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Balanced Rock in Echo Canyon – Echo Canyon Grottoes loop from Massai Point

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United States

Arizona

Cochise County

Balanced Rock in Echo Canyon – Echo Canyon Grottoes loop from Massai Point

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(4482)

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Balanced Rock in Echo Canyon – Echo Canyon Grottoes loop from Massai Point

01:13

4.26km

100m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

Last updated: June 29, 2026

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850 m

Balanced Rock Trail

Highlight • Trail

1.08 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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1.38 km

Rock Formations

Highlight • Natural Monument

1.61 km

Echo Canyon Grottoes

Highlight • Cave

Erosion cut multiple archways into adjoining rhyolite rock columns herr

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2.35 km

Sugarloaf Mountain Vista - Echo Canyon Trailhead

Highlight • Trail

From the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain this trailhead offers picnic tables with nearby great vistas into Echo Canyom

Tip by

3.36 km

Exhibition Hall - atop Massai Mountain

Highlight • Monument

Massive rock shelter building surrounded by an overview terrace, with detailed information panels on the geologic and other natural features of the park.

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3.53 km

Massai Point - Chiricahua National Monument

Highlight • Viewpoint

Best viewpoint accessible by road: the reward at the end of the steep park road are these views high across the wide open canyon covered with thousands of volcanic Rhyolite rock columns.

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3.63 km

Massai Point

Highlight • Viewpoint

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

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4.26 km

End point

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

2.20 km

1.10 km

849 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

1.75 km

1.34 km

774 m

339 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (2,090 m)

Lowest point (2,030 m)

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Friday 10 July

34°C

19°C

62 %

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Balanced Rock in Echo Canyon – Echo Canyon Grottoes loop from Massai Point

Balanced Rock Trail

Balanced Rock in Echo Canyon

Rock Formations

Echo Canyon Grottoes

Sugarloaf Mountain Vista - Echo Canyon Trailhead

Exhibition Hall - atop Massai Mountain

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