Drive Highway 88 to Tortilla Flats

The shortest way (mileage wise, but not timewise) to get back from Tonto National Monument and Roosevelt Lake is to take Highway 88 which is mostly extreme switchbacks and sheer drop offs on gravel. It is extremely scenic, but not for the faint of heart!!

We had always wanted to take this drive but wanted to drive it in a truck and not the Passat. Now that Don bought the Ridgeline truck, we have the correct mode of transportation. At first the road was a great gravel road, well maintained and a good two cars wide. Then as we got into the more mountainous areas the width narrowed to one car wide with sheer drop offs!  Yikes!!