We consider a thermally activated transport across and array of parallel one-dimensional quantum wires of finite length (quantum stubs). The disorder enters as a random tunneling between the nearest-neighbor stubs as well as a random shift of the bottom of the energy band in each stub. Whereas one-particle wave functions are localized across the array, the plasmons are delocalized, which affects the variable-range hopping. A perturbative analytical expression for the low-temperature resistance across the array is obtained for a particular choice of plasmon dispersion.