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

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

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

01:13

4.28km

100m

Hiking

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

Last updated: September 26, 2026

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854 m

Balanced Rock Trail

Highlight • Trail

1.09 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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1.39 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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2.36 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

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3.37 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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3.55 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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3.64 km