Not a road to take if you are on a tight schedule, but definitely one to 
take at least once!
I think I would allow about four hours if I wanted to enjoy the scenery.
You can 'see' the Grand Canyon in two hours, but would that really do it 
justice?

Mark, Johnny, & Joaquin wrote:
> Since Hwy 87 is closed due to earth movement. The Hkrs were thinking 
> about using Hwy 88 from Roosevelt Dam to the AJACS event. On some maps 
> we look at it is shows that it is a dirt road. The questions we ask of 
> the members of this list serve are as follows.
>
>
> Is this a dirt road?
>
> Is it going to take us hours to get back to pavement?
>
> Should we just go through Globe instead?
>
> Should we just suck it up and sit in traffic down I17 to the 101 loop to 
> the 60?
>
>
> We don't mind the dirt roads and were kind of looking forward to seeing 
> an area of AZ we hadn't seen yet. It would put us near AJACS around dark 
> on Thursday night if the road isn't so bad.
>
> If it is going to longer than a 3 hr cruise I think we might not take it 
> and just run through Globe.
>
> Being Mtn folk we don't do well in a packed Potbellied_Pig and traffic 
> snarling our path. That is why we thought we would go the way we were 
> going. It is miles shorter but I don't know about time shorter.
>
> Any and all help would be appreciated as we really don't know.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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