Category: Local Trails

Want some more turkey? Of course, you do. We’re not talking about Thanksgiving and those L-Tryptophan heavy dinners. Rather, how about another local trail named “turkey”…

My trusty, well-worn and old-school fold-out Flagstaff Trail Map, circa 2021, does not list the Turkey Hill Trail. That’s why, until recently, I had no idea…

Excuse me, I need to go lie down. I thought I had recovered enough from running up Bill Williams Mountain to write about it. … ……

Leave it to the Germans, known for their precision with language and most everything else, to come up with just the right word to describe the…

Normally, I like to run in the morning – the earlier, the better. Not only do you avoid the crowds on Flagstaff’s uber-popular trail system, but…

Sartre’s famous dictum, “Hell is other people,” has never been more applicable than when it comes to traversing many of the higher-elevation Flagstaff trails in October,…

Far be it from me to tell the Forest Service what to do and, to be frank, the advice I’m about to give certainly will be…

Rarely do you experience what I call a Robert Frost Moment at the very start of the run, but that’s what happened the other day when…

They call it the Big Bang Trail, a nod to Flagstaff’s astronomical interests. It fits, too, because the 4.4-mile trail itself is, as the slang goes,…

Leaving the comfort and crushed granite of Buffalo Park for the technical and boulder-strewn Lower Oldham Trail can be a tough transition, hard on the body…