Travel Hooray – Arizona Hiking: Sandy Seep Trail
SANDY SEEP TRAIL Sandy Seep Trail below east slopes of Elden Mtn Short, easy and scenic, the Sandy Seep Trail offers quick access to a network of routes on the … Read More
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Travel Hooray – Arizona Hiking: Little Horse Trail
LITTLE HORSE TRAIL Water pools in a drainage on Little Horse Trail When driving north on Interstate 17 toward Flagstaff, there comes a point when high-desert scrub gives way to … Read More
Travel Hooray – Arizona Hiking: Mormon Lake Lookout Site
MORMON LAKE LOOKOUT SITE Gate on Mormon Lake Lookout road There are few certainties in life, but one fixed reality is, things fall apart. Whether a star dying in a … Read More
Travel Hooray – Arizona Hiking: Sugarloaf Circuit
SUGARLOAF CIRCUIT Coffeepot Rock (left) from Sugarloaf Summit How sweet do you take your hikes; one lump or two? The choice is yours in Sedona’s North Urban Trails System. Chimney … Read More
Travel Hooray – Arizona Hiking: White Mesa Trail
WHITE MESA TRAIL The view from the top of White Mesa From the hyper popular Bell Trail, the imposing, vertical cliffs of White Mesa appear as an unsurmountable wall of … Read More
Travel Hooray – Arizona Hiking: Rover-Axis-Girdner Loop
ROVER-AXIS-GIRDNER LOOP Cockscomb seen from the new Rover Trail At first glance, the map of the Western Gateway trail system can be overwhelming. There are so many interconnected trails packed … Read More
Travel Hooray – A Quirky, Quite Place in Sedona
A QUIRKY, QUIET PLACE IN SEDONA Looking west from the trail. Serene, solitary walks in Arizona’s high desert are good for the soul. Even in times like these when conditions … Read More
Travel Hooray – Arizona Hiking: Corner Lake
CORNER LAKE Gate at the north end of Corner Lake points to Mormon Mtn. The lone coyote skulked among clumpy grasses and stunted trees barely 30 yards from the degraded … Read More
Travel Hooray – Arizona Hiking: Buck Mountain
BUCK MOUNTAIN Buck Mountain fire tower Remember 1973? The year was rife with high-tension world events, political controversy and noteworthy bright spots. There was the Watergate scandal and the resignation … Read More
Travel Hooray – Arizona Hiking: Interstate Trail
INTERSTATE TRAIL Canyon view point on Frog Tank Loop If there has been an upside to the global pandemic, it has been in discovering hiking destinations that are far from … Read More