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| Distance Round Trip |
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5.25 miles |
| Trailhead Elevation |
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2,300 feet |
| Elevation Gain |
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-226 feet |
| Accumulated Gain |
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660 feet |
| Avg Time Round Trip |
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2.5-3 hours |
| Kokopelli Seeds |
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8.55 |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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Grasshopper |
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5.27 mi
548 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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5.41 mi
582 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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5.65 mi
628 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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5.27 mi
580 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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9.46 mi
897 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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5.45 mi
811 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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6.35 mi
613 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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6.36 mi
891 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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5.97 mi
692 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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9.34 mi
1,210 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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5.61 mi
576 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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5.19 mi
740 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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5.86 mi
563 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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7.24 mi
692 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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7.2 mi
963 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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6.27 mi
748 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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6.84 mi
723 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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5.87 mi
840 ft |
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| Garden Valley Loop
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4.79 mi
545 ft |
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| 18 unofficial routes |
| Second Water Canyon
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9.57 mi
1,537 ft |
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| Garden Valley Hackberry Spring
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11.75 mi
1,283 ft |
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| Hackberry Spring Explore
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9.03 mi
1,042 ft |
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| Garden Valley Black Mesa Loop
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13.75 mi
1,962 ft |
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| Hackberry - Garden Valley Figure 8
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6.75 mi
723 ft |
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| Battleship Mountain - Superstitions
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13.09 mi
2,485 ft |
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| Hackberry Creeks n Peaks Super Loop
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14.77 mi
2,750 ft |
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| Hackberry Spring Loop
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6.48 mi
537 ft |
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| Hackberry Spring Loop
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5.88 mi
618 ft |
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| Hackberry Spring Loop
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5.66 mi
573 ft |
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| |  | | Battleship Mountain - Superstitions
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| |  | | Black Mesa Loop - Superstition Mtns
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| |  | | Black Top Mesa
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| |  | | Charlebois from First Water TH
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| |  | | First Water TH to Canyon Lake
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| |  | | First Water TH to Peralta TH
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| |  | | First Water Upper Creek Loop
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| |  | | Hackberry Spring Loop
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| |  | | Marsh Valley Loop
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| Fauna |
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American Kestrel |
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Black-necked Garter Snake |
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Cactus Wren |
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Coatimundi |
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Desert Tortoise |
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Eastern Collared Lizard |
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Empress Leilia Butterfly |
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Gila Monster |
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Gray Fox |
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Great Purple Hairstreak |
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Greater earless lizard |
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Greater Roadrunner |
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Honey Bee |
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Javelina |
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Kingsnake |
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Queen Butterfly |
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Red Spotted Toad |
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Ring-necked Snake |
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Rock Squirrel |
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Sleepy Orange |
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Tarantula |
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Tarantula Hawk |
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Wasp |
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Western Diamondback Rattlesnake |
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| Flora |
Nearby |
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African Daisy |
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Amsonia |
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Arizona Penstemon |
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Brittlebush |
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Brittlebush |
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Chain Fruit Cholla |
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Chinchweed |
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Christmas Cholla |
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Desert Globemallow |
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Desert Marigold |
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Desert Senna |
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Desert Wishbone Bush |
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Fleabane |
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Goldeneye |
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Hopbush |
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Jumping cholla |
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Mexican Gold Poppy |
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Owl Clover |
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Palafox |
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Parry Dalea |
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Prickly Pear |
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Saguaro |
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Shrub live oak |
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Slender Janusia |
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Staghorn Cholla |
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Strawberry Hedgehog |
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Teddy Bear Cholla |
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Trans-Pecos morning-glory |
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Triangle Bursage |
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Wright's beebrush |
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Yellow Monkey Flower |
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| Meteorology |
Nearby |
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Moon |
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Rainbow |
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Sun Dog |
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Sunrise |
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| Named place |
Nearby |
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Black Mesa |
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First Water Creek |
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First Water Creek at Second Water Trail #236 |
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First Water Ranch |
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Four Peaks |
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Garden Valley |
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Geronimo Head |
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Hackberry Mesa |
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Hackberry Spring |
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Little Four Peaks |
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Superstition Wilderness - West |
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The Flatiron |
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Weavers Needle |
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| Culture |
Nearby |
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Aircraft |
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Campsite |
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Informational/Interpretive Trail Sign |
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Mine Shaft |
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Trail Signs and Markings |
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Trash Hauled Out |
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 Walk about 0.3 miles down a dirt road to the Dutchman's/Second Water Trail. Take the Second Water Trail east (left). Cross First Water Creek bed (which will most likely be dry) and continue on well-marked trail to Garden Valley. No route finding skills are necessary on this trail, and most hikers will enjoy the rock and sometimes boulder filled paths. You will have no doubt you've arrived in Garden Valley because the entire area is flat and covered with mesquite trees and chain fruit cholla cactus. In the middle of the Valley, you will come to the intersection of Second Water Trail/Black Mesa Trail. Just past the sign, you will see a mound of rocks, overgrown with grass and palo verde trees. This is the ruins of a prehistoric stone house, and the place where you can find red pottery shards and metates (grinding holes) in the rock floor. From here you can take the unmarked horse trail continuing west to Hackberry Spring. Look toward the hillside when you get below the trail and the ravine to see evidence of old mine diggings. There are alternate return routes you can take, but we did this as an out and back. It's surprising how much beauty you find you missed when you're heading downhill. |
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