Cabin Loop - Mogollon Rim Photoset • chumley • 2025-06-14 • HikeArizona.COM

Cabin Loop - Mogollon Rim, AZ

	2025-06-14
	10 by chumley

Cabin Loop - Mogollon Rim

Payson, AZ

Cabin Loop - Mogollon Rim

Payson, AZ

Hiking	15.11 Miles	1,555 AEG

Hiking	15.11 Miles	6 Hrs 20 Mns	2.95 mph
	1,555 ft AEG	1 Hour 13 Mns Break

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Houston Brothers Trail #171

Fred Haught Trail #141

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BiFrost

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Pre-note: The area of this hike is eligible to be sold by the USFS for private development. If you are unaware of this current proposal, read more about it here: [ Congress proposes selling USFS land ... d homes ]

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I was in the mood for some actual trail miles at cooler elevations and the magic 8-ball determined this would be the answer.

We left a car with the General and Cletus'd our way a few miles down the rim road. The southern 3 miles of HouBros had quite a bit of deadfall that is in need of a chainsaw. And not the little 18-incher you can buy at home depot either. The rest of the loop was in fine shape. We passed 4 sets of other hikers on the day, all of which appeared to be backpacking, though only one group was actually set up for the night with tents near Pinchot Cabin.

Plenty of water most of the way in Houston Draw, some at the Bear Canyon Crossing, and intermittent pools all along Fred Haught. Lots of nice green grass making mid-June look lush up here.

	Aspen Spring	Quart per minute	Quart per minute
	Nice cold flow from the spring cave

Box Canyon

Dry

	Fred Haught Canyon	Pools to trickle	Pools to trickle
	Intermittent pools. Not a lot of flow so water is turbid.

	Fred Haught Spring	Dripping	Dripping
	Some pools in the drainage.

	General Springs	Quart per minute	Quart per minute
	Plenty of pools in the drainage. No flow so a little unappealing.

	Houston Draw Head	Dripping	Dripping
	Plenty of surface water at the seep

	Little Hart Spring and Creek	Dripping	Dripping
	Light trickle in the drainage

	Pinchot Spring	Quart per minute	Quart per minute
	Cold clean flow from spring and plenty of pools in the drainage.

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