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| | Hiking | 1.85 Miles | 3 Hrs 65 Mns | | 0.45 mph |
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| no partners | | This was a fun historic trip. It starts at ghost town American Flag which has some old cattle fencing and the oldest surviving territorial post office in Arizona. When you arrive at American Flag, take the Arizona Trail on the right. You start climbing but the trail is nicely marked and easy to walk. Wildflowers are starting to bloom (photos) at lower elevations, desert spoon everywhere, and cool boulder formations as you ascend. We got to the top and scrambled up a hillside to see High Jinx Mine, an historic site and Buffalo Bill Cody's home at one time. Private property signs kept us from exploring but I later found out we could ask the caretaker for permission to look around. (There's a road that drives up the mine.)
Spectacular views and worth the trip up. The Arizona Trail continues on past the mine (which is where we turned around) and goes to Oracle Ridge. Maybe we'll try to finish up that part some day.
Afterwards we visited "Mountain View Hotel" (now a Baptist church) in Oracle where the Cody family lived for a while. This was most definitely a Buffalo Bill Day.
I posted a Google map of this trip with waypoints using "My Tracks" on my Droid. |
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