Photos of the drive to the Tule 4WD Trailhead in the Superstition Mountain Wilderness

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Tule Trail #122 in the Superstition Wilderness has two starting points. The official trailhead is 1.3 miles from the wilderness but is accessible by passenger cars and horse trailers. Those with 4WD can drive to a corral at the boundary of the Superstition Wilderness at the end of FR-1740. The need for 4WD is due to potentially soft-deep sand on both FR-449A and FR-1740.

The non-wilderness portion of the hike is boring--relatively flat through grazing land.

There are at least three Tule trails in the Superstitions which causes a lot of confusion:
- This route which the Forest Service sometimes calls the Tule Trail #122 and sometimes calls the Tule Canyon Trail #122.
- A nearby unofficial route which is more properly called the Tule Canyon Trail since it follows Tule Canyon (it can be combined with the Tule Trail as a loop hike).
- An unofficial route outside the Wilderness area through a different "Tule Canyon" near Queen Valley which is several miles northeast of Florence Junction (US-60 and SR-79 ). This hike heads north from a ranch on State Trust Land into the Superstion Wilderness at Barkley Basin just east of the Quarter Circle U Ranch.
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