Self guided, just the cost of your gas..... take some snacks and lots of water.

Massacre ground trail or peralta trail. Both moderate picturesque shorter than 6 hour trails.

Don't bother with that hike. Do the Siphon Draw trail up the northwest side all the way to the Flatiron and then take a left all the way to the top. If you are in real good shape, you can be up and down in four hours. But for most hikers, count on six hours total.

Yes

According to George Johnston, president emeritus of the Superstition Mountain Museum, the mountain was called many different names, by a handful of different cultures, over the years. "The Crooked Top Mountain,” “Thunder Mountain,” and "Mountain of Foam,” are a few examples. But it was the local farmers, in the late 1860s, who tabbed this mountain with its final namesake. Through the Pima Indians, the farmers of the Salt River Valley had heard stories about “strange sounds, people who disappeared, mysterious deaths, and an overall fear of the mountain.” Johnston said. This influenced the farmers to believe the Pimas were superstitious about this particular mountain, and thus the name Superstition Mountain was born.