Siphon Draw Hike, Superstition Wilderness, Tonto National Forest
Posted on March 30th, 2009 by john
Today we hiked up the Siphon Draw. The trailhead starts in the day use area of the Lost Dutchman State Park and goes up through the siphon draw. We ended at the basin, 1.96 miles from the parking lot at 2,995 feet. The trailhead is at 1,916 feet. The trail is pretty steep for most of it’s length, with very few areas where it levels off for even a few feet. At the basin, the trail continues up a rock chute, that becomes a waterfall when it rains, to the Flatiron, at about 4100 feet. Needless to say, we didn’t go the additional 0.8 miles up Flatiron.
I’m including several photos, this time without comment.
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Cholla, Lost Dutchman State Park, Superstition Mountain, Tonto National Forest, Siphon Draw
Nice photos. I was stationed at Williams AFB in 1985-86 for pilot training. Hiked up flat iron several times while there, loved it. There used to be a few pieces of T-38 wreckage scattered along the trail, wonder if you saw any of that?
We didn’t see the wreckage. But we didn’t get all the way up to Flat Iron, either. We only went to the head of the draw, where the waterfall dumps out.