The Daisy Mountain Potential Preserve is a 6 square miles (15.5 km²) undeveloped Arizona State Trust Land area straddling the communities of Anthem

Anthem, Arizona

Anthem is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2010 census, Anthem had a population of 21,700 people. The result of a Del Webb development on a large parcel of land adjacent to the town of New River, it is a planned suburb...

, Desert Hills, northern area of Phoenix and New River

New River, Arizona

New River is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The population was 14,952 at the 2010 census.-History:...

 Arizona

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, open to the public if they have a State Land Department Recreation Permit. The form is at http://www.land.state.az.us/programs/natural/RecreationPermit.pdf. Residents of the surrounding area enjoy hiking, horse back riding, photography, bicycling, birding, and other recreational activities within the potential preserve. Motorize vehicles are restricted by Arizona State Trust Land and Maricopa County Dust regulations. There is no water

Water

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 due to limited precipitation

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 over the desert landscape, though intermittent or seasonal washes do exist. There are no designated trails although the Maricopa County Regional Trail's Anthem Trailhead is near-by and a number of informal trails providing paths exist and can be used by mountain bikers, hikers and horse-riders. Plant life consists mostly of cacti

Cacti

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 and dry shrubbery

Shrubbery

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. A portion of the potential preserve seems to be limited to residents of the Anthem Country Club

Country club

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only, though there is a county easement from the Maricopa County Regional Trail through the Country Club to the Daisy Mountain Arizona State Trust land. Visitors are encouraged to use their judgement as to avoid intrusion onto Country Club property.

Making the Daisy Mountain Arizona State Trust Land a Preserve is the major focus of the North Country Conservancy.

Those interested in other places to hike in the area may wish to go to the New River Nature Preserve.