Arizona hiking trails - Dorsey Spring Trail, Coconino County

   
  There are so many good trails for hiking in Arizona; Dorsey Spring Trail is one of them, and it's in Coconino County. If you are in Arizona during backcountry hiking season you have to go backcountry hiking. Here in the good state of Arizona hiking is always an enjoyable thing to do. This hiking and backpacking trail is a very short hiking and backpacking trail having an average number of uphill miles which makes it a nice great outdoors trail for the average person looking for a nice adventure. Every single Arizona trail has its own character. Alright,
    enough of spending all this time inside a building, time to get out, and Dorsey Spring Trail in Coconino County, Arizona is a good site for getting out. Please follow all local rules about fires and camping. For the period of the summertime at Dorsey Spring Trail highs are commonly
in the 80's; the overnight is a bit colder of course, commonly in the 50's. The wintertime comes with highs in the 40's; overnight lows at Dorsey Spring Trail throughout the wintertime commonly dip into the 20's. The great outdoors hiking trail stays roughly within the same elevation zone the whole time which means the conditions are about the same from start to finish. Sometimes this hiking and backpacking trail gets really dry, so don’t forget to check for any current fire restrictions before you go. Being 3 miles long it's shorter than many great outdoors  
hiking trails. You should count on this backcountry hike taking about 2.5 hours, but you never know stuff could go wrong and you could get stuck so be prepared for that. Around Dorsey Spring Trail you don’t get a lot of rain; of all the months in a year August is the one with the most rain, and June is when it's the driest. The total elevation difference for Dorsey Spring Trail is 689 feet which is lower than average. This is just one of a large number of great outdoors trails in this neighborhood. This hiking trail has only one trailhead, so you'll be backpacking it in and back out. Dorsey Spring Trail is a backpacking and hiking trail quite far from Prescott, but backcountry backpacking along this backpacking and hiking trail is very enjoyable. Even though this is not a very long hiking and backpacking trail you should still bring some emergency supplies just in case something happens.

Briefly about the general area:
Dorsey Spring is always fun to check out. There's so much to do here at Dorsey Spring Trail that you need to camp here for a while, Sedona RV Resort is a magnificent place for that. This river is so good. Near Dorsey Spring Trail you stumble on Calcord Canyon which is a tremendous spot to have a look at.
A short spree to Babes Hole Spring is always worthwhile. You'll need more than a day to look at everything Dorsey Spring Trail has to offer, you can camp at White Horse Lake Campground.

Location of Trailhead: Latitude 35.0577, Longitude -111.9263
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Total in and out hiking length = 3 miles

Total climbing distance = 1 miles

Difficulty : Medium

Casual Hiking Pace: 2.5 hours

Fast Hiking Pace: 1.5 hours

Total elevation difference: 689 feet


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 Trails Near Dorsey Spring Trail:
Little Lookout Trail, Coconino County , 1 miles away,  3.2 hiking miles, 1264 feet elevation difference
Winter Cabin Trail, Coconino County , 2 miles away,  10.6 hiking miles, 2664 feet elevation difference
Taylor Cabin Trail, Coconino County , 4 miles away,  4.8 hiking miles, 1794 feet elevation difference
Loy Butte Five, Yavapai County , 6 miles away, 4.8 hiking miles, 2111 feet elevation difference
Casner Mountain Trail Eight, Yavapai County , 7 miles away, 6.2 hiking miles, 2312 feet elevation difference
Mooney Trail, Yavapai County , 8 miles away, 6 hiking miles, 1852 feet elevation difference
Sycamore Basin Trail, Yavapai County , 9 miles away,  24.6 hiking miles, 2278 feet elevation difference
 Camp Grounds Near Dorsey Spring Trail:
White Horse Lake Campground, Coconino County, 6 miles away
Sedona RV Resort, Sedona, 13 miles away
Side Rock Campground, Coconino County, 14 miles away
Banjo Bill Campground, Coconino County, 14 miles away
Pine Flat Campground, Coconino County, 14 miles away
 National Parks Near Dorsey Spring Trail:
Walnut Canyon National Monument, Flagstaff - AZ , 27 miles away
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, Flagstaff - AZ , 27 miles away
Montezuma Castle National Monument, Camp Verde - AZ , 29 miles away
 Hotels Near Dorsey Spring Trail:
Bellemont / Flagstaff, Bellemont , 8 miles away
Enchantment Resort, Sedona , 12 miles away
Sedona Pines Resort, Sedona , 13 miles away
Junipine Resort, Sedona , 14 miles away
Junipine Resort, Sedona , 14 miles away

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