Roosevelt Lake. Tonto National Forest. 12-12-12

Tonight we are staying at Indian Point campground at Roosevelt Lake.

It is quite different from where we have been the past five days.  It is huge!

We are the only people here. Yeah! It is basically a huge gravel lot with a single pit toilet bathroom. During the summer it may get a lot of visitors because there is a boat ramp nearby. But at this time of the year the lake is severely depleted of water, and so our "lakeside" campsite is really not one. Suits us perfectly, though.

We have been slowly getting back into hiking, after taking a few days to rest my hip. Yesterday we walked 8 miles from our campsite to the Tonto National Monument in order to view the ruins there. An easy walk because it was on a road, although 8 miles is kind of a long way I guess.

We had planned to walk up to the ruins, until we were informed we would have to pay. Our Golden Age Pass would have gotten us in for free, but as I explained to the person working there, it was back at our campsite, needing to be there because that was the rule. Well, it can't be in two places at the same time, so we decided to skip the ruins.

The hip did ok so today we decided to a mild desert hike. It didn't have a lot of elevation gain (1200 feet) and wasn't overly long (7 miles). For a good part of it we were above a trailer park, so we thought about calling it the Trailer Park Trail.

The trail ended at the Roosevelt Bridge, which meant the last two miles back to our camper were on the highway.

Tomorrow we are returning to Mesa for one night. We feel we are done with this area for this year. It wouldn't be a place we would be all that eager to return to, probably. Tonight we are going to a dance. I won't Polka though.

A view of the lake from where we stayed the past five days.