"In Bulllhead City for Thanksgiving with family and had to get away for a respite and some trees. $10 entry fee at this park, then you drive around a bunch of cabins. Very groomed area. The trail has some gain, but is again, very groomed, with benches along the way. Keeps you from feeling like too much of a badass. ha. But once you turn off the main loop and head for the peak, things get a little more wild. Trail is still great until the last stretch up to the peak. Lots of scrambling, and we went the wrong way at first and hit a dead end of boulders. One of my dogs took a leap up onto a boulder then couldn't get back down on his own. I finally got up there part way and was able to convince him to slide down to me. Here's to a trusting bond! Got back from that misdirection, and headed up the correct way. Again, a lot of scrambling, but more obvious trail. Once at the top... so worth it! Huge area almost like a meadow oasis. Just beautiful area to have a picnic. We got a decent peak pick right before the clouds rolled over the view. It was a much colder hike back out. 45F when we got back to our car. Overall lovely hike! I would do this one again." — tmetz1226 • Nov 24, 2023

"We started at 8 AM (usual time) and then climbed up the snow-covered trail. The trial was beautiful with some forest and then the snow got pretty deep. Then we proceeded up the trail. Along the way we visited Stonestep lookout, which was cool and saw some icicles and the Gossips, many trees scrunched together. Then we went up the trail to Aspen Peak. It was steep and had a blowdown and a feral cow. Then we climbed up the small use trail and saw a tall rock formation. Then we reached the highest rock at the end of the use trail and called it Aspen Peak. Then we climbed down to Camp Levi Levi and it was cool also. Then we went downhill and then climbed a steep hill up to the summit of Hualapai Peak. The summit had superb views and a random pole. We then went down the Potato Patch loop and had great views and a dangerous section and also a long slog to the trailhead." — lc444 • Feb 27, 2023

"7.31.2020~Hualapai (8,417’) & Aspen (8,167’) peaks, AZ. Solo, 10 miles, 3,300’ gain, 5hrs via The Pumpkin Patch Loop. Trekking to these low elevation peaks in the middle of Summer in an extreme heat advisory had me cooking like a roast chicken. I loved the suffering but had to go slow to cope. I was also tired from no sleep (super hot at 6,400’ all night)....and from doing Humphreys the day prior. I was running out of water and happened upon an old Boy Scout Camp which had some water Spigots. It was so refreshing! It revived me for doing Aspen. This Mtn Range is special to me. In the ‘70’s, when I was a child, our family would picnic here. We lived in Lake Havasu City, AZ but my dad (who was a full time Barber) sold Fuller Brush in Kingman for extra income. Theses Mtns must have caught his eye during his commute there. My Mother loved AZ and the desert and I think of her when I’m here as she was supposed to retire and enjoy her home in Yucca, a little HWY town in the shadow of the Western part of this range. (RIP 2013)...The campground is a shithole dirty with trash, feces, old condoms, cig butts and empty beer cans in the fire pits!....but once you immerse yourself into the enchan..." — paula.raimondi • Jul 31, 2020

"Update 8/11/2020 - finally getting around to fixing my GPS tracks! We had intended to do some other peaks (Hualapai, probably) besides Aspen, but in the end we weren't feeling the motivation for more "up." So, we took a long loop around, which I hadn't done before. It was a good day to be out and about. Gorgeous weather, if a little warm by the end of our loop. " — psychikingjes • May 9, 2020

"What a fun day! Left Vegas at 6 AM, on the trail at Hualapai Mountain Park by a little after 8 AM. We did a rather large and circuitous route to bag three peaks in one go. Aspen Peak was first, entirely on trail to the summit. Didn't find a benchmark or a register (this would be a recurring theme throughout the day). From Aspen, we backtracked down the summit trail to the Potato Chip Loop trail and over to the Hayden Peak trails. Our original plan was to walk up the service road for the microwave and cell towers at the top of Hayden, but we took the trail - it wasn't quite as steep. However, the trail did not lead to the summit, so about 400' below the summit we cut off of the trail and over to the service road to ascend to the peak. The service road was steep, steep, steep! Tons of steep switchbacks. We walked all the way up to as close to the peak as we could find, since Hayden was literally bristling with antennae and towers. Once again, no benchmark (that we found), no summit register. From Hayden, our original plan (looking at the topo maps) was to traverse across the ridgeline from Hayden to Hualapai. HA! What topo maps fail to convey are massive cliffs. We didn't bring our r..." — psychikingjes • Apr 27, 2019