As most path descriptions accurately state, the Parsons Spring Trail begins by crossing through an old picket gate, then through a series of steps, makes a gradual decent, roughly about a 200 foot drop to the canyon bottom. Along the way in which you will move an indication for Parson Spring Trail & Packard Mesa Path, just keep left for the Parson Spring Trail. Once on the canyon backside, the trail begins by following alongside the gorgeous Sycamore Creek, a dense and thickly forested riparian habitat space that at this time of the year, late October via November, was beginning …