SE Arizona Roads Question By ellpee (Read 430 times)

[ellpee]

I'm in Tucson, wanting to do a day tour up NW toward Casa Grande without doing Interstate. I know I can go back roads via ?87? to Coolidge or Florence, wondering if I can get as far as, say, Eloy via frontage roads along I-10. Considerably shorter if it's possible. Can't really tell for sure from GoogleEarth. Have asked a local scooter club but don't know if I'll get a reply, their website is not updated much, not sure they even use it any more. Anyone? (PS, no gravel if possible, please. I'm an asphalt kind of guy.)

[alleyoop]

One that might know would be LUKE he's from Tuscon
Alleyoop

[skyrider]

Yes, Ellpee, it is all there. Pick up the frontage road around Routhroff, Orange Grove, or Ina and it will go all of the way to Casa Grande.
I've traveled every bit of it. With the construction at Prince I doubt if you can get it there.

[bobf]

Hello ellpee. I just drove that road on my computer. It appears to be good to Casa Grande. I followed from Ina Rd, coming from the east on Ina you cross the railroad and turn right. You end up between the railroad and I-10 heading north. At first it is called I-10 frontage road, then changes to Casa Grande Rd and then to Camino Adelante Rd. Then just north of Picacho you will join 87 going east then turn left onto 84 going NW also called Casa Grande-Picacho Rd. After crossing under I-10 it becomes Jimmie Kerr but still rt 84. Keep going on 84 till you reach Peart Rd and turn right. I live just off Peart near Cottonwood. More details if asked.

Get on Google Earth and follow those instructions. It does look doable. I looked at those routes to Florence and they do look somewhat lonely and far between civilized places. I might be wrong but do think this route would be better. Maybe some day I will try it for a ride. At least parts of it.
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[ellpee]

Thanks to all. I've been up the frontage roads almost to Red Rock, but wasn't sure beyond there, especially the bottleneck at Picacho Peak. The back way is a nice ride, but considerably longer, and as you say, there's a whole lot of nothing along 87 if you break down. Plenty of traffic, but not much in the way of businesses or even homes.

[ellpee]

Feb 4, 2014 19:33:41 GMT -6 bobf said:

Then just north of Picacho you will join 87 going east then turn left onto 84 going NW also called Casa Grande-Picacho Rd. After crossing under I-10 it becomes Jimmie Kerr but still rt 84. Keep going on 84 till you reach Peart Rd and turn right. I live just off Peart near Cottonwood. More details if asked. ...

Maybe some day I will try it for a ride. At least parts of it.
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Nice try, BobF! But no way you're getting out of meeting me, and maybe my HelixBuddy, somewhere in the middle. Maybe we can split the tab for the coffee on the basis of who rode the most miles to get there.

[bobf]

ellpee, if you want to meet somewhere along the road I can arrange that. But in my car. I have never yet gone out of town on my scoot, most likely should not go too far on it in town or out of town.

Had we met here in Casa Grande I would offer to take you to a place for coffee or toss in a sandwich as well. If that is not incentive enough I will drive part way down to where ever you think is a decent place to meet. Somewhere north of Tucson. I have never spent any time in any of the small settlements along I-10 so I have no suggestions of where you might prefer to stop. In one of your notes you mention Eloy, don't know it that is where you want to stop or not. Eloy is not real far south of Casa Grande. Lots of folks go there from all over the world. It is a popular sky diving place.

When you decide when you are coming up this way, let me know and I will try to meet you folks where ever, if my day is free for me to do so.
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[ellpee]

All good, Bob, just pullin' yer crank. When all the stars are in the proper alignment we'll work something out that you're comfortable with. I would point out, though -- pullin' yer crank again! -- that the Casa Grande town limits go about 10 miles in all directions! Buncha greedy land-grabbers up there.

[bobf]

ellpee, you are quite right about expanding the borders where they can. Much of the land around Casa Grande is already owned by the original native tribes of the southwest US areas. And a bit north of Phoenix we enter into Navajo Nation, the largest of the native lands set aside. It goes from the Grand Canyon all the way into New Mexico and from I-40 all the way up into Utah, and across Arizona into New Mexico.

The land grabbers are very much excited to get control of what is around that is not of native control.

Will try to make any visit determined to be possible.
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