Trail Report: Arizona Trails

[mkjeepers]

[COLOR="Blue"]I've been wanting to check out some of Arizona's trails for a while now, and one of the places has been the Florance Az. area. This is one of Az's most popular areas.

For anyone interested in going to Arizona this would be a good choice. The trails range from moderate to extreme. For a thourough treatment of this area Sidekick Offroad has a video called "ARIZONA TRAILS". The video covers the extreme trails. On our trip we covered the moderate trails.

This area is an old turn of the century mining area with roads acsessing to the mines. Today they are used by OHV'rs.

We started up Box Cyn, then over to Martinez Cyn & mill site, then out Steadman Cyn to the hwy 60. The hwy 60 & 177 goes through some still active major mineing areas & towns.

Along the way we stopped at an old secluded, turn of the century mine site just as the sun was setting. From there it was a short drive into Tucson.

The next morning it was pouring rain, we headed for home with a stop off at Organ Pipes NP. This is definately worth the drive down to. On this section I think we saw more border patrol vehicles than cactus.[/COLOR]


[COLOR="blue"]Slideshows.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]Box Canyon
http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/n...view=slideshow

Steadman Canyon
http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/n...view=slideshow

Organ Pipes NP[/COLOR]
http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/n...view=slideshow

[COLOR="blue"]A few pix[/COLOR]

Box Canyon





Stage stop building



Martinez Canyon





Martinez cabin





Martinez mill site









Old cattle corral & stable





Steadman Cyn

The best part of the trail




Another cabin along the way





Superior Az







Secluded old mill site













Organ Pipes NP

[Geebo]

Awesome pictures WOW talk about colors..very cool

[mkjeepers]

[COLOR="Blue"]Yea, this part of Arizona is unbelievably scenic.[/COLOR]





[COLOR="blue"]Too bad it was raining in Tucson or we would have explored around there.

MK[/COLOR]

[headhunter]

What a wonderfully scenic place!

Christian

[aw12345]

Gorgeous pics Mike

[dirtman13]

What a beautiful place. Definitely going to have to visit it. Thanks for sharing.

[Russ Chung]

Great pictures! Thanks for posting.

[curtis]

Great job Mike. Really need to go check out the trails there.

[Mike]

I love the Florence Junction area of AZ! Sergio (50yj) and I explored the Martinez Canyon Loop and the Box Cyn area last year about this time. There's a thread on here somewhere of our pics, but yours really capture the beauty of the area. It's cool to see water flowing in Martinez Cyn.

[mkjeepers]

I love the Florence Junction area of AZ! Sergio (50yj) and I explored the Martinez Canyon Loop and the Box Cyn area last year about this time. There's a thread on here somewhere of our pics, but yours really capture the beauty of the area. It's cool to see water flowing in Martinez Cyn.

[COLOR="Blue"]This is a fantastic area to 4wheel in. We only had time to do the easier trails. I know there are some real rock crawling washes up there. The Woodpecker mine trail that features the "firehole" is one, also the Ajax mine trail. We were planning to go up to the Ajax mine but ran out of time.[/COLOR]

[dzJeepChic]

Glad you enjoyed yourselves! FJ is by far my favorite area to play in for local runs.

[mkjeepers]

Glad you enjoyed yourselves! FJ is by far my favorite area to play in for local runs.

[COLOR="Blue"]Our California deserts aren't quite as scenic as Az's.[/COLOR]

[Deepwater]

Mike,
Drop dead gorgeous the way that you captured it.

I'm going to retire my jeep and just follow your posts!

Mike

[flatpoint]

Great pics!

[mkjeepers]

Mike,
Drop dead gorgeous the way that you captured it.

I'm going to retire my jeep and just follow your posts!

Mike

[COLOR="Blue"]Well if you do retire your Jeep, I can take it out on the trails for you just to keep the battery charged.[/COLOR]