azcentral.com Mare Czinar Paul Paonessa, the project manager for Volunteers for Outdoor Arizona, has a name for the pre-rehabilitated condition of the Highline Trail #31: SOLPOST. The sobriquet, which was coined by Woody Keen, former director of the Professional Trail Builders Association, is an acronym for “Scar on the Land Piece of S–t Trail.” [To read the rest of this […]

The Daily Courier Ted Johnson Our borderlands offer some of the best hiking anywhere with rugged canyons and challenging peaks. Miller Peak falls into the latter category. It rises to over 9,000 feet from a trailhead elevation of nearly 6,000 feet. My first attempt at the summit was in the spring of 1968. [To read the rest of this article, […]

SGB Media Granite Gear’s Grounds Keepers program has come to an end in its inaugural year, resulting in 17 hikers removing a total of 1,117.8 pounds of trash from the Pacific Crest Trail, Appalachian Trail, Pacific Northwest Trail, Arizona Trail, Colorado Trail, Florida Scenic Trail and Superior Hiking Trail. [To read the rest of this article, click here.]

azcentral.com Roger Naylor This year, Oracle State Park came all the way back from the dead. No other park suffered like Oracle did during the bloodletting of the economic downturn. After the legislature swept $8.6 million from the Arizona State Parks budget during a special session in December 2009, 13 parks were slated for closure. [To read the rest of […]

CopperArea.com The Arizona Trail has a craft beer named in its honor. But great news for coffee drinkers. It now has its own blend of coffee. Sky Island Roasters located at 1575 W. American Avenue in Oracle introduced its newest blend a few months ago. They partnered with the Arizona Trail Association to produce the AZ Trail Blend, a blend […]

Pathways Across America As part of its commitment to create access to the outdoors for all, Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) has invested $1 million in organizations across the country that are creating opportunities to connect women and girls to nature. [To read the rest of this article, click here.]

The Herald Review With a passion for the outdoors, Rep. Martha McSally is launching an initiative to promote Arizona’s natural beauty and diverse landscape across the state. On Saturday, she led an entourage of hikers from the Coronado National Memorial parking down the Arizona Trail to its starting point at the Arizona/Mexico border, highlighting the trail while calling attention to […]

MarthMcSally.com U.S. Representative McSally (AZ-02) will become the first member of Congress to hike the 800-mile Arizona Trail, which spans from the U.S. – Mexico Border in Cochise County to Utah. Planning to hike it in segments in the months ahead, today she led members of Cochise County on a 3.6-mile kick off hike at the start of the Arizona […]

The Daily Sun Celebrate National Public Lands Day Saturday with free admission to national and state parks and monuments and a long list of volunteer opportunities across the region. National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest, single-day volunteer effort for public lands. [To read the rest of this article, click here.]

Verde Independent On September 23, 2017, Magdalena Romanska, owner of the Be Fit Fit in VOC, completed the 55km (34 mile) Flagstaff to Grand Canyon Stagecoach Line Race. On the race day, the foothills of Snowbowl (the starting point) experienced below-freezing temperatures. Over the course of the day, they morphed into a great, sunny, “just right temps” race day, with […]

The Daily Sun A section of the Arizona Trail in Flagstaff recently benefited from the attention of volunteers. Natural Restorations, a non-profit conservation organization, hosted a cleanup event along the Arizona Trail and the areas surrounding the Arizona Trail behind Mary’s Cafe in Flagstaff on Sunday, Sept. 10. [To read the rest of this article, click here.]

The Daily Sun Ask A Ranger Sabrina: When winter grips the high snowy north, hikers seeking warmer trails look to the desert climate of southern Arizona. My recommended hike features stunning views, Sonoran Desert flora and a lush riparian corridor along the Gila River Canyons Passage of the Arizona Trail. [To read the rest of this article, click here.]

The Daily Sun The Arizona Trail Association’s Seeds of Stewardship program has announced the receipt of a grant from Recreational Equipment Inc. to launch Gear Girls, a girls-only club that uses mountain biking, trail work and snowsports to build confidence, outdoor competence, character and community in young women grades 4-8. [To read the rest of this article, click here.]  

