Hawes Trail Alliance

🎉 Celebrate National Trails Day with us on 6/6 🎉

The Hawes Trail Alliance is hosting a finishing party on one of our newest trails, and we’d love your help bringing it across the finish line.

📅 Saturday, June 6⏰ Hike out at 7:00 AM (work ends around 10:00 AM)📍 Bulldog Staging Area off Usery Pass Road

No experience is needed—we just need a few extra hands to help finish and naturalize the trail.

⚠️ Please RSVP if you can make it. Approved volunteers will be confirmed as space allows. To maintain quality and safety, we need to keep a manageable Crew Lead-to-Volunteer ratio, so spots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

What to bring:💧 Water🥨 Snacks🥾 Good shoes or boots👖 Long pants🕶️ Sunglasses or other eye protection🧤 Gloves

🔨 No tools needed.🚸 Please note: No children under 12.

Feel free to comment below or send us a message with any questions.

Can’t make it but still want to support the trails?
Sign up for our volunteer list or make a donation at hawestrailalliance.com.

See you on the trail! 🤘🌵

✨The Freehub 17.1 Giveback Campaign was a huge success! We’re incredibly excited to share that together we raised $18,466 for the trails and future projects ahead. 🙌
✨Thank you SO much for choosing us for your campaign! Thank you for donating the beautiful bike!! Thank you for the rack 🤘🏼

A huge congratulations to Martha Merrick, the winner of the Freehub 17.1 Giveback Campaign! Martha is a local rider from Apache Junction who has watched Hawes grow and evolve over nearly 30 years of riding the area. We couldn’t think of a more fitting winner to celebrate this community and everything these trails represent.

We asked Martha a couple questions about Hawes and the future of the trail system:

Q: What’s your favorite trail at Hawes?
“That’s a hard one! I don’t have just one favorite trail, but we have a loop we ride regularly: Maricopa Madness to Scorpion, Scorpion Alley, then Bush Lite back up Wild Horse.”

Q: What are you most excited about that the Hawes Trail Alliance is working on?
“The new green and blue trails. So far my favorite is Diamondback because it’s such a great trail back to the NRA parking lot.”

Thank you to everyone who donated, supported, volunteered, and continues to believe in what we’re building together.🤘🏼

🚨10,000+ volunteer hours. 35+ miles of new trail built. Ridership tripled.

Hawes keeps getting better because this community shows up. 👊 And we’re hoping you’ll show up again by Joining the Alliance! 🫵

Here’s what you helped make happen:

☑️ 26 miles of new trails added in our first 5 years

☑️ Nearly 10 miles of recently approved Master Plan 2.0 trails built in less than a month

☑️ First-ever real parking lot at Hawes.

☑️ First restroom at Hawes. You’re welcome 😉

And there’s much, much more ahead:
➡️ Master Plan 2.0 buildout - still rolling strong!
➡️ Continued collaboration with Tonto National Forest on a massive Raccoon Bluff Trail Plan focused on the Salt River and Bulldog/Lone Mountain sides.
➡️ Future event parking lot near Raccoon Bluff (formerly C**n Bluff).

✨ Keep this momentum going - JOIN the alliance by becoming an annual member! Chip in what feels right. No tiers, no minimums. 100% volunteer-run. Every dollar goes straight to making Hawes the best trail system in AZ!!

⬆️⬆️ HTA Membership Link in Bio ⬆️⬆️

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‼️HTA needs your help before it gets TOO HOT! ☀️🌵

May 16th 7am-TBD
May 17th 7am- TBD

No experience needed — we need volunteers to help finish and naturalize the new trails so they look like they’ve been here for years.

Current focus:
🔥 Diamondback
🔥 Phon Loop

RSVP to get approved to attend.
Spots are limited to keep quality trail crews, so it’s first come, first served.

Bring:
💧 Water
🥾 Boots/shoes
👖 Long pants
🕶️ Eye protection
🪴 A rake if you have one

⚠️ No kids under 12.

Parking details coming soon. Questions? PM us!

Can’t make it but still want to help?
💵 Donate
or join the volunteer list at hawestrailalliance.com

🚨 ALL NEW TRAILS ARE NOW OPEN at Hawes Trail System

Get out and ride the newest additions to the system! Please ride the trails in the recommended direction shown on Trailforks.

These fresh-cut trails still need help packing in, so every tire on dirt helps! Expect some soft spots while they continue to settle in. 👊

🔥 Newly Opened Trails:
• Diamond Back
• RMR Extension
• Rush Back
• BLE Extension
• A Phon Loop
• Little Bit

🦂 Scorpion Team Volunteer Day — May 9
🌵 Public Volunteer Day — May 16
More info coming soon!

Huge thanks to everyone who has helped make these trails happen. Now let’s get out there, ride, and pack them in! 🚵

Not the post we want to have.

This isn’t the first time this has happened. We repaired damage just last month.

This bathroom was built and is maintained by Hawes Trail Alliance through local fundraisers and volunteers. This kind of vandalism doesn’t make a statement—it damages something that belongs to our entire community.

If you see anything suspicious, please report it to authorities so we can help stop it.

Red Mountain Access Trail is officially open!! 🎉

Master Plan 2.0 is underway—and we’re just getting started. In only a few days, we’ve already completed 0.5 miles of the 20-mile vision. So many more miles (and smiles) ahead!

⚠️ The trail is still soft and needs some tires and moisture for compaction—so go wash your cars and do a little rain dance for us 💃🌧️

This new 0.5-mile stretch is a perfect connector—finish your RMR lap and roll straight into a smooth, flowy descent back to the parking lot. 🙌

With your continued support—through donations (link in bio ⬆️) and volunteer hours 💵💪—we’re building something truly special.

Let’s keep the momentum going! 🚜🪏

👊🏽Thank you

🚜🎉 Big News—We’re Breaking Ground!

Master Plan 2.0 is officially approved by Tonto—and we couldn’t be more fired up! 🙌🏽

We’re kicking things off in a big way: 20 miles of trail in the works, starting with a machine-cut extension of Red Mountain Rush—adding another ½ mile all the way to the new parking lot.

This is just the beginning. 🙌 Trail days are coming soon, so get ready to help volunteer🪏

Huge shoutout to and for helping bring this vision to life.

With your continued support—through donations and volunteer hours 💵💪—we’re building something truly epic.
Let’s go!🎉💵🚜🪏

✨We are stoked!!!
Join Canyon, Braydon Bringhurst, and the Hawes Trail Alliance this Feb 28 at Hawes! Tech climbing skills, cornering clinics, mindset, and bike demos at the new Red Mountain Parking lot!

Spots are limited so please check our link on the bio for their sign up ✌🏼

✨Hawesfest is this SATURDAY✨

When 1/31/26

Where - Boulder Mountain Park
3250 N Red Mountain, Mesa, AZ 85207

Get ready for an epic Saturday! Come out to Hawesfest, a FREE community event that's going to be LIT! Swing by the tent, say what's up, grab some merch, and spill your favorite trail secrets!

Shoutout to our rad community heroes and all the volunteers for making this happen!

Life is just better on a bicycle 😉