Arizona ghost trails

by Richard J. Hinton

To	Miles.	Miles.	Description.
Camp Grant			Crossing of San Pedro
Forks of Road	2	2	Wood scarce; grass Right fork of road to Maricopa Wells.
Cañon del Oro	21	24	Water, grass, and wood plenty.
Water	5	30	Water scarce; grass and wood plenty.
Dry Camp	8	38	Water in wet weather; grass and wood plenty.
Roieta	8	47	Water in wet weather; grass and
Tucson (Camp Lowell)	4	52	wood plenty.

The Rio San Pedro is sometimes impassable in winter on account of high water. The first nine miles of the road is in a cañon, level, and very sandy; the rest of the road to Cañon del Oro is hilly, ascending till near the cañon, when there is a long, steep descent. Three miles beyond Cañon del Oro the road enters the bed of a stream, usually dry; and continues in it to within a half mile of Dry Camp. At the foot of the mountains, opposite Dry Camp, say one and a half miles distant, are the ruins of an old Pueblo, where there is water all the year. The Roieta in winter is a running stream.

Tucson

To		Miles.		To		Miles.
Camp Pinal,	disused	115		Camp Verde		298
Camp Apache		222		Fort Cummings, N. M.		219
Camp Bowie		165		Fort Whipple, (Prescott)		259
Camp Colorado,	disused	349		Fort Yuma, Cal		275
Camp Crittenden,	”	51		Ehrenberg		303
Date Creek,	”	199		Guaymas,	Mexico	351
Camp Goodwin,	”	150		La Libertad	”	225
Camp Grant		52		Maricopa Wells		98
Canip McDowell		143		Lobos, Mexico		214
Camp Mojave		424		San Diego, Cal		467
Camp Reno,	disused	176		Tubac		46
Camp Toll-Gate	”	208

Tucson to Camp Goodwin, A. T.

To	Miles.	Miles.	Description.
Forks of Road	14	14	Right fork to Camps Crittenden and Wallen.
Cienega (begins)	8	23	Water and wood plenty; grass scarce. Picket post.
Mescal Ranch	6	29
Cienega (ends)		30
Water Hole	8	38	Water in winter; grass plenty;wood scarce. Road forks to left to Tres Alamos.
[1]Crossing San Pedro	12	50	Water and grass; wood scarce. Picket post.
Forks of Road to Dragoon Springs	11	62	Water plenty at spring; grass and wood plenty. Right fork to Dragoon Springs, five miles distant.
Forks of Road to Camp Bowie	3	65	Grass plenty; wood scarce; no water. Right fork to Camp Bowie.
Croton Springs	13	78	Water brackish; grass plenty; wood scarce.
Oak Grove	16	94	Springs: grass and wood plenty.
Kennedy’s Wells	3	97	Water poor; grass and wood plenty.
[2]Arivapa Creek	15	113	Water, except in very dry season;grass and wood plenty.
Eureka Springs	1	114	Grass; wood scarce.
Spring	8	122
[3]Cottonwoods	8	131	Stream of water; grass and wood plenty. Road hilly.
Camp Goodwin	9	140	Road sandy and down hill.

• [1] The road from Tucson is over a level mesa till it descends into a cañon, where the Cienega begins. There are several steep hills in the next few miles.
  The banks of the San Pedro are high and steep, and about ten yards apart.
• [2] In winter it is necessary to take the right fork to avoid Eureka Springs and the Cienega, just beyond it, which are then impassable. This road joins the one by Eureka Springs about a mile beyond the spring.
• [3] In summer the creek is dry at this point, but water can always be found by descending the creek half a mile.

Tucson to Camp Bowie, A. T.

To	Miles.	Miles.	Description.
Fork to Camp Goodwin	65	65	Left fork to Camp Goodwin.
[1]Junction of Road from Camp Crittenden	3	68
Sulphur Springs	12	80	Water brackish; grass and wood scarce.
Camp Bowie	24	105

• [1] Half a mile further the road forks to the left, to Camp Goodwin.