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Your Complete Guide to the Arizona National Scenic Trail
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About Your Complete Guide To The Arizona National Scenic
Product Description Explore every part of the Arizona National Scenic Trail with this ultimate resource, detailing the trail's twists and turns, its flora and fauna, geology, water sources, and nearby gateway communities. In an easy-to-use format, Your Complete Guide to the Arizona National Scenic Trail features the 800-mile trail, section by section (43 passages altogether) so that day-hikers, thru-hikers, mountain bikers, runners, and equestrians can feel confident about finding the trailheads, navigating the route, and connecting with the awe-inspiring landscape like never before. Inspired by the magnificence of the scenery, wildlife, and diversity of terrain, this new book is an irreplaceable source for everyone interested in the Arizona National Scenic Trail. From the Author Arizona evokes images of breathtaking landscapes, exotic animals, star-filled skies, and dramatic sunsets. Even for those who have never traveled through this wild part of the West, the very concept of the place suggests mystery, beauty, and allure. Glancing at a map of the state reveals an abundance of national forests, national parks, Native American reservations, and huge tracts of land free of roads, cities, or any semipermanent footprint of modern society. From rolling grasslands and lush Sonoran Desert to alpine peaks and one of the world's deepest canyons, it is a land of biodiversity unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is Arizona. And through its wild heart runs a single trail--an 800-plus-mile path from Mexico to Utah that links mountains, deserts, forests, canyons, rivers, communities, and people. This is the Arizona National Scenic Trail (AZT). One of only 11 National Scenic Trails in the country, and only the third to be completed, the AZT beckons the adventurous at heart to explore the more remote and unknown regions of the state. But it also winds through the Grand Canyon, Saguaro National Park, and other famous natural wonders. Just because there is a trail through the entire state does not mean it's easily accessible every step of the way. While trailheads and signs exist, the AZT experience is intended to be a personal encounter with nature on its own terms. Unlike other long-distance trails, the AZT offers the possibility of your going for days without seeing humans other than your own companions. Many miles unfold between resupply services on some AZT passages. In fact, you might even forget that "civilization" exists. What you will need on this journey in the Grand Canyon State is a reliable guidebook, especially if you want to get to know Arizona a little more intimately. And now you have it--Your Complete Guide to the Arizona National Scenic Trail. Whether you plan to attempt the entire AZT in one crossing or, like most trail enthusiasts, will spend the next decade section-hiking (or section-biking or section-horseback-riding) the trail one passage at a time, this book will help you plan and navigate appropriately. We also created it to inform, entertain, and inspire you. Directions in these pages will lead you to trailheads, water sources, and the twists and turns you will need to stay on the trail and keep from getting lost. You'll also find profiles on Gateway Communities--the small towns near the trail where you can make segues to basic supplies (such as Advil and peanut butter) and sustenance and services (Mexican food and massage therapy, for instance). We've also included information about Arizona's geology and botany. The more you learn about the forces that shaped this wild landscape and the organisms that have adapted to live here, the more you'll become enamored with Arizona. Most of all, we hope you enjoy the AZT. And in the words of the late, great Edward Abbey (as he wrote in Desert Solitaire), "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view . . . where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange an
