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Balanced Rock in Echo Canyon – Echo Park loop from Chiricahua National Monument

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Cochise County

Balanced Rock in Echo Canyon – Echo Park loop from Chiricahua National Monument

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Balanced Rock in Echo Canyon – Echo Park loop from Chiricahua National Monument

04:59

16.8km

520m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 11, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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77 m

Silver Spur Faraway Trail

Highlight • Trail

1.5 mile gentle trail through meadows and forests between the Visitors center, campground, and the former CCC Conservation Corps Camp area.

Tip by

3.90 km

Sea Captain

Viewpoint

4.24 km

Viewpoint

9.59 km

Massai Point

Highlight • Viewpoint

View across the stunning Rhyolite canyon columns from high at the parking at the end of the park road

Tip by

10.7 km

Balanced Rock Trail

Highlight • Trail

11.0 km

Balanced Rock in Echo Canyon

Highlight • Natural Monument

An abundance of gravity-defying rocks, balancing on impossibly slim, eroded base rocks.

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11.0 km

Echo Canyon Grottoes

Highlight • Cave

Erosion cut multiple archways into adjoining rhyolite rock columns herr

Tip by

12.0 km

Echo Park

Highlight • Viewpoint

Echo Park is a forested opening along Echo Canyon trail allowing a wider view of the stunning rock columns surrounding it

Tip by

12.1 km

Echo Canyon Trail

Highlight • Trail

Stunning rock spires, some of them topped by gravity defying balanced rocks

Tip by

16.8 km

Chiricahua National Monument Visitor Center

Highlight • Rest Area

Good place to take info and water and start hiking up the Canyon 3.5 miles to the Heart of Rock loop

Tip by

16.8 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

8.06 km

5.02 km

3.01 km

736 m

Surfaces

8.04 km

7.06 km

888 m

716 m

122 m

Elevation

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Highest point (2,080 m)

Lowest point (1,620 m)

Weather

Today

Tuesday 12 May

29°C

14°C

7 %

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Balanced Rock in Echo Canyon – Echo Park loop from Chiricahua National Monument

Silver Spur Faraway Trail

Massai Point

Balanced Rock Trail

Balanced Rock in Echo Canyon

Echo Canyon Grottoes

Echo Park

Echo Canyon Trail

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