Anybody Run Trails in this Area?

I live in Phoenix and have driven many times north on 87 to Payson and farther, but I often wonder if there are trails west of Mt Ord. There is a huge valley west of the 87 where it intersects FR 626. Easy to find on the map if you google "Mt Ord." I guess Sycamore Creek runs through there as well. So, does anyone have experience driving/hiking/fishing up there?

 

Ive driven the widow maker and flightline trails that’s northeast of Phoenix, I’m not sure if that’s the area you’re talking about. There is quite a large area that’s all for off-road vehicles with tons of cool river crossings. If you choose to run these trails, be careful since I took my Jeep and wouldn’t recommend many Tacoma’s on this forum to go. Some spots on the widow maker trail are a bit hairy.

Edit: turns out it was off of hwy 87. This spot is one that even the 4 door jeeps had a hard time with. We had to drive up the side of the cliff and let the passenger side tire fall off the wall while we turned driver... Tacoma’s are a bit long for this obstacle.

just research your trail you wanna run and put it in your gps so you don’t go somewhere that will get you in trouble.

 

I found where you took the map picture. It's about 20 miles south of what I'm talking about. Thanks for the response though. I've been looking at the USDA website that has links to maps of all the forest roads but I don't know if there is info somewhere regarding the status of each road. Besides trailsoffroad and alltrails websites I mean.

 

I would just check sycamore creek ohv area. As long as it’s open then the whole area should be open.

 

Just went to Sheep Bridge yesterday, fun dirt road that gets harder and worse the closer you get. Google maps says 2.5 hours but it took us 4 hours to get back in there. Well worth it though.

 

Sheep's bridge is alot of fun, just head east on Bloody Basin Rd from I-17. Download OnX, it is a great offline map resource.