There's something about the desert that keeps calling me back. After seven decades of exploring the American Southwest, you'd think I'd have seen it all. But that's the magic of these lands – they're always revealing new secrets to those patient enough to look....

Hiking the Mohave Desert: A Journey to Old Wagon Trail Ranch

Our daily, well almost daily 4 to 5 times a week, 4 mile walk at Casa Codorniz. We follow the Old Wagon Trail to the Old Cowboy Ranch House then Burro and 4 wheeler trails back. Our house sits on the Old Wagon Trail. In fact our driveway lies directly on the trail....

Off and on rain finally turned more off than on so we cust our Many Pools Trail hike short. While it lasted it was very pretty. Many Pools Trail is a 2.3 mile heavily trafficked out and back trail located near Springdale, Utah that features beautiful wild flowers and...

Normally very heavily trafficked we were lucky to have the trail to ourselves this chilly December 2021 morning. Named after the Paiute word for "bubbling water," the Pa'rus Trail is one of the most accessible trails along the Virgin River in Zion National Park. A...

The Black Mountains of northwest Arizona are an extensive, mostly linear, north-south trending 75 miles long mountain range. It forms the north-south border of southwest Mohave County as it borders the eastern shore of the south-flowing Colorado River from Hoover Dam....

Trail, now mostly paved and improved gravel, from Bullhead City, Arizona to a ranch in the Black Mountains of Mohave County. Mohave County is in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2010 census, its population was 200,186. The county seat is...

A lush garden-like forest of Saguaro near Yucca, Arizona. The saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) is one of the defining plants of the Sonoran Desert. These plants are large, tree-like columnar cacti that develop branches (or arms) as they age, although some never...

The Riverwalk Exploration Trail parallels the western shore of the Colorado River along the Nevada/Arizona border. It travels through a desert habitat and connects a busy resort area at its southern end with the Pyramid Canyon Day Use Area at its northern end. The...

Several miles of Laughlin’s northern Colorado River front are transformed into a recreational paradise known as the North Reach Trails. A trails system offering a variety of walks and hikes, practical fishing nodes and a fully appointed day-use park, with Davis Dam as...