Sabino Canyon Recreation Area

Absolutely beautiful park. It was crowded due to New Years Day visitors. However, there are enough trails and space for everyone to e joy their little slice of heaven. My partner and I enjoyed every moment of our 1.75-mile hike in the canyons. The experience was unforgettable, and we would definitely come back here to explore the other trails and walk further up the mountain next trip to Tucson. Parts of the hike were steep, and several areas were not well marked, but my partner is a good navigator, so we were able to find our way around. The wash was beautiful, and there were children playing in the water, which was a lovely sound.

I just love this place. I never have been here on summer time but we had visitors and we need it to go somewhere so we decided to go to Sabino and take the shuttle. When we got there we saw that they had a high water tour. When we read about it we realized that the shuttle only goes to the stop number 2 so we decided to walk instead. When we arrived to the first bridge (just after stop number 2) we understood why the high water tour. You can see it on the pictures. I've never seen so much water in Sabino. It was beautiful. I'm so happy we had visitors other wise I would have never go to Sabino in August.

Did a very quick afternoon visit to the dam area to check out the water flow from the monsoons. The trail is pretty easy and a wonderful place to wander around for beautiful desert vistas (still quite hot though so be prepared!!). Thrilled with how green the desert looks after all the rain. The views of the mountains were stunning in the afternoon light and some of the cacti are flowering. The pops of color are always such a treat!

Sabino Canyon is a hikers paradise offering trails at every level. For the less athletic, a bus service is a great alternative that hikers can jump on and off during the one hour tour of the canyon.

The canyon bus is windowless (weather permitting) and allows for amazing views of this incredible natural scenery.

This is definitely a “don’t miss” visit just an hour from Central Tucson.

Do it!

We took the trolley up and enjoyed the scenery and the information in the tour. We especially appreciated the strictly enforced mask wearing as we have frail family members at home to protect.
Half our group hiked the ridge back down and the rest of us rode back one stop then walked the rest of the way.

We had a wheelchair with us and the road was manageable for able bodied people to push it. There were some pretty good uphill sections so we got a great workout.

The scenery was so beautiful! We stopped at most of the creek crossings and our chair user was able to get out and walk around a bit. We were a as all SO happy to find somewhere to safely be outside together.