Hiking Crack in the Wall, Lake Havasu, AZ

 

The hike from SARA park just outside Lake Havasu City is about a 6.2 mile roundtrip. The trail was in good condition. To get to the trailhead. You turn into SARA park on the Arizona side of Lake Havasu around mile marker 175. If you can't find it, then you don't deserve to hike here. My timing for the wildflowers was impeccable. With the slow warming trend that had recently hit the desert, the flowers were quite showy. Essentially, you are following a drainage wash that flows into Havasu. There is a great slot canyon on this hike that runs for about 200 yards. When I went there were still some stagnant pools inside the slot, and I had to retrace my steps and find a way out of the canyon to the top of the ridge.

Once on the ridge, the views of Lake Havasu were superb. You can make great time if you choose the high route, but I always prefer staying in the canyon, because there tends to be more life there. The best part of the ridge trail was the flowers. As you can see from the beaver tail cactus bloom above. Also, brittlebush and mojave lupine were really hitting their stride.

Reaching the trailhead: As I said before, turn into SARA park at mile 175 and follow the road past the baseball fields until you see the trailhead sign on the left hand side.