Lost Dog Wash Trail to Taliesin Overlook
Lost Dog Wash Trail to Taliesin Overlook is 2.1 miles, 400 ft. accumulated elevation gain (AEG), outbound. Only 60 AEG on the return trip. Alternately, Ringtail […]
Scottsdale
Granite Mountain TH to Bartlett Dam Rd
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 24th segment of the Maricopa Trail. The Maricopa Trail is a 315-mile trail system around the Phoenix metro […]
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 […]
Gateway Trailhead to Tom’s Thumb TH
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 22nd segment of the Maricopa Trail. The Maricopa Trail is a 315-mile trail system in & around the […]
Taliesin West to Gateway Trailhead
Counter-clockwise from Bronco Trailhead, this is the 21st segment of the Maricopa Trail. My goal is to hike or bike all 245 miles of the […]
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 245 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 […]
Marcus Landslide
Marcus Landslide was “discovered” in 2002 by two ASU geography post-grads. Surely, many people had looked at the rocks before, but the students were the […]
Brown’s Mountain Loop
Brown’s Mountain is a formation in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, north of the ritzy Troon North Golf Club. It is part of a chain of […]
Granite Mountain Loop
First off, just to be clear, this is the Granite Mountain in north Scottsdale’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve — not the Granite Mountain in Prescott, made […]