Phoenix Mountain Preserve's Dixie Peak Trail

While in Phoenix this past week for the Refugee Highway Partnership North America leadership team meetings, we headed to nearby Phoenix Mountain Preserve to stretch our legs on the Dixie Peak Trail.

We started our hike at the parking lot at the bottom of N 40th St and expected to do the L.V. Yates to “Two Bit”. But it’s probably just as well we didn’t since the Dixie Peak Trail was hard enough for our lot and got the blood pumping. We probably clocked in 2.7 or so miles in an hour and a half of hiking over quite a bit of loose rock that can’t be considered terribly fun. But as we began to climb, the loose rock turned into larger embedded rock. The vistas were certainly something to behold!