![]() ![]() Depending on where you explore, you can also stay at some of Arizona’s best campgrounds. Hikes to each location vary from short strolls (Apache Falls) to those deep in the Grand Canyon (Ribbon Falls) requiring multi-day backpacking trips and months of advance planning. It’s not an exhaustive list, and we’ve purposely excluded the falls in Havasupai to focus on the Copper State’s lesser-known gems. Here’s a look at some of Arizona’s most popular falls accessible by hiking and backpacking. For this rat the finest of all music is the tinkle of seep water trickling into a tin cup, the periodic drip of unseen water drops falling in the shadows upon tympanic stone.” Edward Abbey, The Ancient Dust The rarity makes it precious, therefore lovable. “The desert rat loves water but prefers to live, like his four-footed cousin the kangaroo rat, where water is rare as radium. What remains offers plenty of watercourses to explore, and when we’re lucky, waterfalls. Many of those are seasonal and intermittent, and countless others have been permanently changed or lost by manmade diversions and dams. There’s something about a trail meandering through a clear creek, or the way summer’s first monsoon thunderheads roll over the valley that’s scarce and restorative.įortunately, Arizona has more than 100,000 miles of river, creek, and stream. ![]() Born and raised in Phoenix, I’ve grown a deep appreciation for the Sonoran Desert and its arid beauty.īut living among cactus and coyote also stirs an endless longing for water in the wild. ![]()
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