ALAMO CANYON TRAIL

The Alamo Canyon Trail begins at the other campground here at Organ Pipe, so we had to drive to the trailhead.  The trail is an easy (though rocky under the feet) 2-mile round trip to an abandoned brick structure, a corral/cattle chute/stone well, and mortar grinding stones. We were pleasantly surprised to see a creek, flowers, butterflies, and interesting insects. It was cloudy here today, so the photos are somewhat understated, but I'll let them tell the story of our hike:

Clouds and cactus as we headed out

Brick building, abandoned in the 1970's

The old corral

Cattle chute and fence

Old wood, rusty hardware, distant mountains

We ate lunch sitting on a big boulder by this stream

The little waterfall near where we ate

A yellow butterfly

Some red flowers blooming along the creek

The one on the right looks like a laughing bird!

I guess I like taking photos of red flowers!

They do have the bugs down here!

Hiking downstream

Some flowers

This yellow flowering shrub attracted an interesting green bee, and a somewhat tattered (chunk out of its wing, missing most of one antenna) butterfly. He posed very nicely, though, and is here immortalized.

The butterfly and the bee, together