Apache Maid Trail - Wet Beaver Wilderness

I did an 8.4 mile round trip hike on the Apache Maid Trail in The Wet Beaver Wilderness. The elevation gain was 1,290 feet and it took me 4 hours. I was the only person hiking the Apache Maid Trail. The Bell Trail follows Wet Beaver Creek to The Crack which draws 99% of the hikers. But after 2.2 miles I left The Bell Trail and headed up the mesa.

The Wet Beaver Creek is a perennially flowing stream lined with cottonwoods and sycamore trees, and as you hike up the mesa it becomes pinyon-juniper woodlands. The Beaver Creek Watershed is located in the Transition Zone between the Basin and Range, and Colorado Plateau. It is one of several Mogollon Rim drainages providing surface flow to the Verde River.