Runners up:
2. Sabino Canyon3. Mount Lemmon
Best Backpacking Trail
Romero Pass
Readers Pick
Romero Pass
Romero Pass
What better way to climb from the hellish heat of the Tucson Basin to 6,000 feet in the beautiful Santa Catalina Mountains than on a trail that offers you a cooling jump in the drink right when you need it? Starting from Catalina State Park, the first mile and a half is sandy and low-grade. Further into the Pusch Ridge Wilderness, the trail gets rockier, and saguaros give way to oak, manzanita and the fabled Romero Pools. Seven miles up the trail, A-types will bag the pass, check the view and move on, but for the rest of us circus escapees, getting there is more than half the fun. This is the kind of trail that reminds you what life's all about: It's not just where you wind up in the end; it's the JOURNEY, stupid!
Previous Winners
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2021
Arizona Trail
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2020
Arizona Trail
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2019
Sabino Canyon/Seven Falls Recreation Area
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2018
Sabino Canyon Recreation Area
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2017
Mount Lemmon
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2015
Mount Lemmon
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2014
Seven Falls
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2013
Arizona Trail
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2012
Sabino Canyon (general)
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2011
Sabino Canyon (general)
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2010
Sabino Canyon (general)
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2009
Sabino Canyon
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2007
Sabino Canyon
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2006
Sabino Canyon
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2005
Aravaipa Canyon
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2004
Sabino Canyon
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2002
Arizona Trail
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2000
Arivaipa Canyon
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