Trips
The Tanque Verde Ridge trailhead is located at the Javelina picnic area in the Saguaro National Park - East. I arrived at the trailhead around 10 am and started the 6.9 mile hike to the Juniper Basin campground. After a few 100 yards, there's a book for you to write the date, your name, the number of your party and when you departed.
The first half of the hike offers great views...
My Mystery Trail - A GPS usage game in Saguaro National Park (East)
Tanque Verde, Arizona, United States
Hiking | 6.1 miles
Hiking | 6.1 miles
This trip began as a game: My hubby went hiking yesterday, did not tell me where he was going, and when he returned, he gave me three sets of coordinates: "trailhead", "something" and "turnaround point". The rest was up to me. I entered the points on google maps in order to figure out where the trailhead was. Then I entered the way points into my gps manually. I used this in determine...
We like the whole area around Douglas Springs Trail and Bridal Wreath Falls. While the Douglas Springs trail can be quite busy it is still a nice area to explore. This year instead of visiting Bridal Wreath Falls (I wish we had as it would have only added 20-30 minutes) we decided to check out Ernie's Falls which we knew nothing about. From what I could gather the trail to Ernie's Falls...
Trail starts at Babad Doag Vista parking area about 6 miles up Mt. Lemmon road. Park and cross the highway to the trailhead. This hike is about an hour up and 45 to an hour back down, but good elevation gain makes it a good workout. It was 96 degrees when I did it in October before noon. Hot.
We had a small navigational snafu with this hike as we started from a different spot than we had intended too. That little mistake just adds more proof to the fact that if you start with faulty assumptions about where you are you are going to get confused trying to match reality to what you believe you know. Once we realized our mistake things went smoothly and we had a chance to...
Bridal Wreath Falls, Saguaro National Park (East)
Tanque Verde, Arizona, United States
Hiking | 5.9 miles
Hiking | 5.9 miles
A really nice evening walk right outside Tucson in the National Park. Begin at the Douglas Spring Trailhead. This is not at the main entrance to the Park, but at the very eastern end of East Speedway. The desert is lush here with lots of cactus of all kinds and many old, beautiful Saguaro. The hike begins with a gradual incline, then climbs steadily (enough to get me breathing!), then levels out...
Saguaro National Park (East) - Shantz / Vanover
Tanque Verde, Arizona, United States
Hiking | 4.3 miles
Hiking | 4.3 miles
Saguaro - Cactus Forest / Mesquite / Loma Verde / Pink Hill / Shantz
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Hiking | 4.4 miles
Hiking | 4.4 miles
DrRic Hiking -Tanque Verde Ridge of Rincon Mountain District
Civano, Arizona, United States
Hiking | 3.3 miles
Hiking | 3.3 miles
Did a night hike while at AZCIM, decided to see what the place looked like in daylight. Pleasantly surprised. The hike is an up and back but can extend along the entire ridge line 6.9 miles. I chose to just get to a scenic vista for sunset. Well maintained roads and trails. Elevation is gradual, (not like Picacho), views are great, reports stated recent mountain lion encounters so.....I was thinking about that...
Followed the trail to Hidden Pasture as described in Dave Baker's blog. As the track shows, it's not so much a trail as a route along the bottom of a drainage, and I frequently lost track of the cairns and just blundered on.
Finally found Hidden Pasture - a bushwack to flat amphitheater area in the Little Rincon Mountains
Nice fast hike. Perfect if you only want to be out for an hour.
