Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area - NE Central Trailhead — Attraction in Phoenix

Super fun if you have a dog or more!!! It's obviously still under improvements and repairs, but when it's finished, it will be beautiful and amazing. Up top, the airplanes can be loud, but if you go on the West side - Central/ 7Ave side, all the vegetation drowns out the noise, there's a foot bridge, two waterfalls, and a mini desert Oasis. There are some homeless campsites, but the few sites that are there are well hidden and the campers won't bother you. Walking in the wetlands has a bunch of little trails and lots of wildlife. The East side - Central/ 7St, is much closer to the road, more noisy, and close to warehouses, but little to no campsites. So, West is more adventersome though uneasy, East is more...

This park is lost. Not safe or sanitary. Parking lot full of "campers". You have to walk through a wall "campers" to get to bathrooms and the paths. 3 ft off the paths you see and hear more "campers". Parking lot and first little lake have no trash. Trash from "campers" covers the rest of the area. Seems like parks and rec clean and manage what you can see from road and parking lot. Past that I'm sure they don't want to get out of the vehicle when on the trails for health and safety reasons. Also no fishing...

Plenty of parking and you can walk quite far. As others have mentioned it’s not the most amazing neighborhood but it’s a nice little area & I enjoyed my time there. Would I go back? No as I prefer to walk in quieter areas but this was a nice little getaway that’s very accessible.

The waterfowl stare at you like they are hungry lol but they are pretty to watch.

Not a lot of shade for walking- bring water and...