Desert Hiking and Climbing Trails
Articles on Hiking and Climbing
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.
Minimum Impact Hiking - Know Your Limits - Hiking & Climbing Equipment
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
- Happy Trails Dog Adventure at the La Quinta Cove
More articles and links listed by state
- Arizona Trail - hiking 800 miles
- 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
- 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
- Sunset Crater Hiking
- Supal Indian village
- Soap Creek Canyon
- Sojourn at Apache Pass - Fort Bowie
- The Wave - Paria Canyon
- White Pocket
California Hikes
- 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
- Climbing Mt. Whitney - Lone Pine
- Hiking Death Valley's Telescope Peak
- Death Valley 2-Day Excusion
- Racetrack Playa
- Mosaic Canyon Marble Set In Time
- Books on Hiking Death Valley
- Desert Fan Palm Oases- Coachella Valley, Joshua Tree NP
- Desert Sprite - SD County
- Fossil Falls (BLM)
- Hiking Trail
- Juniper Flats JTNP
- Rock Climbing
- Hiking To The Lost Horse Mine
- Ryan Mountain Joshua 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
Other Areas in California
- Juniper Flats BLM Area
- Maturango Museum Petroglyph Tours - Ridgecrest
- 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
- Dinosaur National Monument
- Great Sand Dunes National Monument
- Hovenweep National Monument
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Pikes Peak Hike to Top
- Explore The Organ Mountain Trails
- Bandelier National Monument
- Petroglyph National Monument
- Three Rivers Petroglyph Site
- New Mexico's pueblitos
- Big Bend Ranch State Park
- Hiking in Big Bend RSP - Big Bend National Park
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- Hueco Tanks, An Island In The Desert Sun
- Utah’s White Canyon Country
- Hiking the Honecker Trail
- Anasazi Ruins of Grand Gulch
- Moab - Spectacular scenery and world-class hikes
- Arches National Park
- Capitol Reef National Park
- Glen Canyon NRA/Lake Powell
- Grand Staircase-Escalante NM
- Honecker Trail
Related Books on Hiking
Hiking Death Valley
Hiking the Mojave Desert
On Foot In Joshua Tree NP: A Hiking Guide
Other DesertUSA Resources
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Desert Survival Primer
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