Backcountry Adventures Arizona: The Ultimate Guide to the Arizona Backcountry for Anyone With a Sport Utility Vehicle

Peter Massey, Jeanne Wilson

Adler Publishing, Apr 24, 2006 - Travel - 573 pages

Beautifully crafted, high quality, sewn, 4 color guidebook. Part of a multiple book series of books on travel through America's beautiful and historic backcountry. Directions and maps to 2,671 miles of the state's most remote and scenic back roads ? from the lowlands of the Yuma Desert to the high plains of the Kaibab Plateau. Trail history is colorized through the accounts of Indian warriors like Cochise and Geronimo; trail blazers; and the famous lawman Wyatt Earp. Includes wildlife information and photographs to help readers identify the great variety of native birds, plants, and animal they are likely to see. Contains 157 trails, 576 pages, and 524 photos (both color and historic).

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User Review  - EvalineAuerbach - LibraryThing

The best guide to the trails, roads, backcountry areas (including ghost towns, etc.) in the whole state. Includes GPS guides. Best of all, this book gives a history of each place. It even provides a ...

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I recently bought a Jeep Commander and a few guys at work are in a Jeep 4x4 club that do offroading on the weekends. I mentioned to one of the guys that I wanted to take my new Jeep out and see what ...

Contents

• Introduction: 7
• Along the Trail: 23
• Four Peaks Mountain Trail: 138
• Desert Queen Mine Trail: 145
• Mineral WashBill Williams River Trail: 153
• Nellie Mine Road: 160
• Swansea Pumping Plant Trail: 166
• McCracken Peak Trail: 173
• Flag Mine Trail: 180
• Falls Springs Wash Trail: 186
• Soldier and Kinnikinick Lakes Trail: 297
• Long Lake Road: 298
• Chavez Draw Trail: 300
• The Mogollon Rim Road: 303
• Hamilton Crossing Trail: 308
• Chevelon Crossing Road: 310
• Black Canyon Trail: 313
• Defiance Plateau Trail: 316
• Black Creek Trail: 320
• Red Valley Trail: 321
• Sawmill Navajo Trail: 323
• Fluted Rock Road: 325
• Canyon de Chelly Trail: 329
• Tunitcha Mountains Trail: 331
• Lukachukai Mountains Trail: 335
• The Central Region: 337
• Palm Canyon Road: 342
• Kofa Queen Canyon Trail: 343
• King Valley Road: 344
• McPherson Pass Trail: 347
• Big Eye Wash Trail: 350
• Engesser Pass Trail: 353
• Hoodoo Wash Trail: 356
• Bighorn Pass Trail: 358
• Red Raven Road: 360
• Hovatter Road: 363
• Harquahala Mine Trail: 365
• Harquahala Mountain Trail: 368
• Big Horn Mountains Trail: 370
• Saddle Mountain Trail: 374
• Agua Caliente Road: 375
• Robbins Butte Wildlife Area Trail: 378
• Margies Peak Trail: 381
• Butterfield Pass Trail: 384
• Vulture Mountains Trail: 386
• Buckhorn Creek Trail: 389
• Box Canyon of the Hassayampa Trail: 392
• Stanton Ghost Town Trail: 395
• Orofino Wash Trail: 398
• Senator Highway: 400
• MayerGoodwin Road: 405
• Crown King Backroad: 408
• Camp Creek Road: 412
• Big Maggie May Trail: 416
• Table Mesa Trail: 417
• Bloody Basin Road: 420
• Indian Spring Wash Trail: 423
• Control Road: 425
• East Verde River Trail: 428
• Mazatzal Wilderness Trail: 431
• Mount Ord Trail: 433
• El Oso Road: 434
• Favorite Trails 25 Longest Trails 25 Shortest Trails 25 Hardest Trails 25 Easiest Trails 25 Scenic Trails Index 437 439 443 447 450: 454
• Tinajas Altas Pass Trail: 466
• Fortuna Mine Trail: 469
• El Camino del Diablo Trail: 472
• Cipriano Pass Trail: 480
• Christmas Pass Trail: 482
• Puerto Blanco Drive: 484
• Ajo Mountain Drive: 487
• Parker Canyon Lake Road: 489
• Canelo Hills Trail: 493
• Blacktail Ridge Trail: 495
• Sunnyside Trail: 497
• Mexican Border Road: 499
• HarshawRoad: 505
• Flux Canyon Road: 508
• Cumero CanyonThree R Canyon Trail: 510
• Temporal Gulch Trail: 513
• Carr Canyon Trail: 515
• Mule Mountains Trail: 516
• Tex Canyon Trail: 518
• Pinery Canyon Trail: 521
• Hands Pass Trail: 524
• Pine Canyon Trail: 528
• Barfoot Park Trail: 531
• Swift Trail: 532
• Tripp Canyon Road: 536
• Willow Springs Road: 538
• Oracle Control Road: 541
• Catalina Ridge Trail: 545
• Copper Creek Mining District Trail: 547
• Sibley Mansion and Bluebird Mine Trail: 551
• Redington Road: 553
• Buehman Canyon Trail: 556
• Jackson Cabin Trail: 558
• Selected Further Reading: 563
• Trail Lists 566 566: 566
• 567: 567

About the author

Massey studied illustration at the Royal School of Art in London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Backcountry Adventures Arizona: The Ultimate Guide to the Arizona Backcountry for Anyone With a Sport Utility Vehicle; Adventures series; Backcountry Adventures Series
• Authors: Peter Massey, Jeanne Wilson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Adler Publishing, 2006
• ISBN: 1930193289, 9781930193284
• Length: 573 pages
• Subjects: Travel / United States / South / West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)