Lynx Creek Ruin Trailhead — Attraction in Arizona

If you plan doing any additional hiking in this area or anytime in the future download the GPS enabled Prescott Circle Trails Map from the City of Prescott home page.

With this map you'll know exactly where you are at all times.

A high profile vehicle or SUV is recommended but not required for driving in this area.

After visiting this site you may want to consider walking the Salida gulch loop trail #95. This trail has actual petroglyphs apparently from the same era as the Lynx Lake Ruins.

For more information Google : Salida gulch trail #95.

We actually parked at the Lynx Lake north shore parking area intending the walk around the Lake.

But when we got there it was blocked off due to erosion remediation.

So we decided to head north to see what we could find.

One of my attached pics will show the approximate route we followed.

Absolutely beautiful, trail #444 is called the Lynx Creek Gold Pan Trail. You won't find this trail in Google but you will find the Gold Pan Day Use Area for more information.

444 is a little rocky running along the creek for about 1.4 miles leading to the day use area on the north end.

Our dog has having issues with it so we had to turn back and head up 442.

This Trail, (otherwise known as the Highlands center trail), is easy and scenic.

You may notice on my pic on a diagonal section following a creek in an approximate south west direction. Try not to miss that, great photo...

Not a long trail, but there are offshoots, and again Arizona lacks any signage. We followed our guts and stayed on the main trail to the ruins, I don’t know where the other trails lead to. Beautiful views from the ruins and along the trail. Observation platform no longer exists except the cement pillars it once sat upon, right at the ruins. It’s odd how they tell us to stay on trail and are concerned that we’re going to ruin it as people walking through it but it’s OK for the national forest service to dig a hole right on the ruins and put six or seven cement pillars on top of it, and act like civilians are doing the damage. The numbers wood stakes show nothing…It seems like this is a forgotten place these days. Due about the NFS mass layoffs &...

It was an okay hike. Easy to find off a well maintained gravel road. The trail was free from trash and debris plenty of parking and a reasonable fee. Two things about the trail that were disappointing. The lookout structure at the top was in need of repair and inaccessible. Neither of us could locate any of the petroglyphs that were mentioned in the description of the trail. Other than that, it was an easy and enjoyable hike, I'd 100% come back if I knew how to locate the petroglyph or at least the area to...