Originally Posted by
diphthong
question for the locals...it's been approx a decade since hitting the saguaro national park-west unit by gates pass. seem to remember it
as nearly exclusively dirt road (mtb vs gravel bike) once leaving the visitor center area. is that western unit dirt, pavé or a mix these days?
Huh... I'm not sure which roads you may be talking about, I've been riding up Gates Pass to Saguaro National Park West, North Kinney Road to the visitor's center (sometimes via McCain Loop, sometimes skipping that), to Sandario Road, to Picture Rocks Road -- basically the go-to big loop through and then around the park -- for ~20 years, and I don't recall any stretch of it being dirt or gravel. It's always been paved.
Paved like
crap, but that's par for the course around here...