Coronado National Memorial

We took the trip up the Coronado Canyon to the top. As you can see from the picture (taken less than half way up) the "road" is unmaintained mountain dirt and full of switch backs. At the top is Montezuma Pass and the Boarder Patrol observation station. What a beautidul place to work.

The trip down the backside was worse. I don't think you could call this a road. It was rutted and full of tire flattening, sharp rocks. The ranger said go slow and it should take about 45 minutes. An hour and a half later, we got back on some of the worst blacktop I have ever driven on. The sholders were all washed away. The two lane road was barely one. Another hour to get back around the Huachuca Mountain range and home to the coach.

This is deffinately why I got the AWD Vue. That was fun all the way.

At the top of the picture , near the entrance to the canyon, there is a thin brown line going off to the left. That is the Mexico border. The mountain in the background is in Mexico.