The Daily Sun Jack Welch We parked on the corner of Izabel and Sixth Avenue and used the Sego Lily section of our urban trail system to climb up to the Arizona Trail on McMillan Mesa. Don Carter and I lead walks from the Adult Center and had decided to view the partial eclipse of the sun from that elevated […]

Payson Roundup Alexis Bechman It is the largest trails project in Arizona history, running the length of the state from Mexico to Utah, and planners are now working to preserve and protect the Arizona Trail and make it a destination in Rim Country. The 800-mile trail passes just west of Payson, hugging the rugged Mazatzal Mountains to the south, past […]

The Daily Sun Emory Cowan The 800-mile-long Arizona Trail that spans the length of the state is getting a new level of management. It will come in the form of a comprehensive plan aimed at better protecting and preserving the trail’s resources, whether they are located on federal, state, county, municipal or private land. Federal agencies released an initial draft […]

The Daily Sun Natural Restorations, a nonprofit organization sponsored by the Arizona Trail Association, works to remove trash, graffiti and anything foreign to the environment from outdoor recreation and wilderness areas across the state. The organization provides hands-on service learning opportunities for youth and adult volunteers and also provides contract work to military veterans on a five-member Dedicated Restoration Team. […]

Navajo-Hopi Observer Stan Bindell One joy of going to Jacob Lake in the past was the lake where you could go fishing or take a quick swim. Or at least it used to be. One of the reasons my hiking buddy, grandson Nick Basham, wanted to go the north rim of the Grand Canyon was to enjoy the lake. The […]

KJZZ Stina Sieg The U.S. Forest Service is looking for input on a long-distance trail that runs through the rugged center of the state. The Arizona Trail spans 800 miles, from Mexico to Utah. The Arizona Trail was completed in 2011, and now the forest service is creating a comprehensive plan for its future. [To read the rest of this […]

TrailMeister.com Ride along with TrailMeister as we venture out from the Picketpost Trailhead onto the Arizona Trail with members of the East Valley Back Country Horsemen, Arizona Horse Council, and the Superstition Horsemen’s Association. [To read the rest of this article, click here.]

The Daily Sun Andrea Michaels East of the Buffalo Park parking lot, along a path that stretches south to Mexico and north to Utah, there stands a large metal trailhead tribute to Dale Shewalter. Dale was the Flagstaff visionary, teacher, geologist, cyclist, equestrian, hiker, runner, and adventurer whose persistence and leadership in pursuit of his vision produced a gem among […]

The Daily Sun There’s a wealth of new map and app tools designed to enhance your enjoyment and ease of hiking the trails of the Coconino National Forest (CNF) and local passages of the Arizona National Scenic Trail (AZNST). This season the Interpretive Partnership will feature several CNF trails and AZNST passages in our columns and on our public hikes. […]

Outdoor Industry Association Shauna Farnell If you’ve ever visited Arizona’s Sonoran Desert or Ironwood Forest, you know they’re magical landscapes. They are part of the area marking the globe’s only home for the saguaro cactus. Each unique in its stoic pose, saguaros arms can take 100 years or more to grow. The Native American Tohono O’odham tribe believes every saguaro […]

Huffington Post James Orndorf Tucked far away from the noise of the world, adjacent to very little and convenient to almost nothing (an enviable amount of nothing and very little), the Coronado National Memorial sits along the border with Mexico in southeastern Arizona, just over 200 miles from Phoenix. The site was designated the Coronado International Memorial on August 18, […]

Seward City News Kelley Lane The Arizona National Scenic Trail had been on our radar since 2014, when I met a fellow hiker who had completed it a few years earlier. “You’ll have to rent a car partway through, buy water and then drive around to cache it for yourself,” said Brian Adams, who was hiking the Pacific Crest Trail […]

KVOA.com Alyx Dote A high school senior hiked 800 miles alone to raise money for charity. Brady Maghran, 17, is a student at BASIS Oro Valley. As part of his senior project, he hiked the Arizona Trail by himself to benefit the Southern Arizona Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. [To read the rest of this article, click here.]

LakePowellLife.com Mike Reilley The Page Library recently hosted a talk about the Arizona National Scenic Trail. The speaker was Sirena Dufault, a writer, public speaker and a woman who often speaks about the trail throughout Arizona. Her appearance was part of the Glen Canyon Lecture Series. A native of the Midwest, Dufault captivated her audience with stories about specific historic […]

Payson Roundup A woman had to be carried off the Arizona Trail last week after she fell and broke her leg at a low-water crossing. The 70-year-old woman was hiking the Arizona Trail Thursday, April 27, approximately four miles north of the Rim Road (Forest Service Road 300), 13 miles east of State Route 87, when she slipped on wet […]

CopperArea.com Mila Besich-Lira Over the past decade more and more attention has been given to the Arizona Trail. The 800 mile trail that travels from Arizona’s southern border with Mexico goes through the entire Copper Corridor before it makes it way through northern Arizona and the Grand Canyon before it reaches the Utah border. As the popularity of the trail […]

Sierra Magazine Jason Mark To the north, at the edge of sight, there’s a giant wall of rock stretching east to west across the horizon, a ridge erupting out of the otherwise unbroken sweep of ponderosa pine forest. From my vantage, it looks like an impenetrable cliff. But I’ve got a map, so I know better. [To read the rest […]