If you've ever wanted to go on a hike but maybe felt a little inti.. Well, today you're in luck.

I'm introducing you to a trail that really is for everyone.

Go!

The accomplished trail is a short, family friendly trail that winds through the Kyle Canyon area of the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area.

This trail is paved and accessible, offering a gentle walk among pinyon pines and junipers, with benches for resting and scenic views of the surrounding slips.

It is a great trail for people looking to be in nature without committing to a strenuous hike.

Taylor Timms with the U.S.

Forest Service join me for this pint.

She's a wealth of information and full of smiles, which is the tree that if you sniff it or you scratch it a little bit, it smells like somebody said like butterscotch or vanilla Nilla.

And that's actually this one right here.

So you see the Ponderosa, it kind of has that fire resistant bark to it, which makes these trees very, very hearty.

And you'll see the sap on them if you go up to one and like, do like a little scratch and sniff, you'll see that it smells like butterscotch.

I can't wait.

It's like the stickers back in th.. Scratch and sniff.

Yes.

What do you say?

You know, I think it's a little more butterscotch.

It just depends on how potent the tree is.

Okay.

All right.

Now .. Hiking makes you hungry.

Yes.

It does.

Okay.

And then what else do we have again?

These trees are so beautiful.

You have to take a moment to really appreciate it and look up.

And, I mean, it's just so good for the heart and soul.

Yes.

You have so many different kinds just in this area too.

You have a mountain mahogany right here.

This one right here is one of my little favorites.

It's really, a vibrant plant that's called our Gamble Oak.

So it is an oak tree, but it's not something that you would think you'd find, like, in the East Coast where they're really big, right?

It's more of a bush.

But come fall, you'll see there's acorns all over the place, and then you'll see the chipmunks gathering for winter.

You know, you just have a lot going on and just such a small area.

Oh, I love that.

And of course, we saw other differen.. Yeah.

You .. Everybody can come and check it out.

So camping.

Yes.

This is huge here too right.

Yes.

This area is a beautiful place to camp.

You know, obviously you still have the shade.

You're out of the heat.

You're in such the beautiful environment and like, you have all the.. just readily available.

Yeah.

Acosta.. one of those really uniq.. You just got a preview of the campground, a picnic area, and now we're on a dirt path again.

And then when we were up, we found the historical site.

It was like a roadbed.

Yeah.

And now again over the.. Now it's all this beauty out here.

Yes, we're getting even more biodiversity still.

See the rabbit brush?

You'll see the rabbit brush pretty much .. But we're going to get more into that pinyon and mountain mahogany territory now.

And we'll start seeing like some of the other key things.

Yeah.

Yes.

I'm loving this.

Thank you for being such a great guy.

Absolutely.

Thank you for coming out here with me.

My favorite migratory guide.

Another thing that I've been loving right here is this Taylor.

These interpretive sign, so much information.

So I need to ask you.

Taylor, you're up here.

You've been doing this for, what, ten years now?

Almost ten years.

Yes.

Well, thank you for your .. It's amazing.

What is your favorite part about this trail in particular?

I love this trail.

One thing that I do love about it is it actually goes through some of our campgrounds because personally, my favorite thing to do up here is to go camping.

Oh, okay.

I have a little, confession.

I love the outdoors.

Yes, but I've never been camping.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay, so we have to change that.

When are you going to come up here and and join us for one of our campgrounds?

All right.

Okay.

Here's the deal.

I don't want to do glamping.

I want to go out.

Like, if I'm doing this, it's on my bu.. I've always wanted to go camping, so we're doing it the right way, right?

Yes.

Okay.

We have all kinds of different camping .. here, and we'll have to get you out here, okay?

We'll have to stay the night and do a little camping.

All right.

I'm .. These are stories too.

Yeah.

You can't camp without s'mores.

All right.

Hi.

Perfect.

That's our next adventure.

All right, in the meantime, let's continue our venture.

Taylor, I'm loving these interpretive signs.

I'm learning so many new terms.

Botanical, frontier and plant explorers.

Yes.

Botanical frontier.

So on the same trail.

We're still in the Costas, but we're in a brand new eco zone, so we like to call this one like pinyon and juniper.

We call it P and J for sure, I love it.

And, you know, you have a little bit more exposure here, but you do see, again, a bunch of different kinds of plants.

And, what are we looking at?

What are we looking for now?

So in this area, you're getting those pinyon and juniper.

Actually, we have a pinyon tree right here.

And, one of my favorite parts about this section of the trail is that we have, like, pine nuts here, and these are famous for giving them.

We can probably pick any of these bones out, actually.

Let's see.

Let me see if I can.

Let's see here.

Oh, so you can see.

Oh that one has it.

Okay.

So there's pine nuts on this.

And you can see that's like the shell of one.

That's the color of what they're looking like when they're in season.

But you can just pick one out.

Okay.

And actually our indigenous tribes here, we have, the Southern Paiute here, about seven tribes.

And they use this as like a prime time source of, like, their nutrition.

Right.

So they would crack these nuts.

You can roast them.

They'd make flour out of it, all kinds of things.

And this was just, like, a key staple of their way of life and clothing, too.

I was looking at one of the interpretive signs, which is wonderful, which is great for fam.. with the kids.

Make them read that .. Exactly.

But sacred again, sacred l.. And so this is I love pine nuts.

I can yeah.

So then how do you do this?

So you would crack it.

This one's going to be out of season.

So and normally be that rich dark brown color that you saw.

But you just pick it out of the pine cone like that.

Watch out for a sap and you just break them.

I'm.

And I'm the sap.

I definitely feeling that.

Okay, that little dry thing right there that normally would be very plump and it would be a pine nut that you could really eat right out of the shop.

Now I know where they come from.

Yes.

Oh, and it still smells good.

I don't want.. Yes.

Right over this, meadow.

Right here.

You'll see the visitor center.

So we are nearing the end of our journey, and I've been in there.

And that's another great place for families to take a moment, stop by.

There's so much history there as well, honoring our indigenous communities as well as our veterans.

Yes.

That area, it pretty much encompasses everything that we've talked .. It encompasses the image of everything that's kind of happened in this area.

And like you mentioned, we have, everything from the propeller from the Cold War Memorial.

That's from the plane crash that happened up on the peak during the Cold War.

And then you mentioned, we do have some tribal images as well.

We have our Scout sculpture, the Seven Stones, that really pays homage to all of our indigenous peoples in this area.

Honor those who came before us and who are still here.

Yes.

Beautiful.

Exactly.

And just like that, we arrived .. What a fantastic hike.

This spring.

Mountains National Recre.. is an amazing location that we can all enjoy year round.

There really is something for everyone.

There's hiking, there's biking, camping, stunning scenic views.

There's picnic areas, of course, the wildlife.

So much to see and do and what I love is that people from all over, not just tourists, but locals, come out here to enjoy all, this beauty.

It really is a magical place.

But in order for us to continue to enjoy this for future generations, to enjoy this today, we have to do our part to respect and protect the land.

That's it for now.

Until next time, I'm Marina Silv..