If you’re looking a short hike with good views and little elevation gain, here are three good ones to choose from. The trails are all within Coronado National Memorial at the southern end of the Huachuca Mountains.
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0:00 Start
1:10 Coronado Cave Trail
3:30 Coronado Peak Trail
6:22 Windmill Trail
6:45 Santa on the trail!
To get to Coronado National Memorial: Directions - Coronado National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov) The Arizona Trail (AZT) starts in the Memorial.
There’s parking for the Coronado Cave Trail about a quarter mile up the road from the Visitors Center. The trail is about a mile round trip with an elevation gain of 500’. Coronado Cave - Coronado National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
To get to the Coronado Peak Trail, continue up Montezuma Canyon Road about three miles past the Visitors Center. The trail is just under a mile round trip with a 300’ elevation gain. It's often very windy up there.
Windmill Trail is about a mile before the Visitors Center and is marked by a street sign about 25 yards from the fire danger sign. The windmill is visible from gate where the trail starts. The trail is two miles round trip with little elevation gain. The windmill is nice and creaky when the wind blows!
The dark, straight line you can see in the distance on the Coronado Peak and Windmill Trails is the border wall.
See the Coronado National Memorial website here Hiking - Coronado National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov) Or, pick up “Trails of the Huachucas,” by Leonard Taylor. In addition to directions to the trail and trail details, it provides some historical and geographical information that adds to your knowledge of this area. www.amazon.com/Trails-Huachuc... or agaveguides.com/ My plan is to hike all the trails listed in listed in the guide. It’s a sanity-saving project for 2020 that’s going to definitely extend into 2021. Getting outside when you can is the best thing to do in the worst year!
Next week’s hike: a few miles on Passages 2 and 3 of the Arizona Trail on Canelo Hills Trail West & East Trails just west of the Huachucas
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