South Mountain Park and Preserve: Judith Tunnell Accessible Trails & Dobbins Lookout

About this adventure

Covering more than 16,000 acres, South Mountain Park and Preserve is one of the largest municipal parks in the United States. Near the South Mountain Environmental Education Center, the Judith Tunnell Trail offers two barrier-free, paved half-mile loops engineered for families with strollers and visitors with mobility devices, complete with resting benches, tactile animal sculptures, and educational ramadas. Families can also take a scenic drive up Summit Road directly to Dobbins Lookout at 2,330 feet elevation. At the lookout, a historic stone observation tower built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s provides breathtaking, panoramic 360-degree vistas across the entire Valley of the Sun skyline with no strenuous climbing required.