"Circuit Hikes of Southern Arizona" is an easy-to-use guidebook, describing the many circuit hikes hidden in the mountains surrounding Tucson and throughout southern Arizona.<br><br>The guide includes 32 specific hikes with an additional two dozen options, with hikes ranging from so easy you can take your toddlers to so strenuous you will want to train for weeks beforehand. Each hike comes with an easy-to-read topo map, as well as detailed instructions for route-finding. The guide also provides information about the best seasons to do each hike as well as general information about the history and geology of the surrounding mountains.<br><br>The guide not only includes some of the best known circuit hikes of southern Arizona, it also includes a number of previously unpublished trails that take you to places rarely seen by most hikers.<br><br>The author, Robert Zimmerman, is an award-winning science journalist and space historian who likes to spend his weekends hiking, caving, and in general exploring the hidden outdoor gems of the American southwest.
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Robert Zimmerman. Circuit Hikes of Southern Arizona
Tucson Mountains
1 – Belmont Road
2 – Picture Rocks
3 – Gates Pass Loop
4 – Orcut Dam
5 – Brown Mountain
6 – Wasson Mountain
7 – Tucson Mountains Mine Loop
8 – Signal Hill
9 – Black Sheep Canyon
Tortolita Mountains
10 – Wild Burro Canyon
Santa Catalina Mountains
11 – Wilderness of Rocks
12 – Aspen Loop
13 – Red Ridge/Oracle Ridge
14 – Mint Spring/Marshall Gulch
15 – Butterfly Loop
16 – Mount Kimball
17 – Blacketts Ridge
18 – Sabino Canyon/Bear Canyon
Rincon Mountains. 19 – Saguaro National Park East
Santa Rita Mountains
20 – Rogers Rock
21 – Josephine Saddle
22 – Jack Mountain
23 – Mount Wrightson
24 – Gardner and Cave Canyons
On the Periphery
25 – Kartchner Caverns
26 – Oversite and Ida Canyons
27 – Ramsey Canyon
28 – San Pedro House
29 – Murray Springs Clovis Site
30 – Millville/Petroglyph sites
31 – Fort Bowie
32 – Heart of Rocks
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This book would not have been possible without the endless willingness of my wife Diane to go with me to some obscure and sometimes not-so-enjoyable bushwhacks. I also must extend my thanks to Belinda Norby for her advice and help in locating some of the lesser known undocumented loops in this guide. Thanks also go to Randi Steiner and Diane for their willingness to test my directions so that future hikers will not be confused by them.
If you want to hike in southern Arizona, the following four books cover just about everything (except circuit hikes). Betty Leavenworth's Tucson Hiking Guide provides the best list of nearby Tucson hikes. Erik Molnar's Hiking Arizona's Cactus Country is more complete, but less detailed and includes many challenging routes that are off trail. Leonard Taylor's Trails of the Huachucas is the essential trail guide for exploring the Huachuca mountains, while The Santa Catalina Mountains, a guide to the trails and routes by Peter Cowgill and Eber Glendening (now sadly out of print) will tell you everything you need to know about the Santa Catalinas.
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In every case, however, check the weather before you head out so that you are aware of conditions at that time of year. In this matter the Boy Scouts are 100% right: Be prepared!
In that context I am required to give some very basic and essential advice about hiking in southern Arizona: Bring water. Wear a hat. Bring water. Use sunscreen. Bring water. Carry enough food. Bring water. Wear the proper hiking boots.
