Easy Hiking Treks
An easy hike usually follows established trails with trip length less than 5 miles and a time less than 3 hours not counting travel to and from the trailhead. Some beginning hikers may find the elevation gain or length more strenuous than they expected.
Keyhole Arch
Rated 1.0
3.0 miles (3 hours)
Elevation = +500 ft.
A casual hike through the Sonoran Desert observing some old mines and tailings in the Goldfield mining district. Wonderful panoramic views of the Superstitions - Goldfields, and Four Peaks mountains. The hike also highlights a view of Keyhole Arch - a little known and seldom visited natural Arch, the Green Thumb, and lichen covered rock outcropping.
Parker Pass
Rated 1.5
6.0 miles (4 hours)
Elevation = +600 ft.
A great beginners sampler hike in the Superstition Wilderness. All trail walking with mild climbs in elevation offering a glimpse of Four Peaks, Black Mesa, Boulder Canyon and Weaver's Needle from the north side. If you have any adventure spirit, you will want more after this hike.
Massacre Grounds
Rated 2.0
6.0 miles (4 hours)
Elevation = +800 ft.
A bit more elevation, this hike takes you to the sacred grounds of a notorious battle between Mexican miners and Indians which occurred in 1848. Trapped at the point of no return, several Mexicans met their maker at the hands of the Apache on this spectacular mountain top offering expansive views of the Superstitions and Four Peaks.
Hackberry Spring Loop
Rated 2.0
6.0 miles (4 hours)
Elevation = +800 ft.
A wonderful trail demonstrating the extremes of topography in the Superstition Wilderness. Garden Valley is the first destination with ruins of an ancient Indian culture evident, and if you look hard enough you can still find pottery shards in the area. Watch out for that cholla as you proceed down a beautiful canyon past an old mine and eventually an old creek bed. There is some mild climbing in the creek on, over, and around some house sized boulders. You will see a crested saguaro and running spring in the desert.
The Petroglyphs
Rated 2.0
4.0 miles (4 hours)
Elevation = +560 ft.
A well defined trail with some minor climbing over rocks at the end of the trail to some wonderful ancient Indian petroglyphs on rock outcroppings surrounded by water pools most times of the year. A spectacular hike to observe wildflowers in the Sonoran springtime.
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