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Picacho
Travel Blogs from Picacho, United States
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Absolutely wonderful
... ; Beauty even if it is fleeting and before anyone notices it is gone. True beauty for beauties sake. Okay, enough said. Picacho means peak in Spanish which makes you think the name of the park is kinda redundant – peak, peak park. ...
Day Thirty-Six
... near the peak was even the site of a brief skirmish between California Union forces and a Confederate scouting party in 1862. Picacho Peak receives five Zoobs in the state park category. Everything is clean and new, the rangers are friendly and ...
Ostrich Farm? We've gotta check this out!
So we pull up to the Ostrich Farm and we see this Monster Truck! No really A monster truck, of course we got there to late for the truck tour and it was 110+ degrees outside . . . so we decided to just feed the animals and come back another time ...
Poppies!
Last year when Ben and I saw the pictures of the wildflowers down at Picacho peak we decided right then that this year we were going to make it down. We both enjoy taking pictures, although alot of the pictures don't look as amazing as the place you ...
A new view...
... side simultaneously, I get a bit nervous. I chose the outside lane as a result and it worked better. We are now at Picacho Peak State Park. This is the site of the northernmost Civil War battle in Arizona. But, I've already mentioned ...
An early Hike, a Nap and a Walk in the Sunset
We got to the trailhead of the Sunset Trail before nine AM. It was getting warm already. Lynn had her Montana walking stick and I had my new trekking poles. The beginning of the trail was rather steep, so I had a chance to get the feel ...
Another hike before a HOT day...
We got to the trailhead early this morning. The trail looked to be longer than it turned out to be, but parts of it were rather "severe", as opposed to moderate. The trekking poles did the job and added a lot of security to the hike, ...
On the road again...
... ; The campground has electric hook-ups which was good since the nights are still cold. We have a campsite with view of the Picacho mountains which, due to recent rains, are alive with the new growth of spring. We took a 2.5 hour ...
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