Butterfield Stage Trail Index
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 […]
Maricopa County
Cave Creek Regional Park
Normally, on Christmas Eve, I hike Shaw Butte to visit it’s palo verde Christmas Tree. It’s a good work out hike. But not worth a […]
Butterfield Stage: Enid to Xmas Camp
Any given Old West trail, rather than being a singular track — like, say, Interstate 40 — was a web of routes heading in the […]
Peoria Sunrise Mountain Preserve
Personally, I avoid doing the same hike a second time. Heck, the first sixty times I hiked the desert behind my house, I only repeated […]
Roadside Memorials #6
Interstate 8 After exploring the Agua Caliente ghost town, we drove east from Dateland, towards Gila Bend, picking up the frontage road near Theba. (Because stopping […]
Graffiti #7: Arizona Canal & Cave Creek
I ride my bicycle along some portion of the Arizona Canal — aka The Homeless Highway — every week. Usually I stick around Sunnyslope, but […]
Black Mountain
Arizona has at least six Black Mountains, including two in Pima County. Today’s Black Mountain is in Cave Creek. (Technically, the summit is in Carefree, […]
Cave Creek Trail #4
Cave Creek Trail #4, per the National Forest Service, “passes through the Arizona Upland Phase of the Sonoran Desert and through riparian areas of sycamore […]
FR 1058 to Bronco Trailhead
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 26th segment of the Maricopa Trail. My goal the past five years has been to hike or bike […]
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 […]