"My brother and I parked at the Deer Canyon picnic area, made it up to the trailhead, and then took the usual route up. It's a beautiful area, and we both had a good time. We got buzzed by a fighter jet on the summit." — ZachTeich • Oct 5, 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 Potato 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 dirty shithole with trash, feces, old condoms, cig butts and empty beer cans in the fire pits!....but once you immerse yourself into the enchant..." — paula.raimondi • Jul 31, 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

"One of my new favorites in AZ. Hike through a beautiful pine forest around granite features with a great scramble to the top. Headed up the south-southeast face to avoid the brush. Complete TR: https://themtsarecalling.com/hualapai" — Christopher • May 13, 2018