Content tagged with "Arizona"

Stefan Bill added the three corridor trails within Grand Canyon National Park to our trail guide.  These are the most heavily used in the park and are renowned for their spectacular views.

• South Kaibab Trail - The shortest and steepest route to the Colorado River.  This trail follows ridgelines and stays exposed.
• Bright Angel Trail - A longer route that has water along the way and mostly stays in a side canyon.
• North Kaibab Trail - The main route to the river from the North Rim.

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Stefan Bill added 13 trails to our trail guide, all within Coronado National Forest near Sierra Vista, Arizona.  These trails form a network in the Huachuca Mountains that is excellent for birdwatching, fall colors, and year-round hiking. A few of the more notable trails:

• Crest Trail #103 - This trail forms the backbone of the trail network that crisscrosses the Huachuca Mountains and therefore most trails lead to it.  There are spurs that lead to Miller, Ramsey, and Pat Scott Peaks.
• Hunter Canyon Trail #111 and Clark Spring Trail #124 - These two trails contour along the east slope of the Huachucas, connecting three of the major canyons that cut that side of the mountain range.

Also, elbillo added the Escudillo National Recreation Trail #308 near Pinetop-Showlow in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in eastern Arizona.  This trail leads to the top of Arizona's third-highest peak.  At the summit there is a fire lookout tower that offers a 360-degree view of much of the state.

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Stefan Bill added 21 trails to our trail guide, all within Tonto National Forest near Phoenix, Arizona.  Some of the more notable trails:

• Fossil Springs Trail #18 - A 3.1-mile trail just north of Payson that leads to a spring with swimming pools.
• Siphon Draw Trail #53 - A 1.1-mile trail near the Superstitions that leads to panoramic views of the Valley of the Sun and surrounding mountains.  Also connects to Prospector's Trail #57 and Jacob's Trail #58.

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The first in an ongoing series of official Earthgoers Guides.  We explore Saguaro National Park, which  consists of two separate districts located east and west of Tucson, Arizona.  The park encompasses over 91,000 acres and is home to an estimated 1.6 million saguaro (pronounced sah-WAH-roh) cacti for which the park is named.  The park preserves some of the finest Sonoran Desert and provides vast recreation opportunities with its 165 miles of hiking, biking and horseback riding trails...

ljb added four trails to our trail guide today:

• Jug Trail #61 - A trail with an optional canyoneering section located northeast of Phoenix, Arizona.
• Peralta Trail #102 - A popular hike in the Superstition Mountains located east of Phoenix, Arizona.
• South Fork Trail #243 - A great trail for birdwatching and viewing fall colors located in the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona.
• Miller Canyon Trail #106 - Another trail for fall colors, this displays the remnants of past mining activity as well.  Located near Sierra Vista, Arizona.

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I made a trek out to the Tucson Mountains District of Saguaro National Park to hike a number of trails and take a lot of pictures.  You can see the results: King Canyon Trail (to Wasson Peak), Cactus Garden Trail, Desert Discovery Trail, Valley View Overlook Trail, and Signal Hill Petroglyphs Trail.

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Today brings us some trails from the Bureau of Land Management.  There were four trails listed on the BLM's Sonoran Desert National Monument web site, so I entered them here.  After reading the trail descriptions, the area sounds like a great place for some Arizona winter hikes.  I'll be visiting this area sometime soon.  In the meantime, you can see the trails categorized under Sonoran Desert National Monument and Casa Grande.

I also added a few more trails from Cleveland National Forest, which sits about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego.

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Today I added a number of trails in the Nogales and Sierra Vista ranger districts of the Coronado National Forest.  There are various routes through the Santa Rita Mountains and up its tallest peak, Mt. Wrightson.  There are also a few in the Huachuca Mountains, including Miller and Huachuca peaks.  Most are categorized under Nogales, Sierra Vista, Tucson, and of course, Coronado National Forest.

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I took a quick trip to Saguaro National Park today to drive the 8-mile Cactus Forest loop and hike a couple trails. Complete with pictures and full descriptions, check out the Desert Ecology Trail and the Loma Verde Loop.  Both are beautiful Sonoran Desert hikes.

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Today I added all the trails listed under the Santa Catalina Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest.  Most of these trails are very popular with Tucsonans.  The descriptions and numbers (length, elevation change, etc.) were all pulled from the official Coronado National Forest recreation page.  If you don't feel like writing your own description for a trail, you can do this too, since all federal government web sites are free of copyright.

What's really missing on these trails is your personal touch.  For some of the trails you've done, feel free to edit the descriptions, add comments about your experiences, or best of all, upload some photos. I added a few of my photos taken during a February hike on the Pima Canyon Trail.

You can see the trails under the categories Coronado National Forest and Tucson.