- Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness Area
- Good description from archives of Backpacker's Basecamp online magazine. This site has multiple links covering extensive information on this area. If you are thinking about hiking this area, be sure to check out the permits and fees page.
- Arizona Guide
- The author of this site obviously has a love afair with the Southwest. Well written descriptions of a dozen areas around Arizona are here. Each page has excellent landscape photographs which are thumbnailed.
- AZ National Forests
- Links to general descriptions of Arizona's National Forests. Writeups have addresses to Ranger stations in each forest.
- AZ National Wildlife Refuges
- Very brief information but does include addresses, phone numbers and directions to the refuges.
- AZ State Parks Home Page
- Virtual Tourist site has clickable map showing location of all parks. Descriptions are brief. Does list facilities available and phone numbers to call.
- AZ Wilderness Areas
- Very Brief writeups on all of Arizona's Wilderness Areas from the people at GORP.
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Best Of Tucson 1998, 1997,
1996 and 1995
- The Tucson Weekly has these "outdoors" best of pages which include Best Neighborhood Walk, Best Riparian Areas and Best Day Hike among others. See if you agree with them.
- BLM of Arizona - Outdoor Recreation
- Links to descriptions of some Bureau of Land Management Areas.
- Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
- Small description from Outside Online Magazine.
- Canyon de Chelly
- Article on what you can expect to find. Includes a rather insightful encounter with a Navajo who has plans to use the internet for his jewelry business, yet has no electricity. Brought to you by The Phoenix NewTimes' Mondo Arizona.
- City of Phoenix
on 8/10/03
- Links for each of the parks and preserves maintained by the City of Phoenix - includes Camelback Mountain, North Mountain (and Lookout Mountain), South Mountain, Squaw Peak (a.k.a Piestewa Peak), and Reach 11. Each link includes a basic hiking map, brief trail guide, and facts about the area.
- Climb On Top Of Phoenix
- Nice concise information on most of the peaks around Phoenix. Includes elevation, mention of a trail or two at each peak, and directions on how to get there.
- Desert Southwest National Forests
- Interactive map from GORP linking extensive writeups for each of the forests in Arizona and New Mexico. Links are provided for the Wilderness areas of these forests in each writeup.
- Discover Arizona State Parks
- General info available. Nice image map link showing location of parks around AZ. Individual links are slow. Utilizes Crescendo plug-in for Netscape.
- Hikercentral.com on 1/4/04
- Provides excellent data and information for the National Parks within Arizona. Below the links to the National Parks are links to other internet sites with hiking in Arizona.
- Kaibab National Forest
- Links provided to the 3 Ranger districts (Williams/Chalendar, Tusayan and North Kaibab) within this forest. Links also found here are excellent history and campground pages. Sponsored by the USDA Forest Service.
- LL Bean Park Search
- Use this search mechanism to find AZ parks with hiking available. Most parks have small write-ups.
- Maps of National Parks from The University of Texas at Austin Library
- Be patient as most of these are very large files. To find the Grand Canyon Maps from this library click here.
- Coronado National Forest Location Map (100K)
- Petrified Forest Location Map (16K)
- Petrified Forest Park Map (485K)
- Mesa Verde National Park
- A nice page. You won't find long hikes here, but this looks like a great place to take the family. Nice map links.
- National Park Service
- NPS's list of links to their pages on national parks in AZ. All have extensive but concise information.
- National Parks of Arizona
- A rather slick presentation of all the National Parks and Monuments in Arizona from the National Park Foundation.
- Nature Conservancy Preserves
- Descriptions of the Conservancy sites available in AZ. Mirror Site.
- Organ Pipe National Monument
- Excellent detailed information. Click on the parchment-like graphic on the left side of the page for specific details of this area. From Backpacker's Basecamp.
- Organ Pipe National Monument
- Description of this area acapted from the book "Hiking Arizona's Cactus Country" by Erik Molvar. General information on the area as well as very good information for 2 trails are available.
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Short description as part of a "Parkland Incognito" article from Outside Online Magazine. Try the Adventure Advisor for another Outside Online description of this area.
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Excellent description of this park from the people at GORP.
- Phoenix Mountain Parks
- Lists parks' addresses, phone numbers and activities available.
- Preserve Profiles
- Short descriptions of several Preserves in Arizona with detailed descriptions on how to get to each. Brought to you by The Nature Conservancy.
- Ramsey Canyon Preserve
- Description of what you are bound to find in this "Mecca for Hummingbirds." Brought to you by The Phoenix NewTimes' Mondo Arizona.
- rec.outdoors.national-parks
- National Park newsgroup. Ask a question, answer a question, or just lurk.
- Rose Canyon Lake
- Informative write-up from the Santa Catalina Ranger District. Includes a map of the area.
- Sabino Canyon Recreation Area
- Information about the Canyon and what it has to offer.
- Sabino Canyon Recreation Area
- Informative write-up from the Santa Catalina Ranger District. Includes a map of the area.
- Salome Canyon Jug
- Brief description of this hidden canyon and how to get there.
- The Superstition Wilderness
- Information on the area and an opinion about "wilderness" areas.
- USDA Forest Service
- Has nice map link. No specific hiking information available but addresses and phone numbers are available. Also try Arizona National Forests.
- Walnut Canyon National Monument
- Details of this area from an article posted online by Arizona StarNet.
- Weekend Wilderness Guide
- Descriptions of Wilderness Areas in Arizona from Basecamp - Backpacker Magazine. This is a new site which only has Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness so far. Information links from this page provide a thorough report of this area.
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