Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
eer; a short way farther are three more bat houses with an accompanying informative
plaque. The trail is surrounded by the pine-oak woodlands typical of this elevation.
Roughly halfway around the paved loop, the signed, unpaved Lower Loop Trail
takes hikers 0.2 mile to the Proctor Loop for a figure-eight. Wheelchair users continue
around the paved loop to a fork that gives access to a Madera Creek overlook, to
the right via a 0.1-mile paved trail. The main loop trail passes a few remnants of a
1930s Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps camp, where hundreds of young
men were housed and employed by the national forest. The end of the loop coincides
with the last few yards of the Madera Creek Trail.
Nearby Attractions
Madera Canyon.
Directions
From Tucson, take I-19 south. This short freeway begins in south Tucson at I-10 and
continues to the U.S.-Mexico border at Nogales, with distances marked in kilometers.
From the I-10 exit, it's 38 kilometers (about 24 miles) along I-19 to Exit 63/Contin-
ental Road. Take Continental Road east for 1.2 miles to White House Canyon Road.
Here, turn right and drive 7.1 miles to Madera Canyon Road, where you turn right
again and drive 3.5 miles to the Visitor Information Station (open most weekends, 10
a.m.-2 p.m.) and the adjoining Proctor Parking Area.
The Proctor Parking Area is the trailhead of the first wheelchair-accessible loop.
To get to the second loop, turn right out of the Proctor Parking Area and drive 0.7
mile south to the Whitehouse Picnic Area.
