Flagstaff/Northern AZ Thread

Im up the road at the Grand Canyon, be sure to say hey when you visit!

 

Dont eliminate Prescott/Prescott Valley, Dewey and other stuff out in the Granite Mtn area.

 

If you like wind and mud and free ranging cows Prescott/Chino/Paulden is great.

One of the houses I built had no fencing and the cows ended up on the front porch licking all the windows.

 

Question for you northern folk, when does upper lake mary typically unfreeze? Im just itching to do some spring fishing already.

 

Heading up the hill this weekend

how are the roads looking?

i-17 route

 

Fine.

 

Highways and main routes are fine.

Downtown and in the neighborhoods have some snowpiles and ice

 

Hello! FNG and day trip/camp in Flagstaff area monthly… Hoping to meet like minded campers and outdoorsy people!

 

Flagstaff Overland just posted this on instagram

 

Woohoooo. I’ll be in phx

 

Yea, I'll probably head out for a lil bit and maybe camp Sat night with the kids.
Working Sat Am for a few hours though

 

Mormon Lake is a ........lake again. Full

 

Yeah. Wife and I drove out to see everything last weekend. Upper lake Mary is overflowing. Lower lake Mary is 100% full and Mormon lake was looking pretty full as well

 

Thats amazing, Ill have to cruise out there and check them out

 

Side note.


https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/cinder-hills-takeover.797502/page-3#post-28591232

 

So is upper lake mary still icy or is it all thawed out?

 

I havent seen it with my own eyes but based on the snowmelt in town and on the surrounding mountains, and how warm its been, Id wager the lake is not frozen.

 

There’s still a good bit of ice on upper lake Mary but a lot has melted

 

All-righty then.... Take 2!

What's up peeps, so we actually made it to AZ last year and had a poke around, stayed in Yuma, Phoenix/Scottsdale, then Camp Verde, Prescott, visited Sedona then down to Tombstone and off to NM after that. We originally thought AZ (Sedona in particular) was going to be our final destination after leaving HI, buying a TT in Seattle and exploring the west coast on the way to AZ. When we arrived in AZ things just didn't click and when we visited Sedona in February it was crazy, trails and streets buzzing with atv's, lots of noise, hecticness and general craziness. It was not what we expected. Stunned we left AZ and aimlessly went on to visit, NM CO UT NV before heading back to Seattle to regroup... We ended up towing some 8k miles and have so far spent nearly every night since Nov '21 in this tin can!

We've now just spent the winter in Bend, OR, had temps down below zero and survived. We're on the move again, back to AZ, friends have a rental in Goodyear that we're going to take advantage of so we're swapping cold and trains for crazy hot & jets with the intent of getting up to Flag to explore as a place to settle (which we didn't first time around). I have a 25ft TT that I'm thinking of storing up in Flag so 1. I don't have to drag it up the hill multiple times and 2. It won't melt.

I wanted to ask a couple of things...

1. Is anyone is lucky enough to have lots of land that they would rent a spot for me to store the RV?

2. Is BLM land access plentiful enough up around Flag for me to drag the trailer into the woods & explore? (plus is it safe enough to leave TT in the woods whilst off for the day?)

Photo of my TT a couple of weeks ago

Looking forward to coming back to AZ!

 

1: Wish I did have some land...
2: Yea you could leave it just lock it down tight...
3: Lots of areas just snoop and look around...

Sedona has sadly become trashed in the last few years due to 'influencers' and the like. I'd love to take the 2 hour drive into Sedona
and explore around but I'm getting a bit long in the tooth to deal with idiots and the like, especially crowds of them.