Deer Creek Trailhead, 2024 visit

Galiuro Wilderness, 2024 visit
Four-day, 37-mile loop trip in April 2024. Cumulative trip mileage listed at each campsite marker. Last day GPS data: 5.1 mi distance at 1.2 mph with average elevation change of 500 ft per mi (ascending 350 ft and descending 2575 ft).

Camp1 (at 8 mii): Powers Garden
Day1 GPS data: 8.4 mi distance at 2.1 mph with average elevation change of 550 ft per mi (ascending 2275 ft and descending 2375 ft).

Camp2 (at 23 mi): Rattlesnake Creek
Day2 GPS data: 14.3 mi distance at 1.8 mph with average elevation change of 325 ft per mi (ascending 2900 ft and descending 1850 ft).

Camp3 (at 32 mi): Kennedy saddle
Day3 GPS data: 8.8 mi distance at 1.0 mph with average elevation change of 550 ft per mi (ascending 3025 ft and descending 1850 ft).

GPS track
GPS data for total trip: 37.3 mi distance at 1.6 mph with average elevation change of 450 ft per mi (ascending 8550 ft and descending 8650 ft).

High Creek Trailhead, 2016 visit

Galiuro Wilderness, 2016 visit
Four-day, 44-mile loop trip in March 2016. Cumulative trip mileage listed at each campsite marker. Last day GPS-adjusted data: 11.8 mi distance with average elevation change of 575 ft per mi (ascending 3000 ft and descending 3650 ft). (GPS track field recorded but device-recorded statistics lost; data adjusted from nearby Mount Wrightson data since Garmin BaseCamp software underestimates mileage and elevation from map routes.)

Camps1&2 (at 3&21 mi): unnamed spring
Day1 GPS-adjusted data: 3.2 mi distance with average elevation change of 600 ft per mi (ascending 1900 ft and descending 25 ft). Day2 GPS-adjusted data: 17.9 mi distance with average elevation change of 600 ft per mi (ascending 5525 ft and descending 5275 ft).

Camp3 (at 32 mi): Corral Canyon
Day3 GPS-adjusted data: 10.6 mi distance with average elevation change of 375 ft per mi (ascending 1400 ft and descending 2475 ft).

GPS track
GPS adjusted-data for total trip: 43.6 mi distance with average elevation change of 525 ft per mi (ascending 11825 ft and descending 11425 ft).

Deer Creek Trailhead, 2015 visit

Galiuro Wilderness, 2015 visit
Six-day, 55-mile loop trip in January 2015. Cumulative trip mileage listed at each campsite marker. Last day GPS-adjusted data: 5.2 mi distance with average elevation change of 550 ft per mi (ascending 275 ft and descending 2625 ft). (GPS track field recorded but device-recorded statistics lost; data adjusted from nearby Mount Wrightson data since Garmin BaseCamp software underestimates mileage and elevation from map routes.)

Camp1 (at 3 mi)
Day1 GPS-adjusted data: 2.8 mi distance with average elevation change of 475 ft per mi (ascending 900 ft and descending 425 ft).

Camp2 (at 15 mi)
Day2 GPS-adjusted data: 12.0 mi distance with average elevation change of 675 ft per mi (ascending 3775 ft and descending 4250 ft).

Day3 GPS-adjusted data: 12.1 mi distance with average elevation change of 350 ft per mi (ascending 2650 ft and descending 1675 ft). Day4 GPS-adjusted data: 13.1 mi distance with average elevation change of 675 ft per mi (ascending 4375 ft and descending 4375 ft).

Camp5 (at 50 mi)

GPS track
GPS adjusted-data for total trip: 54.9 mi distance with average elevation change of 550 ft per mi (ascending 14750 ft and descending 14775 ft).

Fires

1990 Maverick (2000 ac)

1993 Markham Fire (25,000 ac)

1998 Double R prescribed burn (5000 ac)

2016 unnamed Fire prescribed burn (10,000 ac)

2017 Paddys River prescribed burn (10,000 ac)

2021 Yle prescribed burn (7000 ac)

2022 Redfield prescribed burn (9000 ac)

Wilderness boundary

Galiuro Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 33
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=196
Wilderness | Galiuro Wilderness
State | AZ
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 2/26/2019
WID | 196
Abbreviated Name | Galiuro
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Galiuro.jpg
Acreage | 77585
Description | The precipitous, rocky, and brushy Galiuro Mountains rise abruptly in block-like uplifts from the almost flat desert plains. Nineteen miles in length and six miles in width (on average), they are almost...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 196FS
Designated | 1964
ORIG_FID | 28421