Comstock Hill is a little bump on the north end of Tombstone, notable for a T on its hillside. I had just hiked Peak 4849 "Mackenzie Ranch Peak" north of Benson and was on my way back to Bisbee. I stopped in to check out this little hill. It rises opposite the highway from Boot Hill

Getting close to it is easy with a simple road map handy. I drove in one scraggly dirt track, and parked in a small opening near where the summit track veers off. The hike up went fast, just five minutes. The top is kind of junky. I found the benchmark and a reference mark, some piles of rocks and some random trash. I also walked over to look at the T, viewing it from above.

The views into Tombstone are good. It's not very big so I could see pretty much the entire town. I hiked back down, gone a total of ten minutes.

This is not the highpoint of Tombstone. Some land on its southern city limits is about forty feet higher. I have no desire to go seek that spot out.

Comstock Hill and its "T" as seen from the gas station in town

The track up to the top

Elevated view of Tombstone, the rootenest, tootenest, and for a time, the shootenest, town in the West

Summit area

Northwest, the Whetstone Mountains way in back

A close-up of the T on the hill

Benchmark and one of the reference marks, they have seen better days

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