The complete and authoritative guide to Arizona's Superstition Wilderness (Western Half). Along with trail guides for hikers and horseman, each trip includes the history of that trail--prehistoric people and places, U.S. Army marches, Apache stories, pioneer ranchers and homesteaders, mining claims and mines, and present-day treasure and gold seekers.Up-to-date trailhead and trail maps with GPS coordinates are provided for trailheads and key locations.Winner of several awards including the 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for Best History Book.

The complete and authoritative guide to the Eastern Superstition Wilderness in Central Arizona. Includes maps, hiker and horse rider trip descriptions, history of cowboys, homesteaders, and miners, with key gps coordinates.

Lush canyons with Sycamore and cottonwood trees, rugged mountains with towering ponderosa pines and alligator juniper tree, hidden creeks and waterfalls, majestic deserts and wildflowers, prehisatoric ruins, abandoned mines, prospector camps and ranches--all in a National Forest Wilderness less than a hour from Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to providing directions to these spectacular places, this guide brings alive the colorful history of the Superstitions.

Described in this guide are 77 trails that range from short, easy day hikes to difficult backpacking adventures. The book covers areas in Arapaho, Roosevelt, White River, and Routt National Forests as well as Rocky Mountain National Park. Detailed information includes directions to trailheads, maps, trail length, elevation gains, difficulty, and much more.

Arizona’s Superstition Mountains are like no other mountain range in the continental United States. The ancestral ground of the western Apache and sacred heights of the neighboring Pima, these mountains were once a veritable no-man’s land of soaring cliffs, dead-end box canyons, and eerie hoodoos of stone, marking them as one of the last places on earth that any person would dare to tread. While this range appears on the surface to be a veritable nature lover’s paradise with towering saguaro cactus forests, desert wildflowers, and roadrunners, it is also home to rattlesnakes, plants and animals that stick, sting, or bite, and modern gun-toting, dry-gulchers. In fact, in the last century, the Superstition Mountains have claimed the lives of more than 500 visitors, marking it as the West’s deadliest wild area. Part hiking guide, part history book, Superstitions: Hiking the Ghost Trails of Mystery Mountain vividly brings the supernatural beauty, mystery, and majesty of this unique area to life.Within the pages of Superstitions, readers will first be swept up in the legends of the Superstition Mountains, encountering colorful historical characters such as 1840s gold prospectors, brave-hearted Apaches, and sly outlaws. Readers will encounter the native flora and fauna of the range, from poisonous rattlesnakes to rare flowers. And finally, an in-depth guide to every trail in the range, will satisfy even the most experienced of hikers.Including a foldout map and dozens of original photos, Superstitions belongs on the shelf, or in the backpack, of every history buff and every veteran hiker.

Relates legend, lore, and fact concerning the Lost Dutchman gold mine of south-central Arizona.

This book is full of the gold of history - the facts, myths and legends of the Lost Dutchman Mine and the Superstition Mountains.