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Bisbee: Hiking Cochise Stronghold

 From February 2022

On February 18th, we drove north and east from Bisbee for a little over an hour to the Coronado National Forest. The Stronghold Trail has been on my bucket list for a long time, and it did not disappoint.

The four mile dirt road in was heavily rutted.  There is a national forest campground at the trailhead, and I spent some time talking to a Scamp owner before the hike.  Even though it was a weekday, the campground was full.

It was a perfect day for hiking.


The terrain was rugged.  Cochise and his group of 1000, including 250 warriors, were obviously tougher than the day hikers who spend time here now trying to capture some of the spirituality of place.


Cochise was never conquered in battle and lived in the stronghold for about 15 years.  His body was secretly buried somewhere within.  Sounds a lot better to me than a gravestone or a monument.

This is a 9 mile out and back trail.  We just did the eastern half of it to the divide and then came back the way we came.


 

The last picture was where we spent some time.  I like to think that Cochise's people thought this particular spot was special too. 


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MFH said…
Glad to see you got there!
July 19, 2022 at 6:45 PM
John said…
Yeah, it's time to stop reading about some of these places and time to start going there. This was a special one that I'd like to repeat.
July 20, 2022 at 7:21 AM
greg said…
My experience with that campground was the same. Seems like a lot of the less pretentious snow-birds use this as part of their rotating 14 day stops.

There's also some Scamp-able boondocking spots on the west side of the divide along fr687
July 20, 2022 at 9:03 AM
John said…
Thanks. I made a note to myself for the boondocking on the west side of the divide.
July 20, 2022 at 12:49 PM
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