Page Spring–Boca Grande Trail, 4 sights is a 9.3-mile out-and-back in Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area near Cave Creek, AZ. The route reaches Page Spring. It climbs 1,469 ft, with sections as steep as 20% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 85/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
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Page Spring–Boca Grande Trail, 4 sights
9.3 mi · ▲ 1,469 ft · 3 hr 50 min
Elevation 2,223–2,937 ft
Out & Back · Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area
Trailhead: Dragon Fly Trailhead · 33.88403, -111.95496
Weather Sep 4: Overcast, high 95°F / low 77° · precip 5% · wind 8 mph · sunrise 6:05 AM · sunset 6:51 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Dragonfly Trail, heading SW.
- 1.5 miContinue straight onto Tortuga Trail, heading NW.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto Elephant Mountain Trail, heading NW.
- 0.6 miTurn right onto Limestone Trail #252, heading N.
- 0.5 miPass Page Spring.
- 50 ftSharp left onto Spur to spring, heading S.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Limestone Trail #252, heading S.
- 1.3 miBear left onto North Road 48, heading N.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Cave Creek Trail #4, heading NW.
- 450 ftReach Page Spring, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 450 ftTurn left onto North Road 48, heading E.
- 0.2 miBear right onto Limestone Trail #252, heading S.
- 1.3 miContinue straight onto Spur to spring, heading W.
- 50 ftSharp right onto Limestone Trail #252, heading W.
- 0.5 miTurn left, heading W.
- 0.4 miContinue straight onto Elephant Mountain Trail, heading S.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Tortuga Trail, heading SE.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto Boca Grande Trail, heading SE.
- 1.2 miTurn left onto Dragonfly Trail, heading E.
- 0.3 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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- Parking lot at the trailhead
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