Community Trips
Our weekend hike with the kids to Seven Falls in Sabino Canyon.
This is a hike starting at the Sabino Canyon Visitor Center. Most of the trail is on the east side of the canyon. The trail was well maintained. It only became somewhat overgrown after the northern most waypoint. Expect lots of crowds near the trailhead on weekends. Further along the trail, I passed other hikers approximately every 30 minutes. Although there was 2000 feet gain in elevation, most of this gain was...
I started at the Uppermost trailhead for Butterfly trail. There is ample parking in a paved lot at the trailhead. Also there are benches and a bathroom (clean but an outhouse none the less). The trail starts at a small road but the trail then deviates to the left. Watch for the sign. The trail mostly goes downhill beginning with tall pine and a view of the San Manuel Valley. You will...
Park at Staging area which is around the 10 or 11 milepost. There are
Bathrooms at this area. Head north on 4434 and pretty quickly to your
right you will see an ATV/motorcycle trail. This will cut over to 36.
If you have a street legal bike you can just take redington rd on up
to 36. Head north on 36. You will come to gates along the way, Make
sure you close them as you go...
Went on a hike with some friend. Very easy hike. Water was flowing so there were some tricky river crossings but very little elevation change. Great hike. Bring lots of water during the summer.
The Soldier Trail is a moderately strenuous hike into the Santa Catalina Mountains northeast of Tucson. Access to both ends of the trail is via the Catalina Highway. The upper end of the trail ends at a former prison camp used to house convicts who built the highway in the early 1940's. Among the prisoners were Japanese-Americans who contested their internment under Earl Warren and the Roosevelt administration. A court challenge by...
We parked a car at the Molino Basin self-pay station and drove up to the TH just before General Hitchcock CG. It was snowing and hailing on us - in April! Headed out from the TH and pushed/carried our bikes up the heinous water bars for the first half mile or so. The rest of the trail was great, snow finally melted away about half way down. It hailed on us again...
This is the first 1.75 miles of knagg trail, we started to vear off trail. We'll have to try it again next time.
