Ok boys...Some of us have jobs and families too. Quite honesty, I haven't worried about routes because this area isn't full of good roads we can all ride. There are enough for a weekend, but that's about it. Also, all of them are relatively long and easy to map out. My problem is, I know the area, but not by road #, I just know how to get from A to F.
From SC, one can ride north on 180 to 191 and hit Alpine for lunch. Then run down 191 to the three way south of Clifton at 78. That will take you back to 180 where you can turn south and back to SC.
152 is the Black Range that has the potential to be a great road if it's in good shape. It only goes to Hillsboro or I25. If you wanna grab 25 south to US70, you can ride over to White Sands and hang out. Take lots of water, a hat, shorts, flipflops and a lunch.
There are small loops of fun roads that have almost no services but are very pretty. You can take 15 to the Gila Cliff Dwellings and come back down 35 to 152 and back to Silver. There are also the Gila Hot Springs.
I'm not sure about Slot Canyon and some of the other stuff people may want to see. Some stuff, like Snow Lake is gonna require an ADV bike, a long hike, or a 4x4. AND, I'm not even sure any of the National Forest stuff will be open. We got HUGE rains last September which caused a big up tick in the flora and fauna...then we had a hot dry winter that dried all that new growth into nice Spring fire fuel. Because some people are idiots and either light camp fires or toss cigarettes, the Forest Service may close them. Hopefully, it's too early in the year for that, but we'll see.
Maybe I'll get motivated at work and print up some maps, but I'll have to see. This area us simple and anyone that can read a map or use Google should be able to figure it out. Stop stressing over simple stuff.
