Local Trails – Thumb Butte
Soaring to 6,514 feet, Thumb Butte is Prescott’s iconic natural landmark. Its convenient location just west of Whiskey Row attracts scores of visitors, many of whom use the main Trail #33 as their first exposure to Prescott hiking. It’s a good choice for novice hikers and those unfamiliar with the area’s terrain. A slew of connecting routes add length and difficulty to satisfy most trekkers.
The most traveled of the seven routes in the park’s south end, Trail #33 is engineered with climb-calming switchbacks, safety rails and rest stops that make short work of the 2.1-mile loop around the granite formation. When hiking clockwise from the trailhead, the path is paved to the loop’s high point on a saddle below vertical rock slabs that form the butte’s summit.
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