Amazing USA

Looking for some of the most spectacular scenery in Arizona, then the Apache Trail scenic drive is a must do. The 39-miles of road, paved and unpaved winds and twists its way with sharp curves and narrow stretches of road along the North side of the rugged Superstition Mountain Wilderness Area passing by the South side of Canyon and Apache lakes. Unfortunately, the unpaved portion which is the Eastern half of the byway is closed due to road damage. However, the drive along the paved section in and back out is well worth the effort and time, where the highway passes over two one lane steel arched bridges with vistas of Canyon Lake and Needle Point which provide for some awe-inspiring photo opportunities of Arizona scenery.

Old Yuma located along main street was doomed from the beginning due to the flooding of the Colorado River turning the building's back into mud from which they were made. Today most of main street consists of buildings dating back to the 1920's. However, during the town's early days in 1849 more the 60,000 people used this route to cross the Colorado River on the rope ferry in search of gold in California. Today visitors will find a wide variety of shopping, entertainment, and dinning along main street as well as the Historic Yuma Theater built-in 1911, now the centerpiece of the Yuma Art Center and the home and gardens of E. F Sanguinetti, one of Yuma's business pioneers.

The Colorado River Historic State Park in Yuma maintains some important history of our early military days. Beginning in 1864 the Yuma Quartermaster Depot served as a lifeline for the Southwest military forts, where a six-month supply of ammunition, clothing, food, and other goods were stored. The goods came up river from the Gulf of California on steamboats and shipped overland by mule teams or shipped farther upriver. In 1877