AZ-Wet+Beaver+Creek+Wilderness


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Yavapai County
=Wet Beaver Creek Wilderness= Rimrock, Arizona 86335 Wet Beaver Creek Wilderness web site Wet Beaver Creek Wilderness location map

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Wet Beaver Creek WA--Bell Trail
Coordinates: 34.6784996, -111.7001867 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Wet Beaver Campground and Picnic Area
Coordinates: 34.6694644, -111.7140698 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips for birding Wet Beaver Creek Wilderness
The campground can be a quicker alternative to birding the creek than hiking the trail. While the day use area on the west side of the road is less crowded and has access to hiking trails, the campground itself can be good for its feeders. Look for mixed flocks in migration and for flocks of juncos and other sparrows in winter.

The Wet Beaver Creek Trail is beautiful and can be very good birding, but can be crowded in warm weather. Both Zone-tailed and Common Black-Hawks are common here. This is a great spot to view breeding birds in the arid juniper habitat on the north side of the trail as well as the lush riparian on the south side. Listen for Cactus and Canyon Wrens singing from the slopes above. Wintering flocks can be impressive. If you're inclined, come prepared to enjoy fantastic (though cold) swimming holes. From Northern Arizona Audubon Society

About Wet Beaver Creek Wilderness
This tucked away desert oasis is the smallest of four major canyons that cut the Coconino National Forest's red rock rim country. Though it may be small, the scenery you'll find here is none the less impressive. Much of the narrow steep-sided gorge Wet Beaver Creek Canyon has carved into the Colorado Plateau's southern face is quite remote and few people venture into its inner depths. The easiest access is upstream from the canyon mouth along a well used hiking trail. Even in this case reaching the gorge's more remote upper stretches is no easy task. Continuing upstream beyond where the Bell Trail climbs out of the canyon and out of the wilderness requires swimming or wading a number of coldwater pools which stretch from wall to canyon wall.

Most of those who come here confine their visit to the area's lower, more accessible reaches which provide a popular place to swim, fish, camp and hike in a picturesque, setting. Others venture upstream of Bell Crossing where the solitude deepens as you venture farther from this area's more popular haunts. From Wet Beaver Creek Wilderness web site



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