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| Hiking | 5.47 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 5.47 Miles | 2 Hrs 30 Mns | | 2.36 mph |
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| no partners | | Decided to visit the new park and do a few quick hikes. It was our first trip. We passed 1 solo hiker, and also saw a couple hikers one ridge over. Not a crowded place.
It was nice to hike some new trails, but they are all very short. My kid's input was that we were on a web of trails to basically nowhere, which is mostly true. It reminded me some of south mountain that way. We started on the stargazing trail. Not really on purpose, but there was a place to park and an interpretive sign. There were not really any signs on the road, we had to park to find that out. We took stargazing to Oro Vista loop where we enjoyed all the beautiful cacti! And the longhorn down below. The con is you are hiking directly above Peralta road which has a lot of traffic. After finishing that loop, we took stargazing over to saguaro loop. We hiked that clockwise over to desperado. The trails are all well signed, but it is interesting to note that the connectors (to other trails, campgrounds, parking lots) are all just labeled generically as "trail". Hopefully they will get more descriptive names in the future, otherwise I'm not sure what the point is of labeling them at all.
We took desperado to north star trail. This was the highlight of the hiking series. Some nice views at the top including the two saguaros with crested arms. The view of the Peralta park from above is a bit sad, as really it looks like a bunch of new roads in the desert.
We headed back the way we came mostly, except my kids decided to check out a fenced off mine shaft just off the connector from the bottom of the saguaro loop. We then took the road back to our car at the stargazing Trailhead. I will say the stargazing node is kind of a neat structure.
A nice way to spend a few hours. I love the glorious smell of the desert after rain. |
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