The Arizona TiPi Glamping Experience - Young, AZ
What's Nearby?
The epic Mogollon Rim and much more beckon when the clock strikes day trip-thirty.
Adventursome Adventurers DIG Adventurous Adventures
Try saying THAT real fast a couple hundred times!
Often, our guests arrive intending to explore this most excellent area, but end up so content with the TiPi and Young that they stay put and recharge in leisure. We totally get it.
For those who manage to briefly tear themselves from our warm and fuzzy embrace, the area offers much.
As always, exercise good judgment and avoid backcountry roads when muddy to both keep safe and refrain from damaging the road. If it looks like a bad idea, it probably is a bad idea. Why chance it? Be smart and turn around to drive another day.
Rim Lakes Vista
29 miles from TiPi
Simply one of the best places in AZ, perched on the edge of the Rim with a nice trail and benches along the imposing rock overhangs
The sunsets are often astonishing and the night sky is even darker than at the TiPi. For shutterbugs and astro nerds, this is paradise.
Rarely have we found a more perfect place to hang out and devour a picnic dinner. The last two times, we were somehow the lone souls there at sunset. YOWZA!
Rim Drive
153 miles total
Continuing W past the RLV, if one chooses to bag the whole Rim Drive, then return the fastest way, it's a 4+ hour affair (not including stop n' gawks). We loved it.
There were more great places to soak in the scenery than we can remember, plus several spur roads, some of which required high clearance, leading to splendid deserted hangouts.
Heck, even the drive back to Young Hwy AZ-288 on AZ-260 was blast.
Colcord Lookout
23.5 miles from Tipi
This USFS fire lookout is generally best suited for high clearance and perhaps 4WD due to some steep, rocky, and rutted patches.
CL is over 2000' higher than the TiPi with slightly darker skies. It has great potential as a quiet and deserted spot to kick back and watch a meteor shower or such.
The map shows alternate routes offering a loop tour. We have not yet visited those roads, but they look quite enticing.
The Pyramids
18 miles from TiPi
A little-known rock formation resembling sketchy dentition along serene Canyon Creek.
This is an excellent spot for sunrise photography, especially if you want to catch Ol' Sol peeking through gaps in the rock.
A nicely-treed greenbelt runs with the creek, which may or may not be flowing depending on conditions. Bird and wildlife activity is often abundant.
Fish Creek Bridge
82.8 miles from TiPi
Perhaps best engaged when traveling between Phoenix metro and the TiPi, this remarkable oasis at the bottom of the desert canyon is well within TiPi day trip range for the hardy wanderer.
Terms like "bucket list" are common in reviews. The curvy descent to the bridge from the W is a jaw-dropper. Seriously.
This is one many jewels along the magnificent Apache Trail.
Apache Lake
78.5 miles from Tipi
Specifically, Crabtree Wash, a great little beach maybe best avoided during busy times. But during uncrowded times, it's a stellar place to enjoy very scenic Apache Lake.
From the Apache Lake Vista, take the 79 road toward the lake and bear left at the fork.
Another way to get there straight N from the Apache Trail is visible on the map, but we've not driven it.