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Bike Riding

Butterfield Stage Trail: The first Boy Scout skull pole in five miles, at the Happy Camp / Fortymile Desert Tank cistern.

Butterfield Stage: Estrella Rd. to Gap Well

2026-02-10 Bike Riding 0

What is now known as the Butterfield Stage Trail was in use at least as early as Juan Bautista de Anza’s expedition from Culiacan to […]

The Mormon Battalion preceded the Butterfield Stage by twelve years. The route was also known as the Southern Emigrant Trail, Kearny Trail, or Gila Trail.

Butterfield Stage: Xmas Camp-Estrella Rd.

2025-12-31 Bike Riding 0

The Butterfield Stage was only in operation from 1858-1861, but the Southern Emigrant Trail across the desert Southwest was in use from Juan Bautista de Anza […]

Butterfield Stage Trail

Butterfield Stage Trail Index

2025-12-31 Hiking 0

The Butterfield Stage Trail is a National Historic Trail that starts in St. Louis, travels various routes across the Southwest, ending 2,795 miles later in […]

generic white hiker on brown background sign

Index of Trail Indices

2025-12-31 Bike Riding, Hiking 0

A list of all the trails & trail systems that I am day / segment hiking, or have hiked / biked.

Butterfield Stage Trail: The only "climb" beween Enid and Christmas Camp is 35 ft. at 6.8%, in the first mile, around Hill 1535. If you feel motivated, you can always ride over it. (GoPro screen cap)

Butterfield Stage: Enid to Xmas Camp

2025-12-02 Bike Riding 0

Any given Old West trail, rather than being a singular track — like, say, Interstate 40 — was a web of routes heading in the […]

Brush Tunnel: Signs warn to stay trailside of the fence, walk your bike though, and not to enter Brush Tunnel with an oncoming train. Did, did not, and would have. (No way I'm missing that shot!)

GAP Trail: Cumberland to Frostburg

2025-08-08 Bike Riding 0

The Great Allegheny Passage, aka the GAP Trail, is a 150-mile rail trail that travels from the end of the C&O Canal in Cumberland, Maryland, […]

Maricopa Trail

Maricopa Trail Index

2025-04-01 Bike Riding, Hiking 0

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 […]

Looking past desert broom (Baccharis sarothroides) to the Loop 101 Freeway. There were no other desert flowers.

Reach 11 Recreation Area

2025-01-07 Bike Riding 0

Reach 11 Recreation Area is located in north Phoenix. From Cave Creek Rd., Reach 11 stretches seven miles east to Scottsdale Rd., and a less than a […]

Beautiful clouds over White Horse Lake.

White Horse Lake to Sycamore Point

2024-08-14 Bike Riding 0

White Horse Lake is a dammed 35-acre lake, located 13 miles southeast Williams, on the rim of Sycamore Canyon. White Horse Lake Campground has 94 […]

Lake One -- that is its name -- is just off AZ-260, about where trail marker V72 should be.

General Crook Trail: V71-V80

2024-07-24 Bike Riding 0

Heading east from Dewey, this is the 10th segment of General Crook Trail. The original General Crook Trail, surveyed by General George Crook in 1871, was […]

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Recent Posts

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    Black Mountain

    2026-03-03 Hiking 0
  • North Mountain anti-graffiti sign

    North Mountain Intervals

    2026-02-28 Hiking 0
  • Globe chamomile, aka stinknet (Oncosiphon pilulifer), an invasive species from South Africa, has become widespread in Maricopa County over the last 15 years. Stinknet was the most common flower in Reach 11.

    Reach 11 Recreation Area

    2026-02-25 Hiking 0
  • South Mountain Park: Looking northwest from inside Dobbins Lookout. North Mountain is visible past downtown Phoenix (right).

    South Mountain: Holbert Loop

    2026-02-18 Hiking 0
  • Butterfield Stage Trail: The first Boy Scout skull pole in five miles, at the Happy Camp / Fortymile Desert Tank cistern.

    Butterfield Stage: Estrella Rd. to Gap Well

    2026-02-10 Bike Riding 0

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