Maricopa Trail Index
Maricopa Trail is a 315 mile trail system in Maricopa County. The 315 miles is the total, including access routes. The actual loop itself, around […]
Bike Riding
Index of Trail Indices
A list of all the trails & trail systems that I am day / segment hiking, or have hiked / biked.
Tom’s Thumb TH to Granite Mountain TH
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 23rd segment of the Maricopa Trail. Not doing my planned South Mountain hike last week gave me time […]
Detroit Coney Grill to Taliesin West
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 20th segment of the Maricopa Trail. As I work my way counter-clockwise around the Maricopa Trail’s 240 mile […]
Granite Reef Dam to Detroit Coney Grill
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 19th segment of the Maricopa Trail. After recently completing the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Black Canyon Trail, this week […]
Black Canyon Trail Index
The Black Canyon Trail is a National Recreation Trail that starts at Carefree Highway, in far north Phoenix. Originally 64 miles to the Big Bug Trailhead […]
Campbell Mesa to Fisher Point
My planned second “away bike” of the summer was for an area I’d both biked before (Campbell Mesa) and hiked before (Fisher Point). On the […]
Anderson Mesa Land’o’Lakes
My first “away bike” of the summer was in an area I’d only skirted before: Anderson Mesa. (In 2017, I hiked from Marshall Lake to […]
Park of the Canals to Granite Reef Dam
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 18th segment of the Maricopa Trail. Last month, I was in Maryland, day hiking the 184 mile Chesapeake […]
Fiery Sunnyslope Bike Ride
Doing my normal short loop bike ride through Sunnyslope. Stop for a quick break near the grade school on Mountain View. Continue east to 7th […]