Picture Canyon Natural and Cultural Preserve

"Took my family to this nice, peaceful hike - the Tom Moody Extension of Picture Canyon hiking trail. We visited during Thanksgiving week at around 11:00 am and were pleased to have the hike mostly to ourselves - maybe came across a handful of people. The weather was chilly but bearable. Would definitely recommend this hike. The start of the trail is at a sewerage and water plant which makes for a terrible and unpleasant odor at the beginning, however it doesn’t last long. The public bathroom is a porta potty at the trailhead/parking lot. As you start your hike you can take detours to Arizona Trail, which is a bike friendly trail and goes on for miles on either direction, even connecting this to Walnut Canyon. We followed the Tom Moody trail to the left at the fork, exploring the beautiful landscape and woods before ending our hike with the petroglyphs and waterfall. Our total distance was around 4 miles. This was an easy hike and mostly flat landscape. You will need to venture off the trail just slightly to get to the waterfall, but you will hear it - just keep following the signs to Tom Moody."

"Very fun hike with a mini canyon and waterfall, petroglyphs, pit house ruins, what more could you ask for!"

"We had stopped hair on the drive back from meteor crater as we wanted to do some more exploring in the area plus we had seen that it was free and had petroglyphs. It was quite weird driving in as they look like to be a water reclamation area and active minds or compost piles before you actually hit the parking area. There are multiple trails so that you can go as far or short as you would like with minimal inclined change, nothing got my heart rate up. At the beginning of the trail, there was a great trail map and an additional pamphlet with different species of ducks and birds that you could possibly see there. I do wish the pamphlet had photos of the animals but I understand the cost restrictions with that. We ended up taking a few different trails and piercing them together so that we could see both petroglyph sites plus the waterfall. Honestly, the waterfall was bigger than I anticipated from the photos that I found on Google. All in all it was a great little stop to be able to get out, stretch my legs and see some amazing ducks in the ponds."

"Beautiful scenic walking path. Easy difficulty. My toddler was able to walk it with no problem."