Another really nice place to visit located in Mesa close to our resort is Red Mountain Park. It is a decent sized park at 1,146 acres in size and has a little bit of fun for everyone. The park has a playground with lots of play equipment for the kiddos, a lighted basketball court, a fishing lake, walking trails, as well as a nice disc golf course..
Red Mountain Park offers several of our favorite activities including hiking, bird watching, and disc golf.
Our first trip there was to do a little birdwatching on the trail surrounding the fishing lake. The trail is fairly popular with walkers but you can venture off the main trail down to the edge of the water as fishermen have created a dirt path all around it.
We parked (there is free parking) and one of the first birds we spotted was a bald eagle soaring overhead. Obviously it was a great start to our day of birding. The lake had a nice assortment of ducks on it as well. As we walked along the water’s edge we could see several large mouth bass and rainbow trout (they are stocked) so it became obvious why the eagle was hanging about.
Red Mountain Park’s trail has a nice assortment of vegetation so were able to spot lots of woodland and grassland birds as well as the aquatic ones in and around the pond.
Our next trip to Red Mountain Park we decided to play a little disc golf. The park has a disc golf course called Red Mountain Disc Golf Course. There are two courses with 36 holes in total. The course has a 4.3-star rating and we found it quite enjoyable even though it was a bit difficult to locate each hole in the proper order.
The course was fun and has a good layout zigzagging through desert shrubbery. Holes are of a nice range of hole lengths with none too far apart. There are a few Ace opportunities throughout the course making it even more fun even though neither of us achieved an Ace. But who know, maybe next time…
That does sound like a nice park to enjoy on q nice day.
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