Here is a great shorter day hike, beginner backpack, or just a shorter backpack trip to some nice, and fairly remote campsites at the southeast/east end of 7300'elevation Mogollon Rim - Knoll Lake (a 77 acre electric motor boat only fishing/canoeing/kiaking lake).

This Babe Haught Trail#143 begins below the Mogollon Rim at the Tonto Fish Hatchery TH, so IF you follow my below directions to this alternate TH for the Babe Haught TR(on top of the Rim where it crosses Rim Road-FR300), you will cut-off ~2.7mls of the one way trail distance and most all of this trails' elevation gain for a sweet pay-off at the southeast end of scenic/fresh water Knoll Lake at GPS coordinates: N34.41831 W111.08952; There is one nice but less private campsite at this arrival waypoint, or a short hike on "use trails" further around the east end of the lake will offer 2-3 nicer and more remote backpacking campsites(with fire rings) to chose from.

Also, the ~1.5mls of cairned/marked and easy to follow trail through the large ponderosa pines (with 80% trail shade) and paralleling and crossing seasonal "Clear Creek" to this southeast end of Knoll Lake is a very plesant day hike or backpack.
One-Way Notice: This hike is listed as One-Way. When you hike several trails on a single "hike", log it with a generic name that describes the hike. Then link the trails traveled, check out the example.