Our Drive on Apache Trail to Tortilla Flat, Arizona

Eric planned a day trip to Roosevelt Dam, with stops at Tortilla Flat, Punkin Center, with stops at Jake's Corner Bar and Camp Reno.

Eric follows Arizona State
Route 88 East (Apache
Trail).

I start taking pictures...

Drivers share the road 

with Horses.

We drive past Goldfield

Ghost Town.

That's Canyon Lake
up ahead.

We cross the first of several

one-lane bridges.

There's a Marina below

This is my favorite photo

from today's drive.

This rock formation reminds
me of a bottom molar.

Eric explains to me that the

road crew is pumping

concrete to a site

below the roadbed.

The view from a roadside pull-off.  We can see rugged

terrain for miles & miles.

The road passes by a
"moldy" rock formation.

Today's Fire Risk Chart is

pointed to Medium.

We turn for Canyon

Lake Vista.

The Mormon Flat Dam on this

section of the Salt River created

this lake.

I'm amazed that some of the rock along this river is found in the Dripping Springs near Quartzsite.

Tortilla Flat is two ahead.

Tape covers the names &

distances to other towns,

& there's a Road Closed

sign.

This formation reminds me of
El Capitan in Guadalupe 
Mountain National Park.

Trucks block the road to the

East.

A landslide last September

closed the road.

Work crews are removing

debris from the affected site.

Eric finds a place to park.  Let's go explore Tortilla Flat.  Punkin Flat, Jake's Corner Bar and Camp Reno will have to wait until after the road reopens.