| Author | Message | ||
     Supertoon |
A little quiz to pass the time for those of us enduring winter, can anybody name this road? We discovered it while touring southern Az last week. Hint, it is a dead-end,a peg grinder, climbs almost 10 000 feet and is not for those with vertigo....... I bet the Az guys will be all over this one!   | ||
| Scottykrein |
http://www.motorcycleroads.com/routes/SouthWest/AZ /AZ_7.shtml This is what Google told me. | ||
| Mark_weiss |
Hmmm, 10000 ft, dead ends? Sounds like Mt Lemmon. Mark in Arizona | ||
| Rotorhead |
It dosen't dead end there's backside dirt, very seasonal "road" down the mountain into the San Pedro valley makes for a great loop back into Tuscon from the north or Benson to the south. Great ULY day trip!! Twisty up and dirt jeep trail down!!! | ||
| Ulynut |
Now I have to go to AZ | ||
| Rotorhead |
How 'bout another SE AZ road? It's dirt and the black line in the top right is the fence on the boarder to Mexico. The elevation hides the 2 other switchbacks.  (Message edited by rotorhead on February 09, 2009) | ||
| Bttrthnwrk |
If you decide to spin and slide your way down the backside of Mt Lemmon on the dirt road, there's also about 40 miles of dirt road south and east of the mountains that curves back around into Tucson over Redington Pass, instead of south to Benson - it just depends on which way you decide to go at the fork south of San Manuel. I can tell you that the Redington Pass road is pretty good, but the dirt bikers sure look at you funny if you're tooling along on a cruiser. And the gravel and sand switchbacks that come down out of the pass into Tucson are... interesting... on a cruiser. It's harder to steer using the throttle and back brake on a 560 pound bike that I would have thought, before I tried that. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
I think Slicker posted up about that road recently. Looks like fun. | ||
| Supertoon |
Actually it is the access road up Mt. Graham just south of Safford. I believe the rt no. is 366. Check it out on Google Earth. We went form 62 deg to 24 deg at the top. Here is a pic where we turned around. Unfortunately we ran out of time and could not do Mt Lemmon.  |
