Desert Hiking & Climbing Trails

Below is a list of links to DesertUSA articles and some park trail guides. For more hiking and trail information at a specific park or location, visit Places To Go.

DesertUSA readers and staff write about their hikes:

• Hiking Grapevine Canyon, Laughlin, Nevada
• The Wildflowers at Whitewater Preserve
• Hiking Tahquitz Canyon, Palm Springs
• La Quinta Cove Hiking
• From the Mojave to the Sonoran Desert, Old Route 62
• Murray Canyon Trail - Indian Canyons,
  Palm Springs, CA
• Happy Trails Dog Adventure at the La Quinta Cove

• Arizona Places To Go
• Arizona Trail Ogres
• Aravaipa Canyon Backpacking
• Beat Arizona's Summer Heat
  
• Bagdad and some other places not in Iraq
• El Camino Del Diablo
  
• Ehrenberg Sandbowl OHV Area
• Florence coke ovens
• Hike to the ancient Anasazi
• Hiking The Grand Canyon
• Hiking Canyon X
• Green Water of the Havasupai
• Glen Canyon NRA/Lake Powell
• Grand Canyon National Park
• Hike to the Bottom of the Grand Canyon
• Two Grand Canyon Area Hikes Cathedral Wash and Powell's Rock
• Keet Seel Navajo National Monument
• Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
• Petrified Forest National Park
• Reevis Falls A hike to remember
• Solar Studies and Other Adventures In SW Arizona
• Sycamore Canyon Wilderness
• Sara Park Wash - Crack In The Wall - Lake Havasu area
• Supal Indian village
• Soap Creek Canyon
• Sojourn at Apache Pass - Fort Bowie
  

California

• Afton Canyon Reverie - Eastern Mojave
• Amboy Crater: Lava Land
• Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
  • Hiking & Trail Guide
  • Shaman’s Cave
  • Villager Peak Walk - Anza-Borrego
  • Fish Creek Walk - Anza-Borrego
  • Ghost Mountain - Anza-Borrego
  • Elephant Trees Trail - Anza-Borrego
  • Company Of Strangers
  • Coyote Canyon
  • Granite Mountain
    
    
• Bradshaw Trail BLM Area
• California Places To Go
• Death Valley Area
  
  • Climbing Mt. Whitney - Lone Pine
  • Hiking Death Valley's Telescope Peak
  • Death Valley 2-Day Excusion
    
  • Racetrack Playa
  • Hiking Death Valley (book)
  • Mosaic Canyon Marble Set In Time
    
    
• Desert Fan Palm Oases- Coachella Valley, Joshua Tree NP
• Desert Sprite - SD County
• Devils Canyon Walk - SD County
• Fossil Falls (BLM)
• Joshua Tree National Park
  • Hiking & Trail Guide
  • Juniper Flats JTNP
    
  • Rock Climbing Guide
  • Hiking To The Lost Horse Mine
  • Ryan Mountain Josha Tree NP
  • Sheer Fear: Rock Climbing at Joshua Tree NP
  • Carey's Castle
  • Rock Climbing in the desert
    
  • Oasis Hunting In Joshua Tree National Park
• Juniper Flats BLM Area
• Maturango Museum Petroglyph Tours - Ridgecrest
• Mosaic Canyon
• North Algodones Sand Dunes - Imperial Valley
• On the Trail of the Creosote - Coachella Valley
• Hiking Tahquitz Canyon - Coachella Valley
• Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
• From the Mojave to the Sonoran Desert, Old Route 62
• Petroglyphs of the Cosos - Ridgecrest
• Retracing Colin Fletcher's Thousand-Mile Summer Trail
• Santa Rosa & San Jacinto Mountains National Monument (BLM) - A Morning Hike Along The Randall Henderson Trail (Palm Desert, CA)
• Trona Pinnacles BLM Area
• Whitewater Preserve (Riverside County, CA)
  - Day Trippin' at Whitewater Preserve
  - Wildflowers at Whitewater Preserve

 Colorado

• Colorado Places To Go
• Dinosaur National Monument
• Great Sand Dunes National Monument
• Hovenweep National Monument
• Mesa Verde National Park

Nevada

• Grapevine Canyon
  - see also Hiking Grapevine Canyon
• Nevada Places To Go
• Red Rock Canyon NCA
• Spirit Mountain

New Mexico

• Explore The Organ Mountain Trails
• Bandelier National Monument
• New Mexico Places To Go
• Petroglyph National Monument
• Three Rivers Petroglyph Site
• New Mexico's pueblitos

Texas

• Big Bend Ranch State Park
• Big Bend National Park
• Guadalupe Mountains National Park
• Hueco Tanks, An Island In The Desert Sun
• Texas Places To Go

Utah

• Utah’s White Canyon Country
• Hiking the Honecker Trail
• Anasazi Ruins of Grand Gulch
• Arches National Park
• Capitol Reef National Park
  • Rock Climbing Guide
• Glen Canyon NRA/Lake Powell
• Grand Staircase-Escalante NM
• Honecker Trail
• Utah Places To Go