Fossil Creek 8/4 or 8/5

Which day?

Day will be decided by Tuesday 8PM.

List:
08pretaco

 

Camping? Wheeling? Hiking? Drag racing?

 

swimming

 

Fossil Creek is a really cool area. Beautiful canyon with great places to swim, hike, fish, etc. Not sure if I would want to go for just one day though.

 

Day trip to get away

 

Are you going up there to do some specific 4 wheeling, or for just general enjoyment? Just curious. Both are good.

 

Mostly just hanging at the waterfall, might do some wheeling if its right thereby most likely no more than the dirt road to get there

 

Patrick's a Sunday, i should have sunday off, ill confirm tomorrow at work.

 

Sounds like it could be fun. If I don't have side work this weekend I may go. I'll post status by mid-weed or so.

 

BTW fishing during certain seasons arent allowed at fossil creek. havent seen a single person there with a pole, but theres fish everywhere. i may be interested in a day trip...

 

sucks you have to go through camp verde now.... how much longer of a drive is it?

 

closed to fishing during the summer months due to increased swimming traffic obviously (haha) great round tail chub and other indigenous AZ species in the spring. Honestly, through CV maybe adds another 20 minutes or less to the trip, I-17 is faster in general and you dont have to deal with the gnarly switchback road that is usually congested with idiot drivers in the summertime.

 

Good to know as I have always gone in through Strawberry, and usually go out through Camp Verde. Why is the other way closed? Landslides again?

 

Would like to go mid week if anyone's interested.....in Aug I work every weekend!

 

Spencer (jonesn13) is going saturday, more of a family trip though. Gf and I might be down for sunday. The camp verde way is definitely longer. I think from Tempe to the lot at fossil creek.. it was atleast 3 hours. The dirt road is super wash boarded out.. and there was some slow traffic. We were cruisin an avg. of like 25 the whole way when not stuck behind someone. Still took some time. Then, another 15-20 minute walk to the falls. we were there about a week ago. Not alot of people due to the closure. Water was perfect. Clear. great day.

 

Yah the road from Campe Verde is a little rough. Otherwise a nice drive.

I will be up there for certain on Saturday. I have some Fam in town and want to show them some of the secluded spots of AZ.

The closure from the Strawberry side was due to wear and tear on the road and to limit traffic. The creek was getting pretty trashed (litter-aly haha) last year and the Rangers were frustrated with the volume of people.



This year it seems that it has been pretty low traffic and the creek is recovering a bit. When I was up there with Josh a week or two ago there wasn't much trash left around and the bottom of the waterfall pool was trash free (last year I dove and pulled a trash bag worth of beer cans, goggles, shoes, glasses etc).

If you guys have any questions on the route just hit me up.

 

This would be appealing if it werent a 5 hour trip for me...sorry guys. But for anyone in Tucson reading this and in the same boat, I did find a nice new lil place with a waterfall and giant pool, called Tanque Verde Falls or somthin like that

 

dang why couldnt this be next weekend i would be totally down but i have to work this weekend.

 

We can always do more too. I'm always down to go. The gf is wanting to go since I went without her last time.lol

 

Gonna pass on this. Heading out Monday morning for Cedar Point amusement park, then going on a camping hike the following weekend. This would cut into my prep time.