That road is public. At least the dope smugglers think so. CBP and USFS use
it regularly. It's not uncommon for unfriendly locals to falsely 'close'
roads. My BLM ranger friend spends a good amount of time citing people for
that.
I flew over Duquesne a while back and got the evil eye from the guy you are
referring to. I say ignore him.
BTW, Ruby is a nice visit for a ghost town, although also private. I was
over there recently and didn't see any signs of occupation in the town.
-George
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From: "Andrew Ayre" <
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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:43 AM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Duquesne
> Sorry if this is a bit off-topic.
>
> We have some guests from Europe who would like to see ghost towns. My
> favorite is Duquesne, however the last time we went there a guy was
> boarding up windows and wasn't happy we were there. It seems the town is
> private property. However my understanding is that the road through the
> town is FR128 in the Coronado National Forest and that is it a public
> road. So as long as we don't walk off the road we are within our rights
> to stop and look at the buildings (from the road).
>
> I tried calling the Forest Service but they were hopeless. They couldn't
> confirm that the road through the town is public. All they could say is
> that it isn't marked as closed on their map and if the county is grading
> the road then it must be public.
>
> On my 1:24,000 USGS maps the forest roads are not numbered, and I
> couldn't find any maps online that showed this road as being numbered.
>
> Does anyone have any knowledge about this road, or perhaps the number of
> someone in the Forest Service who can give a definitive answer?
>
> thanks, Andy
>
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