Anyone Overlanding/Camping in Az in 2023?

That was our exact thoughts about Lockhart Basin...funny how the experiences were reversed.

 

I live in Cottonwood (Sedona area) and get out locally every week. Always open to hit the dusty trail.

 

i was thinking of hitting up the trails around Mingus Mountain. Interested? Any recommendations?

 

For sure I'm interested. I'm just getting to explore the trails around here. I know the popular ones in Sedona pretty well. Those are fun but can be crowded. I was recently on Powerline trail off to the West and that was pretty fun. And just yesterday I went out wandering through Jerome and past Perkinsville and found some 4wd forest roads. One of them was incredible. I don't think anyone had driven it in a year or more. I did it no problem in a stock OR. At places I had to get out and walk around to find the road, at other places I had to drive up a dry creek / river bed, and there were countless dry river and creek crossings with rocks and sand and stuff. It was beautiful and fun. That place would be a hard no once the rains start, but I would love to hit that again.

 

I’ve done most of the Sedona trails; not power line yet though.

was thinking this trail at some point. I also stayed at Mingus Mountain campground for $10 recently and it was pretty great.

I want to share a trail with you. View it in the onX Offroad app here:
https://onxoffroad.app.link/vSax0uZJXAb

 

Pretty sure this is the trail

https://youtu.be/yTqnAGHVngc

 

I'm game to do that. There are a ton of great roads on the Mingus mtns - none of which I've explored. I'm generally around but might be away for a few days over the 4th - haven't put that totally together yet.

 

Mingus is great. Didn't find the best camping spot out there as I got a late leave on a 3-day weekend, but it was a fun drive.

Took the wife through right as the leaves were turning, and it was quite the scenery.