Apache Trail, AZ

The Apache Trail is a loop through the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix.  The trail served as a stage coach and freight wagon route form Mesa to Globe.  Indians, cowboys, and miners have all roamed the mysterious Superstition Mountains.  Jacob Waltz's Lost Dutchman Mine is still waiting to be discovered in a hidden canyon.

 

Chain fruit cholla looks like a bunch of grapes hanging from the cactus.

Twenty Stamp Mill

 

Historic Apacheland Movie Ranch was moved to this site

 

Tortilla Flat

 
Dollar bills are taped everywhere

 

Canyon Lake

 

 Goldfield Ghost Town

In the 1860's, Goldfield was a boomtown with 50 working mines in the district