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| Dandrea and Yankee Doodle Trails, AZ | |
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Dandrea and Yankee Doodle Trails, AZ
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| Hiking | 4.62 Miles |
1,069 AEG |
| | Hiking | 4.62 Miles | 2 Hrs 31 Mns | | 1.93 mph |
| 1,069 ft AEG | 7 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | The recorded route starts at a parking area on side of Walker Road and ends at the Yankee Doodle Trailhead on Snowdrift Mine Road*. It's about 2.8 miles from the end of the paved portion of Walker Road to Poacher Row and 0.4 mile along Poacher Row to the Dandrea Trailhead. There is parking on a circular drive next to the Dandrea Trailhead and two other areas along the last mile of Walker Road before reaching Poacher Row. On this route, after about 1.5 miles on roads, I reached the Dandrea Trailhead at the southeast end of Poacher Row in the Potato Patch cabins. The recorded route includes a wrong turn that followed a trail wide enough for a 2-wide ATV. After returning to Dandrea Trail, the route continues to the junction with Yankee Doodle Trail #284 near the top of Mount Davis.
*The HikeArizona map shows the north end of Yankee Doodle Trail #284 at Dandrea Trail #285. However, when I reached the junction of Dandrea Trail and Yankee Doodle Trail, I found that Yankee Doodle Trail went in two directions. The July 19, 2025 photoset includes a photo showing Trail #284 on the left heading east and Trail #285 continuing southeast from the junction. I separately uploaded the recorded route of the section of Yankee Doodle Trail from the trailhead on Snowdrift Mine Road to the junction with Dandrea Trail.
There's about 850 feet of elevation gain from the Dandrea Trailhead to the junction with Yankee Doodle Trail. Much of Dandrea Trail is rocky (see photo) as it follows alongside and sometimes in the bed of Hassayampa River headwaters. On July 19, 2025 there was a Hermit Thrush serenading me about halfway along Dandrea Trail, a little past the "back to #285" waypoint. The July 19, 2025 photoset also includes views from Yankee Doodle Trail shortly after the junction with Dandrea Trail and century plants along Yankee Doodle Trail. |
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Wildflowers Observation Isolated
aspen fleabane, common yarrow, goldenrod, upright blue beardtongue, Arizona thistle and century plant |
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