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Flora in Silly Mountain, Arizona
View from the Gold Canyon showing the eastern side of Silly Mountain, Arizona.
View westward from summit of Silly Mountain

Theme: Silly mountains in Arizona

useful: http://arizonahiking.org/84-superstition-and-mazatzal-wilderness/471-silly-mountain

useful: https://worldofarizona.com/silly-mountain-park/

useful : Apache Junction, Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona

useful informations :

Silly Mountain Park it is located between Apache Junction and Gold Canyon

Silly Mountain Park Origins & History

Silly Mountain Hiking Trails

Restoration and Preeservation of silly Mountain Park

Silly Mountain also known as "Roadside Benchmark"

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further ideas: adding a "gallery" section in which we can put further images of the mountain or of the Arizona's landscape. for the part of trekking routes we can buikd a table explaining them.

Silly Mountain Park is located on the east side of US 60. between the towns of Gold Canyon (north) and of Apache Junction (south). Trailhead address: 3565 S Silly Mountain Rd, Apache Junction, AZ 85119

The park is managed by the City of Apache Junction. There is a post with the history of the formation of the paths at the trailhead. Silly Mountain road used to be a four-wheel-drive road. Within 3 months the community changed the area into 3.5 miles of 10 accessible trails. No longer available to off-road vehicles.

Silly Mountain Park Hiking Trails
NAME
1 Brittle Brush Trail
2 Coyote Loop Trail
3 Crest Trail
4 High Point Trail
5 Huff & Puff Trail
6 Jackrabbit Trail
7 Old Baldy Trail
8 Old Mine Trail
9 Palo Verde Trail
10 Superstition View Trail

There are ten hiking paths with varying levels of difficulty from easy, moderate and difficult at Silly Mountain Park in Apache Junction. Hikers of every age and skill level can enjoy the park’s trails that showcase Arizona’s great outdoors, with a range of desert scenery from cactus to wildlife. Some trails even have silly-sounding themed names to coincide with their mountain’s namesake

year date climber


Silly Mountain Park Hiking Trails
NAME LENGHT DIFFICULTY
1 Brittle Brush Trail 0.4 miles easy
2 Coyote Loop Trail 0.1 miles moderate
3 Crest Trail 0.3 miles moderate
4 High Point Trail 150 feet easy
5 Huff & Puff Trail 0.2 miles difficult
6 Jackrabbit Trail 0.2 miles moderate
7 Old Baldy Trail 0.2 miles moderate
8 Old Mine Trail 0.3 miles difficult
9 Palo Verde Trail 0.4 miles easy
10 Superstition View Trail 0.7 miles easy

There are ten hiking paths with varying levels of difficulty from easy, moderate and difficult at Silly Mountain Park in Apache Junction. Hikers of every age and skill level can enjoy the park’s trails that showcase Arizona’s great outdoors, with a range of desert scenery from cactus to wildlife. Some trails even have silly-sounding themed names to coincide with their mountain’s namesake.

Ascents of Slly Mountain
DATE CLIMBER
2001
1 2001-04-16 Martin, Bob
2013
2 2013-12-25 Corbin, Clark
2014
3 2014-01-02 Mallory, Kirk
2016
4 2016-01-17 Komuro, Kay
5 2016-11-12 Raether, Don
6 2016-12-21 Sexauer, Gustav
2017
7 2017-01-29 Dolan, Jay
8 2017-02-07 Packard, Bob
9 2017-02-23 Urban, Doug
10 2017-06-02 Sexauer, Gustav
11 2017-08-06 Sexauer, Gustav
12 2017-11-17 Pike, Patti
2018
13 2018-01-27 Stender, Matthias
14 2018-01-27 Surgent, Scott
15 2018-04-20 Czaplicki, Christopher
16 2018-09-03 Tempco, Ashley
2019
17 2019 Burek, Erek
18 2019-12-14 Fleishmann, Daniel
19 2019-12-20 Martin, Andy
2020
20 2020-01-16 Keeling, Greg
21 2020-02-20 Luther, Wade
22 2020-04-04 Czajkowski, Emmaline
23 2020-04-20 Czajkowski, Emmaline
24 2020-04-26 Czajkowski, Steve
25 2020-11-06 Doyle, Jim
2021
26 2021-01-07 Sexauer, Gustav
27 2021-11-25 Wahr, Andrew
28 2021-12-02 Carmody, David
29 2021-12-08 Walker, Adam
2022
30 2022-01-15 Akerman, Ken
31 2022-03-03 Chestler, Stuart
32 2022-05-23 Sexauer, Gustav
Sign at Silly Mountain Park, Arizona.

The table below is a list exposing the total number of climbs of Silly Mountain, from 2001 to 2022 (in updating), which have been recorded exclusively by the source cited.


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