Sunshine Social Hike 3/1: King Canyon 9AM 😁☀️👑

Sunshine Social Hike 3/1: King Canyon 9AM ☀️

Let’s enjoy a social hike with petroglyphs, rocky inclines and beautiful views! We will be hiking the King Canyon, Sendero Esperanza and Gould Mine Loop.

This will be an approximately 2.8 mile hike with around 410 feet of elevation gain and will take us just under two hours to complete. We start with a rocky incline for a steady mile as we climb parallel to the wash…we then drop down to the Mam-a-gah picnic area (and add a little .1 mile to check out the petroglyphs in the wash), then we make our way down the Gould Mine trail and stroll back to the trailhead.

We will be starting introductions at 7:00am. After intros, we will begin hiking and return to the parking lot just before 9:00am (having taken our customary group picture at the halfway point, of course )

Please bring water and sunscreen, hiking poles may be useful in the rocky parts. This trail has some incline for a social hike, and it is mostly exposed with no shade.

The weather forecast right now calls for 69 degrees at the start and 69 by the time we finish, quite warm! I recommend shorts. This is not a dog friendly trail, unfortunately.

Parking available at the trailhead (payment on site for those without a National Park Pass), in the likely event the lot is full, parking available across the street at the desert museum.

Brunch is half an hour away (everything is half an hour away from the desert museum, haha) at Mojo Cuban Kitchen on Grant and Campbell at 11:30am. Please check in with Jon after the hike to reserve a seat, especially important if you’re in the early hike.

The first part of this hike is strenuous for a social hike! We gain over 300 feet in a mile, it’s definitely doable for our social group, just a heads up the tough part is the first half hour

We will be taking pictures and posting them to our group Facebook page. Thank you for your consent to post by joining our hike.

Hope to see you out there

Thanks,

Jon Powers
520-360-5854
sunshinesocialgroup.org