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| Distance One Way |
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4.25 miles |
| Trailhead Elevation |
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8,700 feet |
| Elevation Gain |
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2,369 feet |
| Accumulated Gain |
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2,460 feet |
| Avg Time One Way |
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2 hours |
| Kokopelli Seeds |
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12.45 |
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Official Route
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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4.26 mi
2,378 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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12.43 mi
3,137 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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10.72 mi
10,331 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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9.3 mi
2,401 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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8.61 mi
2,486 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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6.61 mi
1,529 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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10.55 mi
3,291 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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6.76 mi
1,228 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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6.02 mi
30 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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5.95 mi
1,320 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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5.61 mi
1,158 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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11.1 mi
2,338 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail #29
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3.7 mi
2,352 ft |
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| 11 unofficial routes |
| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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16.47 mi
4,669 ft |
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| Lockett Meadow - Waterline Loop
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4.87 mi
828 ft |
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| Agassiz from Inner Basin
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13.77 mi
3,948 ft |
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| Inner Basin Loop
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9.43 mi
2,133 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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16.32 mi
4,727 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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16.14 mi
4,655 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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16.24 mi
4,652 ft |
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| Inner Basin Waterline Trail
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13.26 mi
2,003 ft |
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| San Francisco Peaks Loop
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13.78 mi
4,917 ft |
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| Inner Basin Waterline
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7.19 mi
1,864 ft |
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| Inner Basin Waterline
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14.72 mi
2,146 ft |
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| Rees & Abineau via Lockett Meadow
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15.43 mi
4,390 ft |
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| Rees & Abineau via Lockett Meadow
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15.56 mi
4,350 ft |
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| Rees & Abineau via Lockett Meadow
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14.42 mi
4,208 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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15.91 mi
4,515 ft |
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| Fremont & Doyle Peaks
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11.94 mi
4,446 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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17.22 mi
4,695 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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16.95 mi
4,844 ft |
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| Doyle & Fremont Partial Horseshoe
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18.14 mi
5,706 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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15 mi
4,694 ft |
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| Snowslide Spring via Inner Basin
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9.75 mi
2,774 ft |
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| Fremont & Doyle Peaks
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15.22 mi
4,547 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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15.92 mi
4,630 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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15.04 mi
4,300 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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16.66 mi
4,859 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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16.69 mi
4,672 ft |
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| Inner Basin Cirque Hike
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9.16 mi
2,752 ft |
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| Inner Basin Cirque Plus
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13.4 mi
3,882 ft |
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| Inner Basin Cirque Plus
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23.13 mi
6,439 ft |
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| Inner Basin Trail
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10.76 mi
2,680 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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15.88 mi
4,544 ft |
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| Bear Jaw - Abineau loop v Lockett Meadow
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16.89 mi
3,253 ft |
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| Bear Jaw - Abineau from Lockett Meadow
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16.53 mi
3,129 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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16.06 mi
4,623 ft |
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| Inner Basin #29 - Doyle Saddle
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11.55 mi
2,678 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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16.06 mi
4,619 ft |
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| Inner Basin Loop via FR552
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10.33 mi
1,768 ft |
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| Humphreys via FR552 Gate
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21.93 mi
5,566 ft |
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| Humphreys via Inner Basin
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14.44 mi
4,704 ft |
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| Meadow Turnaround
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2.17 mi
1,184 ft |
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same trailhead
| | | | Doyle Peak
same trailhead
| |  | | Humphreys via Inner Basin
same trailhead
| |  | | Inner Basin Cirque Hike
same trailhead
| |  | | Inner Basin to Doyle Peak
same trailhead
| |  | | Rees Peak
same trailhead
| |  | | Snowslide Spring via Inner Basin
same trailhead
| |  | | Sugarloaf Mtn - Flagstaff
0.2 mi away
| |  | | Humphreys Shuttle - Lockett Meadow to Snowbowl
0.4 mi away
| | | | Schultz Peak
2.9 mi away
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| Fauna |
Nearby |
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Atlantis Fritillary Butterfly |
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Honey Bee |
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Mourning Cloak Butterfly |
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Mule Deer |
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Riding's Forester |
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Satyr Comma |
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Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly |
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Unidentified Butterfly |
