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, > > ==================== > > Mark, Johnny, & Joaquin > > flag.mtn.hkrs@gmail.com > > ==================== > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com > > > > ____________________________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com