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| Hiking | 4.55 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 4.55 Miles | 3 Hrs 40 Mns | | 2.18 mph |
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| partners | | Day trip from Safford up the Coronado Trail to Granville with Pam driving and me navigating.
Part #1 - 1 hour stop at the Black Hills rockhounding area for a quick fire agate hunt.
Part #2 - We then decided on a scenic drive along the Black Hills Back Country Byway to reach Clifton. This ended up being my favorite section of the whole trip, seperate triplog to come!
Part #3 - We then drove up through Clifton, Morenci and the Freeport-McMoRan open pit copper mine. The drive through this enormous mine operation always leaves me in awe everytime I see it! We then made the brief mandatory stop at the big mine overlook for pics before continuing on up the Coronado trail to Granville.
Part #4 - After a short stop at the Chase Creek overlook, we soon arrived at the Granville campground for the day's hike. We headed up the Pinal Trail taking it the 2 miles east to the Fry Trail/Coronado GET T and then the short hike north down to Fry spring. We spent about 30 minutes here exploring the old corral/shack/spring area and having lunch before returning back the way we came. This trail is in excellent shape with some good overlook views and I will be back to explore more of this scenic Granville area!
Part #5 - We then made the drive back down the Coronado Trail, back through the mine and stopping along the Chase Creek historic district in Clifton for a late evening tour of this historic little town. We toured down Chase Creek road,the old jail in the rock, the train station, the bridge over the San Fransciso river & returned back to Chase Creek where we then spotted 3 Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep on the cliffs above the Circle K  Took a few pics of the sheep and then returned back to Safford to end a wonderful day!!!
Rockhounding, scenic byway drive, copper mine, Coronado Trail, Granville hike and a tour of old Clifton make this a day trip I will remember for a long time. Thanks Pam (the Blam) !!! |
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