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AZ Outlaws Driving Event
April 12-14, 2019
Outlaws Annual Bulldog Kliffs Rennen
Our annual Bulldog Kliffs Rennen is now scheduled for the weekend of April 12-14, and we will return to some favorite roads and locations in Alpine and New Mexico too. Beware... to get there you will drive the infamous Coronado Trial, previously known as the Devil's Highway.
Now designated a National Scenic Byway, the Coronado Trail winds for more than a hundred miles from the twin cities of Eagar and Springerville in the north to the twin cities of Clifton and Morenci in the south. In between, the route follows the trail used in 1540 by Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado as he searched for the fabled “Seven Cities of Cibola.” He wasn’t joy-riding in a 356, but he surely marveled at the views, which begin among the rolling grasslands on the outskirts of Eagar. According to DangerousRoads.org, the road is narrow and winding, dipping from one curve to the next and it’s said to have 460 curves. The highest point of the road is located 4 miles south of Hannagan Meadow, in Greenlee County. It reaches 9,370 ft (2.743m) above the sea level. It's one of the highest mountain roads of Arizona.
This road is very exciting and sometimes very exposed and unsecured driveway in innumerable twists and turns. This infamous road is tightly hairpinned and bumped, an exquisite winding mountain drive with sharp and blind curves and hairpin switchbacks leading the traveler over the mountains. The entire road is paved but it’s one of the least traveled federal highways. This is a meandering, moseying, slow-motion drive in any car other than a 356. The 123 miles of pavement between Springerville and Morenci feature 460 curves skirting the eastern edge of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests.
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