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San Tan Mountain Regional Park

Mansel Carter, and his Cherokee sidekick Marion Kennedy, were mid-20th century prospectors in the San Tan Mountains. When Carter passed in 1987, Queen Creek was still mostly rural. Now, it is a city of 76,000, extending nearly to Florence. The Carter & Kennedy graves are just off Goldmine Trail, ⅓ mile south of Goldmine Trailhead.

San Tan Mountain Regional Park

2025-02-19 Hiking 0

It’s a long drive from Sunnyslope to Queen Creek, so it’s been three years since I last hiked San Tan Mountain Regional Park. Back then, […]

I guess you could say I have a thing for sunburst photos. My favorite was in the Castle Dome Mountains.

San Tan Mountain Regional Park

2022-03-16 Hiking 0

Unlike most of metro Phoenix, which is laid out in one mile squares, the roads in Queen Creek are all curley. So, for the third […]

Nathan Martens memorial at the Afghanistan-Iraq War Memorial in San Tan Mountain Regional Park. The Martens family lives adjacent to the park.

San Tan Mountain Regional Park

2020-01-16 Hiking 0

The Phoenix metro area — aka the “Valley of the Sun” — is so large it is hard to grasp how big it really is: […]

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