Buck Mountain Connector is located one hour north of Lake Havasu City, Arizona. It is one of several roads originally built for mining in the early 1900s. This short connector trail is an alternate route to or from Palo Verde Mine, making the drive a loop rather than an out and back trail. This allows you to explore more of the beautiful desert scenery. The highlight photo features Cholla Cactus.
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Head north on Hwy 95 to I-40 and merge onto I-40 east. Continue for four miles and exit at Franconia Road, mile 13. Turn right/ south at the overpass and continue south on Franconia Road for two miles to National Old Trails Road and turn left/ east. Continue east for three miles and turn right/ south at the old cattle fence onto Through the Bucks Trail and follow for one mile to the Buck Moutain Connector trail intersection.
We walked the high ground above the washes up towards the base of the mountains as the sun went down. There a quite a few old stacked rock campfire rings nestled away back there. Interesting to picture prospectors scouting this area while the San Francisco Mining District and Oatman just north of here were booming.
Just a connector trail to the Buck Mountains that's the road less traveled. Why backtrack out Palo Verde Mine when one can enjoy a change of scenery of this winding road?
This is one of the trails that don't get traveled very often, there are nice views of the valley and the mountains around you all along this trail. It's a nice option when headed up to Palo Verde Mine to watch the sunset then back down Buck Mountain Rd making the trip a look rather than backtracking on the same trail.
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Cory grew up traveling the logging roads outside Durango, CO, with his dad for his woodcutting business and fell in love with everything about the outdoors. He's moved around a lot since then, from several rural areas of Southern California to Montana, Wyoming to Arizona, even living and working on a gold mine in Nevada for several years. In all these areas, he has explored several thousand miles of old dirt roads and trails and many old mines and ghost towns. Located in the Mohave Desert of AZ in the winter and the Madison River Valley of MT in the summer.
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