I used to do the Table Mesa road east to Seven Springs and Cave Creek quite a bit, but unless things have changed in the last 2 years, I would not recommend it without 4WD, as there are quite a bit of washouts that can occur on the trail. You can easily come up from Cave Creek and cruise around on Seven Springs Rd- I see sedans up there quite often, but making the loop might be tough. 


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:26 PM, AJ George <aj.george@gmail.com> wrote:
Patrick, thank you for the info on Castle Hot Springs Rd. I am looking forward to caching out that way!


Can anyone comment on Table Mesa RD to Seven Springs Rd and down to Cave Creek Rd?


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Patrick Brown <panda77@wickenburg.net> wrote:
the Castle Hot Springs road from the lake to Morris town is fine via 2W Drive , some of the off roads are not as friendly. I am in Wickenburg and a lot of the caches you can get to via 2w drive out here, Altho some are not as easy just watch as you go. 
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On 3/29/2013 9:29 PM, AJ George wrote:
My caching vehicle is a stock 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab, 2WD 17" rims. My driving on the local dirt & gravel roads in this area is fairly limited. I have been able to get to the fire tower at T824 Horsethief Lookout cache via Crown King Rd. I also did a little driving on W Table Mesa Rd, west of I-17. I was able to make it to the arm of Lake Pleasant just below "Wild Burro" cache at Cow Creek Rd. There was an elevation change in the road I knew I could not go up at that point. 

There are some other backroads I would like to take. But I am unsure if the truck and my lack of experience driving on these backroads can make the trip. I don't want to plan a full day outing only to have to turn back at some point.

One of the trips is caching along Castle Hot Springs Road. I basically envision starting off near Lake Pleasant and then heading north and looping around coming out near 74 & 60.

Another is taking Table Mesa Rd from I-17 and going east to T824 Table Mesa cache. Then continuing on to Seven Springs Rd and Cave Creek Rd.

For those of you that have traveled those roads, are there any big dips, drops, washouts, etc that would keep me from completing these? Other than the obvious "don't do it after it has rained" and "take a lot of water", do y'all have any suggestions or comments?

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