Arizona Daily Sun by Larry Hendricks Last year, I hiked a bit of the Arizona Trail from the Walnut Meadows loop off Walnut Canyon Road to Fisher Point. Now that the snow has melted, I’m thinking about rehashing the hike for some training. Photographer Josh Biggs and I are slated to go to the South Rim and hike down South […]

GORP.com by Karen Berger “Thorns claw at my sun-burned skin, and no matter how hard I bash my way through the shrubs, rubbery branches spring back and grab my arms and legs. An astonishing variety of barbs, briars, and brambles latch on and cling to my clothes with a tenacity you wouldn’t expect of a plant. I’ve learned to recognize […]

Arizona Trail: Of All The Routes Along The Arizona Trail, Segment No. 34 In The San Francisco Peaks Is The Best Bet For Summer by Robert Stieve “Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, […]

Sunset Magazine by Dina Mishev It’s not just that the heaping plate of tacos I’m eating costs less than $4. Or that a local walked up to our table and offered his services as a hiking guide, free, simply for fun. It’s the honest-to-God niceness of everyone in the postage-stamp town of Superior, gateway to the Arizona Trail, which stretches […]

Sunset Magazine by Lawrence W. Cheek To know Arizona, you need to experience the Arizona Trail, a 720-mile scribble that bisects the state from Utah to Mexico. It meanders through ponderosa and aspen forests, plunges into the Grand Canyon and lesser-known chasms, lurches over mountains, and droops across the arroyo-crinkled Sonoran Desert. Ten percent of the trail remains to be […]