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| Hiking | 3.58 Miles |
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| no partners | | I've been out to the Picacho Petroglyph main site before, but after reading a post listing four more sites in the area I had to go again. Had a great time too, other than getting offtrack and using a jeep-trail to get back to my car that unfortunately instead took me across the saddle of two hills and way offtrack. I ended up hiking about 6.5 miles in all, but it was a beautiful day and just right temperature-wise, so I'm not sorry.
This is a very easy area for a beginning hiker-- mostly flat except for the boulder hills, outstanding desert scenery even in the winter, plenty of wildlife (I smelled javalina and saw tons of their tracks plus those of deer, birds and coyotes.) I only managed to get to the first three petroglyph sites but those were plenty; I've posted a few of the better photos.
If you're a newbie hiker, this'd be a fine place to start; parents with kids would have a good time with it as well, so long as they went in the cooler months. The posted directions are perfectly good, and I drove my little Dodge Caliber Hatchback out there with no trouble at all. Enjoy! Be sure to bring plenty of water. |
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