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Introductory Links
https://rebeccarosethering.com/azt/ —a nice, human discussion from someone who hiked the Arizona Trail as their first major trail.
https://www.cleverhiker.com/backpacking/the-ultimate-guide-to-hiking-the-arizona-trail/ —I am often not a fan of this website but this guide isn’t bad.
https://www.erinexploring.com/blog/arizona-trail-resupply-guide —focused on resupply, this expands out a little.
https://aztrail.org/the-trail/ —the official site with a number of resources and available books.
Discussion
“Your Complete Guide to the Arizona National Scenic Trail” is a book Copyright © 2014 by the Arizona Trail Association that goes over each of the 43 sections or “passages” of the trail.
It starts slowly, reading like a text book for the first forty pages or so.
Then it covers each section or “passage” in depth, including the type of information a day hiker would want to know.
It provides a topographic map and an elevation map for each section.
In addition, FarOut has a guide for both the Arizona Trail and the Arizona Biking Trail. It does not include camping locations as entries but provides all the usual other FarOut information—especially water.
The biggest climb is right at the start and then at the Grand Canyon near the end.
Resupply is about every fifty miles (often on trail) until towards the end where there is a hundred mile stretch between resupply well after the time you should have trail legs.
Significantly, water is a core issue for this trail. FarOut is the resource.
Further reading
PMags — energetic and entertaining comments.
Trek Blogger— typical Trek writer experience.
Free Roaming Hiker —includes a day by day blog. Interesting and detailed.
Video
There are a lot of YouTube videos. But this one was interesting when I knew little.
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