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Weidemeyer's Admiral Butterfly |
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Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly |
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White-tailed Antelope Squirrel |
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| Flora |
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Arizona Honeysuckle |
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Arizona Pea |
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Arizona Thistle |
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Bristlecone Pine |
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Common Sunflower |
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Douglas-Fir |
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Engelmann Spruce |
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Fleabane |
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Fly Agaric Mushroom |
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Golden-Beard Penstemon |
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Green gentian |
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Groundsel (macdougalii) |
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Mountain Parsley |
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Orange Agoseris |
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Parry's Primrose |
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Ponderosa Pine |
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Quaking Aspen |
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Richardsons Geranium |
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Silverstem Lupine |
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Spotted Coral Root |
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Subalpine / Corkbark Fir |
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The Sickener |
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Unidentified Mushroom or Fungi |
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Western Sneezeweed |
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Wild Strawberry |
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Witches' Butter |
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Yellow Columbine |
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| Meteorology |
Nearby |
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Autumn - Color Foliage |
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Forecast |
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Hail |
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Snow |
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Sunburst |
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| Named place |
Nearby |
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Abineau Peak |
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Agassiz Peak |
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Doyle Peak |
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Doyle Saddle |
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Elden Mountain |
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Fremont Peak |
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Fremont Saddle |
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Humphreys Peak |
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Humphreys Saddle - Kachina Peaks |
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Inner Basin |
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Kachina Peaks Wilderness |
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Little Elden Mountain |
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Locket Meadow Tank |
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Lockett Meadow |
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Lockett Meadow Spring |
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O'Leary Peak |
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Rees Peak |
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San Francisco Mountains - Kachina Peaks Wilderness |
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San Francisco Peaks Natural Area |
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Snowslide Spring |
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Sunset Crater |
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Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument |
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| Culture |
Nearby |
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Automobile Remains/Wreckage |
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Intrepid Back Shot |
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Snoozing Home |
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Trash Hauled Out |
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Wooden Dwelling |
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Note
Course of trail changed somewhere around 2010 - 2012. Description below reflects old alignment. Check the official route for your hike. History
Originally known as Interior Valley and was once noted for its continually flowing springs. A disastrous fire in 1876 destroyed its splendid stand of Engelmann spuce, with the probable result that the springs are now intermittent. This is Probably one of the prettiest hikes in the Flagstaff Area. It starts in Locket Meadow and ends up in the Inner Basin. This is the only place in Arizona you will be completely surrounded by mountains. It really feels like a 'Little Colorado.'
The Inner Basin is the middle of the crater of San Francisco Mtn, Arizona's only Stratovolcano. Surrounding you is Arizona's 6 highest points, and 4 highest mountains. As you enter the Inner Basin, from right to left you have Rees Peak (11,474 feet), Aubineau Peak(11,878 feet), Humphreys Peak(12,633 feet), Agassiz Peak (12,356 feet), Fremont Peak, (11,969 feet) and Doyle Peak (11,460 feet). Rees Peak and Aubineau peak are not real Peaks, just named high points on Humphreys ridge. This is the only place in Arizona that mountains higher than 11,000 feet completely surround you.
Old Trail
The trail you are on is an old forest service road. Only certain vehicles are allowed up this road. Horses and Bikes are allowed.
The hike in is a steady but easy climb the whole way. Thick forests surround you. The forest is a mix of firtrees and aspens. The ground is covered in ferns and grass. There is not one place you can see where you're going. There are no views until you reach the Inner Basin. If you hike when there is snowmelt, the spring is running, which adds to the beauty. In the fall the aspens are changing colors which makes for a photographers paradise.
New Trail
This is the most beautiful hike through aspen in Arizona for 1.7 miles. Then you merge into the old alignment which is a maintenance road. Even most of the die hard "I won't hike a road" snobs will be taken away by the beautiful scenery. Around 3.95 mi the road fades into a trail. The final 0.3 mi is a steep set of switchbacks up to the Weatherford Trail.
Note
Camping is not allowed in the Inner Basin
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FR22 Car Camping area related
Kachina Peaks Map  area related area related
100 Classic Hikes - 2007
Coconino FS Reports The San Francisco Peaks are actually the remains of an extinct volcano. Millions of years ago this great mountain was shattered by an explosion similar to the one that devastated Washington's Mt. Saint Helens in 1980. Inside the now quiet caldera a lush alpine environment has blurred evidence of that cataclysmic event.
The trail into the heart of the ancient volcano begins in beautiful Lockett Meadow. From this island of emerald ringed with aspens and high peaks it follows a primitive road into the mountain's now quiet Inner Basin and then connects to the Weatherford trail. Here, extensive stands of aspens cover the steep slopes of the old caldera coloring them solid gold in early fall. In spring and summer, wildflowers add a sprinkling of blue, red and yellow. From the basin's rims, avalanche tracks streak down the talus slopes and remnants of old lava flows bear witness to the mountain's cataclysmic heritage.
Snow may remain here even into summer. Cross-country skiers continue to ski as late as June in some years. Hiking is the most popular way of visiting this beautiful and unique environment; however, and hikers begin coming to the basin before the snows have completely melted from the trail.
Animals you may see in this high country include porcupine and elk. Black bears have been known to stroll right through groups of picnickers without so much as a glance at their lunches. The hermit thrush sings his best here. The climb to this high mountain place, where spring comes late and fall arrives early, is moderate but steady, but the reward is worth every bit of the effort. 
One-Way NoticeThis hike is listed as One-Way. When hiking 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. |
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