As you bike this 18 mile single track and Forest Service road loop, six miles of which takes you on the Arizona Trail, you’ll pass several places with interpretive signs describing James Stetson’s innovative but unsuccessful mining adventure.
Statistics
2 - 3
hrs
425
m
424
m
4
max°
Difficulty
FATMAP difficulty grade
Moderate
Description
Kentucky Camp is the remains of a late 1800’s mining camp located north of Sonoita on SR 83.
The mining plan here was to blast the rock from the mountainside with water that was to be pumped uphill through a series of flumes.
As you bike this 18 mile single track and Forest Service road loop, six miles of which takes you on the Arizona Trail, you’ll pass several places with interpretive signs describing James Stetson’s innovative but unsuccessful mining adventure.
Be sure to check out the museum and restoration-in-progress before riding out of the Kentucky Camp site.