{"id":995249,"date":"2011-09-18T03:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T03:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidjcorcoran.com\/highways\/az\/azroutes\/?p=249"},"modified":"2011-12-02T22:05:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T22:05:24","slug":"state-route-288-sr-188-to-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=995249","title":{"rendered":"State Route 288, SR 188 to Gila CR 512"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AMP: <\/strong>258<\/p>\n

Location: <\/strong>SR 288 and SR 188, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield at the beginning of SR 288. The road starts at milepost 258 and heads up to Young. The road alternates between paved and unpaved, but is mostly paved.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>264<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and Cherry Creek Rd, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield before Cherry Creek Rd as we cross the Salt River<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>267<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and nothing, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield a couple miles later after no intersection or anything<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>270<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and NF-60, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

A couple miles later, we’ll approach NF-60. Follow unpaved 60 towards Salome Creek and SR 188. Stay on 288 for Young<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>279<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 at the end of the paved road, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

About 9 miles later, pavement ends and we’re on dirt until we get into the Young area<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>280<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 at the end of the paved road, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield shortly after pavement ends<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>283<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and NF-152, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

A couple miles later, we’ll approach Forest Rd 152, which serves a campground and is actually an old SR 288 alignment<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>289<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and NF-561, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

Follow Forest Rd 561 to McFadden Peak. We’re 16 miles from Young<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>294<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and NF-203<\/p>\n

Follow Forest Rd 203 to Board Tree Saddle, which is just one place<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>297<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and NF-486, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

Turn left for Forest Rd 486, which heads to a couple ranches.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>305<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and County Rd, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

A few miles later, the pavement resumes as we enter the surprisingly well populated Young. There are about 500 people in this valley and it is completely inaccessible by paved road<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>305<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and County Rd, Young, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

Welcome to Young!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>305<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and County Rd, Young, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield as we enter Young<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>307<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and NF-54, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

As we head out of Young, follow NF-54 to SR 260. I mean, you could, I guess. Stay on 288 for the more efficient route.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>310<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and CR 512, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

As 288 is about to end, we’re instructed turn left for a forest road to SR 260 west and Gila County 512 to SR 260 east<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>311<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0SR 288 and CR 512, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

At that junction, SR 288 ends<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>311<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 288 and CR 512, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

As the state highway ends, state maintenance ends as well<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Location: <\/strong>Gila CR 512 and SR 288, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

The road continues as Gila County Road 512, which is paved for a little while<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

AMP: <\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NF-512 and Gila CR 512, Gila Cty<\/p>\n

<\/strong>A few miles later, pavement and county maintenance ends and the road continues as Forest Road 512, which terminates at SR 260 a few miles north of here<\/p>\n

\"\" N to SR 88<\/a> , S to US-60<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMP: 258 Location: SR 288 and SR 188, Gila Cty Reassurance shield at the beginning of SR 288. The road starts at milepost 258 and heads up to Young. The road alternates between paved and unpaved, but is mostly paved. AMP: 264 Location: SR 288 and Cherry Creek Rd, Gila Cty Reassurance shield before Cherry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}