.

The Lavender Pit was named after the man who founded it. It is interesting to see and quite impressive but it needs more readily available information about it's development and history. We learned more about it from other tours than we did from stopping there ourselves. But, it's a great way to get to the Bisbee Breakfast Club so stop on the way.

I've done this twice and found it informative both times. The first time I went I was in my early 20's and then again when my boys were in their teens. It's a great way to see how the area survived years ago.

My husband had seen this when he was stationed at Fort Huachuca in the late 60s. After years about hearing his descriptions about it, I was thrilled to finally see it. Unfortunately, it wasn't as he remembered after all those years, but the story boards at the site have photographs from the past. The pit is no longer in use and erosion has changed the way it looks from way back then. But it's still very impressive. There is a fence around it, but there are cutouts in the fence so photos can be taken without the fence in the way. Well worth a stop.

I wish there were a tour that would take you down into the pit. It is an awesome sight! It is difficult to grasp the immensity of it standing behind a chain link fence at the top. The mine has tours; why not the pit?

It's actually pretty depressing seeing the results of strip mining. The huge pit is surrounded by high fencing with viewing holes. The pit surrounded by the slag left over after the minerals were extracted. It just shows that progress comes at the expense of the land.