[Az-Geocaching] BIA Route 3

[AZcachemeister]

One of the logs (*March 10, 2004 by Offtrail) *on the cache you mention 
speaks of driving through from north to south. Hard to tell what the 
road might be like today...

Team Tierra Buena wrote:

> Can anyone provide some information on a road that purportedly runs 
> north-south through the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC)? This road 
> is variously known as BIA Road (or "Indian Road" or "Tribal Road") 3, 
> Santa Cruz Road, and/or Voah Shun Road. The northern terminus is 
> southeast of 51^st Avenue and Beltline Road south of Laveen on the 
> GRIC boundary. The southern terminus is SR 238 in Pinal County, in the 
> unincorporated community of Heaton, west of the Town of Maricopa. As 
> you can probably tell from these descriptions, there is a lot of 
> information, but much of it is contradictory.
>
> Questions:
>
> Although this goes through the GRIC, is the road itself accessible to 
> the general public?
>
> Is the road currently driveable from one end to the other? If so, is 
> high-clearance and/or 4WD required?
>
> If you've driven it, and were to subjectively assign the drive a 
> "terrain" rating (1 low 5 high), what would you call it?
>
> If it helps anyone, one of the oldest caches in Arizona is out near 
> this road: Rattler's Art Gallery (GC852). There are directions on that 
> web page, but that cache is clearly on GRIC property, so personally I 
> have no interest in attempting it, and I wish it would go away. On the 
> other hand, it's been out there long enough (more than 4 years!) to 
> qualify for historic designation in its own right. The owners haven't 
> logged into the web site in over three years, so I wouldn't trust any 
> of the directions or advice on the page.
>
> We're not particularly interested in caching along this road; we're 
> just trying to determine if it is a viable route to get from a 
> particular point A to a particular point B. Thanks in advance.
>
>  
>
> Steve
>
> Team Tierra Buena
>
>  
>
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