Community Trips
Our weekend hike with the kids to Seven Falls in Sabino Canyon.
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...
To get to this area take Tanque Verde
Rd and keep going toward the mountains until it becomes Redington Rd.
At around mp 2 it turns to dirt. This is a pretty rough road but
any vehicle can do it, however slowly. I was pulling my Quad on a
trailer so it was slow going at between 5-15 mph. We parked at the
parking area around mile post 12 of Redington Road #371. We...
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...
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...
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...
