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Bookmark or Share- Apache Leap - Mountain Field GuideApache Leap is a significant landmark located near the town of Superior in Arizona. This area is steeped in history and owes its name to a tragic tale from the Apache tribe.
- The Legend of Apache Tears | Native History Magazine - BloggerThe Mountain Known as 'Apache Leap' When the women and children discovered their beloved husbands, fathers, and sons dead at the bottom of the cliff, they began to weep. And as their tears fell, black stones were formed on the white, sandy earth for every tear that hit the ground.
- Apache Leap: The Legend of Apache Tears - OwlcationApache Leap is a huge escarpment approximately 4700 feet tall and just west of present-day Superior, Arizona. Stoneman had previously picketed troops on the flat top of the Picket Post Mountain to spy down on the desert trails below, hoping to discern the movements of Apache Indians.
- Welcome | Apache Leap Special Management AreaThe Apache Leap SMA is named after its signature feature, an escarpment of sheer cliff faces, hoodoos, and buttresses known as “Apache Leap.” Upon completion of the land exchange outlined in Section 3003, the Apache Leap SMA will include only federal lands.
- Apache Leap, AZ | HikeArizonaAccording to legend, Apache Leap is the site of a mass suicide of Apache warriors sometime during the early 1870s. The story goes that the U.S. Cavalry attacked a group of Apaches camped on top of Apache Leap, and a battle broke out.
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