Content tagged with "Tucson"

The first in an ongoing series of official Earthgoers Guides.  We explore Saguaro National Park, which  consists of two separate districts located east and west of Tucson, Arizona.  The park encompasses over 91,000 acres and is home to an estimated 1.6 million saguaro (pronounced sah-WAH-roh) cacti for which the park is named.  The park preserves some of the finest Sonoran Desert and provides vast recreation opportunities with its 165 miles of hiking, biking and horseback riding trails...

I made a trek out to the Tucson Mountains District of Saguaro National Park to hike a number of trails and take a lot of pictures.  You can see the results: King Canyon Trail (to Wasson Peak), Cactus Garden Trail, Desert Discovery Trail, Valley View Overlook Trail, and Signal Hill Petroglyphs Trail.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Today I added a number of trails in the Nogales and Sierra Vista ranger districts of the Coronado National Forest.  There are various routes through the Santa Rita Mountains and up its tallest peak, Mt. Wrightson.  There are also a few in the Huachuca Mountains, including Miller and Huachuca peaks.  Most are categorized under Nogales, Sierra Vista, Tucson, and of course, Coronado National Forest.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

I took a quick trip to Saguaro National Park today to drive the 8-mile Cactus Forest loop and hike a couple trails. Complete with pictures and full descriptions, check out the Desert Ecology Trail and the Loma Verde Loop.  Both are beautiful Sonoran Desert hikes.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Today I added all the trails listed under the Santa Catalina Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest.  Most of these trails are very popular with Tucsonans.  The descriptions and numbers (length, elevation change, etc.) were all pulled from the official Coronado National Forest recreation page.  If you don't feel like writing your own description for a trail, you can do this too, since all federal government web sites are free of copyright.

What's really missing on these trails is your personal touch.  For some of the trails you've done, feel free to edit the descriptions, add comments about your experiences, or best of all, upload some photos. I added a few of my photos taken during a February hike on the Pima Canyon Trail.

You can see the trails under the categories Coronado National Forest and Tucson.