Explore the best rated trails in Phoenix, AZ, whether you're looking for an easy walking trail or a bike trail like the Arizona Canal Path and Grand Canal Path . With more than 35 trails covering 332 miles you're bound to find a perfect trail for you. Click on any trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
Wonderful smooth path and local gem. No major street crossings, not too crowded and wide lanes. Various areas to crisscross. Always a pleasant ride.
Parked at Rio Vista Community Park. If you cross the little bridge at the park and turn right (north) the New River Trail is 7.5 miles to the north end so a nice 15 mile round trip. Beautiful flowering trees/trail surface great.
Many things to see near and past the designated north end of trail. A huge mining pit and great red rock views. I am going further north soon to see how far you can follow the canal to the dam in mountains.
Good trail. It really goes forever. We saw no real trash or homeless. There were other bikers and walkers in this area. No shade so definitely a winter ride.
We parked at Thunderbird Paseo Park. Seemed safe with others parked there. This was just sort of exploring for us. We rode north for 2 1/2 miles and on TrailLink it shows the trail ending but it flowed right into the Stadium Trail. That ended at a busy street but I’m sure you could have crossed the road to the other side of the canal. We turned around and rode back past the park for several miles. Another busy street. Crossed the bridge on a safe sidewalk separated from traffic. Rode up the other side of the canal. You can cross the river bottom at several places and go back and forth. bottom
We parked at the Rio Vista Community Center Parking Lot. Very safe-other bikers parked there also. I wasn't expecting much based on other reviews but I found the trail excellent. No homeless/no trash. It follows the New River for a bit and then part of a canal system? Anyway the trees and bushes were beautiful and it winds in back of nice houses. There were several lovely little parks with bathrooms available. It was good to have Traillink as there is one tricky turn to stay on the path and thru 2-3 blocks of a neighborhood. We came back the same path but I always run Traillink and All Trails at the same time on my phone and I could see on All Trails that there is a way to return on the opposite side of the canal/waterway. There was actually some water running due to the recent rains. We will definitely do this again.
Love the underpasses and option to choose either side of the wash in most places. Really beautiful!
we have riden this caw trail from Greenfield park going north.
The descrition says asphalt - gravel. It should be noted that in the section going north for about 10 miles maybe 10% is asphalt, the rest is sometimescompacted dirt and sometimes compacted bolder, so bad I broke my bike suspension seat, further more it cross busy 4 lanes boulevard with NO pedestrian or bike crossing ,dangerous at best, the car driver look like they are trying to get you.
May be ok if your are adventurous and do not mind getting run over at crossing, and if you are riding mountain bike or fat bike.
The trail have tremendous potential, it is not there yet, far from it.
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The trail is now over six miles from Power to Rittenhouse.
Not so nice in others: homeless and questionable activities. The path itself is great, wide and smooth. It was clear and clean in the distance I went. Some ducks and fish in the water, as well as a few shopping carts.
I rode only the northern portion until I couldn’t take it anymore. Every underpass was a homeless encampment. Trash. garbage, etc blocked the trail and made it dangerous to ride. Not recommended.
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