Prescott Circle Trail (The Other PCT)

Prescott Circle Trail Index

2026-05-06 0

The Prescott Circle Trail (PCT) is a 54-mile loop around Prescott that utilizes City of Prescott, Yavapai County and Prescott National Forest trails. The PCT […]

Cottonwood Trail #508: The human-only v-gate on FR 139, just south of AZ-260.

Cottonwood Trail #508

2026-04-22 0

Heading east from Dewey, this is a bonus, non-canonical, 15th segment of General Crook Trail. As surveyed by the general himself in 1871, the General […]

Enjoying a hiking beer atop Sunrise Peak. (That palo verde is the high point.)

Lost Dog Wash to Sunrise Peak

2026-03-12 0

Sunrise Peak is in Scottsdale’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve, the largest city park in the United States at 30,500 acres. Maricopa County’s McDowell Mountain Regional Park, […]

Black Mountain is steep, but not THAT steep.

Black Mountain

2026-03-03 0

Since I finished the C&O Canal, I plan on returning to doing Appalachian Trail day / segment hikes. There’s a lot of up & downs […]

North Mountain anti-graffiti sign

North Mountain Intervals

2026-02-28 0

It’s been over a year since I hiked North Mountain. Most of my during-the-week exercise has been biking around Sunnyslope. I decided to get back […]