 Rediscover
the American Southwest!
The
Grand Enchantment Trail is a
730-mile wilderness walking route across the Southwest U.S.,
connecting mountains, deserts, canyons, and places of cultural
and historic interest. Beginning in the Sonoran desert near
Phoenix Arizona, the route meanders eastward, crossing unique
and diverse Sky Island mountain ranges, deep and water-blessed
desert canyons, the pine-studded Continental Divide, and toward
the southernmost Rocky Mountains, where it descends dramatically
to the outskirts of Albuquerque New Mexico at its distant
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If you've ever felt the pull of wild places...
of
warm dry air and strong desert sun,
of thorny deserts and forested summits,
sheer-walled canyons and deafening silence,
ancient cultures and dusty main streets,
and the challenge and reward of walking
through a rugged, little-known land...
We
invite you to discover the Grand Enchantment Trail. > LEARN
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 New
Feature: Introducing Video
Galleries, a collection of short, streaming video
clips highlighting each portion of the route and offering an even
more realistic perspective on the Grand Enchantment Trail experience.
Click on the video icon to visit the galleries.
excerpt
from Guidebook
Segment 7:
Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
"Aravaipa
might well be considered Arizona's "Grand Canyon of the Sonoran
Desert." For like its neighbor to the north, Aravaipa Canyon is
also a place born of water, uplift, and erosion - a great curving
and carving of the land into a sheer-walled labyrinth of light
and color, liquid and life. In terms of geography, this grand
canyon is small - a fifth as high, its main passage walkable in
just a day or two. Yet by measure of its life, Aravaipa is a place
of rare grandeur." > READ
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"Now's
the time to help pioneer this rollicking and occasionally unsigned
itinerary across 14 mountain ranges, 12 wilderness areas, seldom-seen
canyons, real ghost towns, and nights so starry you feel like
you could float away." - Backpacker Magazine,
April 2006
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