[Az-Geocaching] BIA Route 3
AZcachemeister
azcachemeister at getnet.com
Fri Aug 12 05:34:22 MST 2005
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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