Category Ranking
Best National Parks for Experienced Hikers in Arizona
The top Arizona national parks for experienced hikers, ranked by experienced hikers score.
Updated
#1 
Grand Canyon National Park
Moderate Crowds
The Colorado River carved through two billion years of rock to create a chasm one mile deep and 277 miles long at the South Rim.
#2 
Saguaro National Park
Very Crowded
Giant saguaros, some 200 years old and 40 feet tall, frame both sides of Tucson in the densest stands of these iconic cacti anywhere.
#3 
Petrified Forest National Park
Moderate Crowds
Twenty-eight miles of road through technicolor badlands where 225-million-year-old trees turned to stone sprawl wider than cars.