A new trail has appeared in the Superstition Wilderness. It goes to the cave pictured above. I think you can figure out how it got its name.
I'm pretty sure there wasn't a trail up there when I first started hiking in that area about 12 or 14 years ago. The Wave Cave trail splits off of the Carney Springs trail. I was on the Wave Cave trail 2 or 3 years ago. I didn't follow it up to the cave back then because I didn't know it went up there and it wasn't an official trail then so there wasn't any signage.
The Wave Cave is in the canyon just to the right of the Three Sisters. I think the official trail is supposed to start at the Lost Goldmine trailhead on Peralta Road. I parked in a small lot before the Lost Goldmine trailhead that avoids a lot of pointless ups and downs and twists and turns before you get to the trail going up to the Wave Cave. Always capitalizing "Wave Cave" is making me feel a little like Trump (read his tweets). I have this strange urge to build a wall.
My truck is parked behind that black SUV in the small lot at the intersection of the 2 "roads". The hike was less than 4 miles and about 800 feet of climbing. It gets pretty steep towards the end. My GPS tracker says it's a 1000 foot climb but it also says that I was zipping around the mountain at 160mph when I was standing in the cave. Those things just don't work in caves.
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