Pack mules must also be reserved online at Havasupai Reservations, the fee is $400 roundtrip per pack mule.Check-in for permit reservations is now required at Grand Canyon Caverns Inn, located at Mile Marker 115, Route 66 near Seligman, Arizona 86434. It’s located about 10 minutes from Hualapai Lodge, and a little over an hour’s drive from the Hualapai Hilltop trailhead.Check the new official tribal Facebook page for updates. But you may have to wait until 2024 as a backlog of reservations that were delayed from 2020 get priority in 2023. Best to have a Havasupai Account in place before reservations open in February for arrivals on March and beyond. Havasupai Reservations have to be in place before arrival.
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How To Get To Havasu Creek Havasupai Reservations She bypassed hikers who had left camp hours earlier at sunrise and was nearly as fast as a galloping horse. That’s when my superior horsemanship consisted of holding on to the saddle horn for dear life.Īnd yet, as fast as we rode up that narrow trail, I arrived only half an hour before my daughter. That is until my horse noticed a few buddies being herded up the canyon trail and decided to pick up the pace himself. Any time my horse lagged, he reminded us to move along. My guide wasn’t so much interested in a pleasant ride as he was in getting to the hilltop as quickly as possible.
I chose to go on horseback, an experience that I will always remember as the first time I bypassed cantering and went straight to a gallop.
I fell behind my daughter a few times that day as we traversed through creek beds, over log bridges, into wild-grape-covered meadows, and again up and down ladders. This is not for the faint of heart or those afraid of heights. Fifteen minutes beyond the campground, sits Mooney Falls, with a 195 plunge that tops Niagara Falls.īut to get there, you have to climb through tunnels, chains, and ladders slippery from the waterfall’s spray. The next morning we tackled the extreme skills portion of the trip on a day hike to Beaver Falls. $5 for fry bread, $10 for Supai taco? Sure, why not. Luckily, a couple of enterprising locals were making a killing thanks to the laws of supply and demand. Kayla was in charge of packing the food for this trip, so meals were healthy if Spartan. And I was delighted to discover remarkably clean composting restrooms surrounded by a grove of moonflowers that perfumed the night. We chose one sheltered by scrub and red-rock wall, where a prior tenant had strung a clothesline. There were many available campsites at Havasupai Campground, both next to the creek and not. Housing many of the 650 members of the Havasupai tribe, the village has all the modern trappings of an American town: church, school, grocery store, cellphone service, and a small but comfortable inn, the Havasupai Lodge. Resources are limited, goods arrive by mule train, and trash must be carried out the same way. I could see why it was important to limit the influx of visitors, both to preserve a fragile ecosystem and a way of life. Not only was she fine, but she was also lounging under a thick cottonwood tree lacquering her nails pink. I caught up to my daughter not long after the storm ended. In its wake, I saw streams which I avoided because the water seemed to be passing very quickly, fast enough to topple an unwary hiker. I worried about the lack of water, but soon raindrops had me concerned about too much water. There’s no water for the first 6 miles and daytime temperatures from May through September are often above 105 degrees Fahrenheit even in the shade. It is 10 miles to reach the campground though–a considerable distance for most of us. The hiking is rocky and sandy, and pack mules going up and down the canyon have to be avoided, but generally, this is a moderate hike. The trail is only steep for the first 1.5 miles from the trailhead at Hualapai Hilltop, where we parked the car, and after that, it is mostly level hiking with a slightly downhill slant. But did she have enough water?Ĭarrying enough water for the hike is imperative, at least 3 liters is the recommended amount.
The trail, well-marked by people and mules following an ancient path, could not be missed. Then, by mid-afternoon, it had been hours since she surged ahead, and I was beginning to kick myself for letting her hike alone in the desert. For eight miles–down steep canyon walls, through a brief deluge, and over shallow flash flood streams in the valley-I had struggled to keep up with my 18-year-old daughter, Kayla. Spying a spray-painted plywood sign pointing toward Supai Village, I hurried over the narrow bridge.
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