Road To Granite Mountain Juniper

Look up the hill and you will see a gate.

Road to granite mountain juniper. Follow the road to that gate. Visiting the juniper during a loop hike of upper pasture trail 38 little granite mountain trail 37 and white rock spring trail 39 is 6 6 mi. It is believed to be the largest and oldest of its kind in the world. There is a sign for granite basin road.

Once you turn on to it the fr374 sign is a few hundred feet down the road. Straight to the juniper is a 3 2 mi 375 aeg round trip hike. At the end of this trail is the giant alligator juniper tree that the granite mountain hotshots saved from the doce fire on june 18th 2013. There is a path around the gate to the right.

Twelve days later on june 30th 2013 19 of the 20 hotshots died fighting the yarnell hill fire. Especially if you re attracted to wilderness areas that can be reached in a fiat 500. But granite mountain is nowhere near bedrock city and time spent there is more about adventure than amore. Hiking to the massive 2000 year old alligator juniper tree near prescott az.

The 20 man granite mountain hotshots team was aware of the ancient alligator juniper that grew in view of both mountains for centuries. You ll see a brown marker for trail 38 and a wooden sign pointing out the direction for upper pasture trail 38 junction white rock springs trail 39 and junction little granite mountain trail 37. Many arizona state parks host fun educational star parties or astronomy events. If you hike in from contreras road add 1 6 mi.

But for the intervention of the hotshots it might today be nothing more than a lifeless charred trunk victim of one fire too many. Follow the road about 3 miles back to the trailhead parking area at the end of the loop road. That s not to say you won t fall in love because you will. It sounds like the kind of place that fred and barney would take wilma and betty for a romantic weekend.

2011 09 16 garry milo there is no sign for fr374. Access and camping the side road to granite mountain branches north off the iron springs road 4 5 miles from prescott town center this enters the prescott national forest but unlike most such land free camping is not permitted though there is a nice nfs campsite 18 per night in 2020 next to the road set in open pine forest between rounded boulders and patches of coarse clean granitic. Drove to trailhead 38 which made it a 3 mile roundtrip hike. Here you are on trail 38.