[sac-forum] Re: Directions to Dirt Boulevard observing site

--- Steve Coe <stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> Tom, is your site south of the rest stop near Tonopah?  Did you just take a
> dirt road south from the rest stop turnoff?  I would also be interested in
> trying that area out.  Like the Antennas site at Hovatter, the good news is
> that much of the driving is on the freeway.  That way you rapidly get away
> from the city.  Sounds interesting.



Steve,

It's south of that Tonopah rest stop with the too-bright lights, but you can't 
access the from the rest stop.  Instead you take Exit 94 (Tonopah Rd.) to the 
east of the rest stop, and then travel west on Indian School Rd. (mostly paved 
or level dirt) for 5 miles.  The road deflects to the north and then back to 
the south to get around the north end of that mountain ridge. Just as begins to 
straighten out, we took another good road that heads south.  We found a nice, 
level site in which the mountains blocked Phoenix.  Two problems: the rest area 
lights are still a couple miles too close, and you can't get away from the 
power lines.  Oh, and it's flirting with private land.

All of this shows up very well on Google Earth, by the way.

Farther south along that road there is a T with the Salome Highway near 
Courthouse Rd., and that's where I think the promising sites are.  We just 
haven't scoped it out yet.  The Google Earth images show a couple promising 
roads heading south from the Salome Highway.  The one remaining problem may be 
the parade of headlights along I-10, even though it's now 5 miles to the north.

We found it interesting that McDowell Road becomes the aptly named Courthouse 
Road 50 miles to the east of the city courthouse.

Tom

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