Crosscut Trail - South Mountain, AZ

Overview
Much of this trail is used for trail rides leaving from the stables by the park entrance. The first mile is in a sandy wash. As such, it's not a great walking route until it crosses the main park road, where the horses are mostly left behind.


Hike
After parking near Scorpion Gulch at the park entrance, walk through the ruins and down the wash embankment behind the old buildings. Turn right in the wash and stay in the wash for about 0.7 miles. Watch for a sharp left into a small side canyon, which takes you up out of the wash onto higher ground.In 0.1 mile, you will intersect a connector trail that makes a sharp left back toward the Las Lomitas Trail. In another 0.1 mile, you will encounter a couple of corrals and a parking lot, and the trailhead for the Ranger Trail. Here, the Crosscut Trail makes a sharp right and heads across the main park road.

Just after the park road, the trail turns left, briefly coincident with the Max Delta Trail, and then turns right up the hill toward the Big Ramada, where it passes the trailhead for the Ma-Ha-Tuak Perimeter Trail heading off toward the 19th Ave. Trailhead. The route continues up the end of the Ma-Ha-Tuak range and intersects the Hua'Pal Loop Trail (Formerly T-Bone Loop), another way to the 19th Ave. parking. Turning left and down the hill, the trail again intersects the Max Delta Trail, where the Crosscut Trail ends.

2026-02-14 GrangerGuy