Pinto to Pinal

Total Miles
31.1

Technical Rating

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall

Trail Type

Full-Width Road

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Trail Overview

This Jeep trail is 50 miles, including the road up to and down from Pinal Peak and the one out to Madera Peak.This series of easy, scenic roads will take you from Pinto Mine Road on US 60 to the summit of Pinal Peak, out to Madera Peak for some nice overlooks then down into Globe. The very southwest section of the road is eroding and may reach moderate difficulty soon. The main trail reaches 6,000' elevation and Pinal Peak is almost 8,000. The road to the peak is frequently impassible in the winter but is a nice cool drive other times of the year.

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Difficulty

Easy scenic roads with some eroding sections increasing challenge

Technical Rating

Status Reports

2017 Chevrolet Colorado

Open

Ran West to East. A lot of narrow shelf road. A few washes that have eroded enough that got out and looked before I drove through them. A few small rock gardens where you need to pay attention if you don't have rock sliders. At Russel Gulch Campground took a right toward Globe instead of following track as shown to Miami. Burn scar is still very much there.

First off there is a small damaged section of road which is why this is closed. It appears you can use the wash entrance to go around the damage. This is 1/4 mile back from the road block. We meet a nice person leaving a gate across from this wash. and he advised us to use the jeep road to bypass so we could to the entire Pinto to Pinal route. 1/4 mile from the road block, turn into an open area with green gate, pass gate and climb immediately right Steep Hill then left at the apex. continue to Turn around Tank and you will dee the trail you want.

The Northeast Entrance to the trail is blocked by concrete barriers on Russel Road

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