Apache Trail, Superstition Mountains

We are in Casa Grande (Desert Shadows RV Resort) for a couple more days, heading to the "Sedona area" this Friday. We will be in the general Sedona area for 5 weeks. We were there last spring and enjoyed this area a lot. Lots to see there.

Tuesday Apr 5th we drove the Apache Trail. The “Trail” goes around the legendary Superstition Mountains. This trail once served as a stage coach and freight wagon route from Mesa to Globe. The Lost Dutchman Mine is still waiting to be discovered in a hidden canyon in these mountains. The trip was about 214 miles, 22 of those on a dirt road took us pretty much all day. We made several stops along the way. Our 1st stop was at the Goldfield Ghost Town, a booming community of 3-5 thousand people and 50 working mines in the district.
Here we met up with our friends, Bob & Marlene from "the great state of Washington". We wondered around the many old buildings, snapping pictures as we went.

Next stop, Tortilla Flat (100+ yr old stagecoach stop). We sat on western saddles at the bar. The inside the restaurant /gift shop, all the walls were covered with autographed dollar bills. About 5 miles east of Tortilla Flat, the road turns to a sort of washboard dirt road for the next 22 miles that takes you through the canyons.

The dirt road ends at the Roosevelt Dam. We got to the dam late in the day with dark thunder clouds in the sky and a few drops of rain falling, not leaving much time to see the abandoned old silver mines not far from Globe, AZ. That will be a motorcycle trip for next year.