Final Edition to the Arizona Trip
We started South from the Trading Post on our way back to Phoenix. Crossing I40 at Chambers, Az. and continuing Southwest to Show Low, Az. This area is called the Rim Country because you are starting to travel from the High Desert down into the Salt River Valley. Again, beautiful scenery with quickly falling elevations.
We traveled through the Fort Apache Indian Reservation into Globe, Az. From Globe we took AZ188, also called the Apache Trail to the Tonto National Monument. Theodore Roosevelt Lake is in this area and is huge!
Funny thing is that it is smack dab in the middle of the lower desert? Go figure? We stopped at the Monument which had even more history of the Cliff Dwellers from a later period of time. Very interesting! Moving on, we turned off at the Roosevelt Dam and went more Southwest on AZ88 towards Phoenix….10 miles into our ride, I noticed a sign that said the paved road was ending in a mile??? I stopped and looked at the map….it showed a road all the way into Apache Junction so I started off again! One mile later, at Apache Lake……also in the desert….the pavement stopped to be replaced with a gravel road…. Ok….gravel’s not so bad, and there was no traffic so off I went! The sign stated that there was no pavement for thirty miles…..No Problem! As we got farther into the drive, the road went from two lanes with shear drop offs to the lake, to single lanes with overhanging rock at switchbacks! Then we had to back up at times to let other cars pass coming from the other direction…Some were even hauling boats on trailers behind them! We also discovered several single lane bridges on blind turns…..now that was a Hoot! All the while, we were right along the lakes fed by the Salt River. Canyon Lake was the last when we finally made it onto asphalt at Tortilla Flat. I have to say that we had the best time just because we had no idea this type of road existed anywhere? I’d do it again but I know it would never be like the first time. We came out of the hills at Apache Junction. I’ve posted previous pictures of that area.
All in all we drove 1733 miles in 5 days and had a fantastic time! Hope you enjoyed hearing about it?
Thanks for stopping by. Paul
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