Pipe Spring, Arizona

We drove down through Hurricane and Colorado City to Pipe Spring. It took about two hours. That's not bad, but I don't think we'll go back. The Spring has a somewhat interesting history and a very nicely restored Mormon pioneer structure to tour, but that is about it. The whole visit takes an hour. I guess I wouldn't pay $10 to go in there again. The old boy working in the gift shop did point out that the road to the cane beds actually connected to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes road. So we tried it. It would have been fine in the Chev, but it was pretty rough and muddy for the Sable. Fortunately only three or four miles of it were unsurfaced. We then paid another $6 to go into the State Park. Again, not worth it. We basically paid for parking when we later found free parking a mile up the road. The dunes are beautiful, but it is an ATV sacrifice area where the motors are forever roaring. We drove out to Highway 89, up through Carmel Junction, past Maynard Dixon's old studio, and over the mountain on Highway 14--another 200 mile loop.

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