Apache Trail End

Spilling out of the rugged terrain and onto a smooth new black top road, I came to the end of the Apache Trail here at Roosevelt Dam and Reservoir. ... more

by Lee Craig

Title

Apache Trail End

Artist

Lee Craig

Medium

Photograph - Fine Art Photography

Description

Spilling out of the rugged terrain and onto a smooth new black top road, I came to the end of the Apache Trail here at Roosevelt Dam and Reservoir. Spring on the Apache Trail, or in the desert for that matter, has its own unique beauty, but the views were beyond beautiful, unlike anything that I had seen before and had it not been getting close to sunset, I might have turned around and went back the way I had come!
The Apache Trail in Arizona was a stagecoach trail that ran through the Superstition Mountains. It was named the Apache Trail after the Apache Indians who originally used this trail to move through the Superstition Mountains. The Trail winds steeply through 40 miles of extremely rugged desert mountains, past deep reservoir lakes like Canyon Lake and Apache Lake. The narrow, winding road is unpaved from just east of the town of Tortilla Flat to Roosevelt Dam; there are steep cliff drops and little in the way of safety barriers. It isn’t for the faint of heart! I suggest that you stop for a breather and refreshments at the Superstition Saloon, because from there on if it weren’t for the ever changing vista, you would wish you were safely on black top once again!

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November 21st, 2013