Anyone been to Tuweep in the last month or so? Thinking about going this weekend.

I believe she closed.

http://www.azpilots.org/Back%20Country/more_tuweep.htm

I am aon the short list of folks that have landed and camped there. It is incredible if you like barron waste lands. It is still closed. It can be reopened if the following is done:

1 Open link http://www.azpilots.org/Back%20Country/tuweep.htm

2 Read after opening

3 Donate


Simple isn't it

Tim

Bar 10 ranch is just one canyon (Whitmore) over, for a similar experience, however it is now mostly paved. Lodge serves killer food.

Apollo wrote:Anyone been to Tuweep in the last month or so? Thinking about going this weekend.

I've flown over Tuweep several times in last month or so big "X"'s on runway for last several years .I belive Arizona Pilots Accocation was trying to get it reopened for there members -something about Insurance-liability etc.was BLM's beef . I've landed there before and it's pretty rough in places. 2-3 years back Mark Hawkins was trying to get the BLM to STOP from closing airstrips in the Arizona Strip (Grand Canyon Area and north) . Unfortunate Mark Crashed his 180 at Red Creek ,AZ and was killed . The backcountry strips are being grown over and were loosing the battle to the environmental tree hugger crowd .
Join and support your local and state Association to keep backcountry strips open in your area and maybe we can stop this slaughter of OUR Back Country airstrips. The AOPA was working on getting this item addressed when Mark crashed . I don't belong to AOPA any longer because they don't support me a indivagial in Southern Nevada - there idea and mine are 180 degrees out ,I carried a AOPA card and banner for 20+ years but no more .

Bill, a couple of minor corrections. It was the State of Arizona that chose to close Tuweep and it really had nothing to do with BLM. I also wouldn't really blame it on "tree huggers". I more blame it on the bureaucratic mindset of some government employees and the fact that it is easier to just say no than it is to really have to think about it. It's way too bad that we can't get our state to realize that there is very little liability involved here and essentially no impact to the environment impact as a result of Tuweep. I bet Tuweep didn't average a half a dozen landings a month while it was open. I am deeply disappointed in this state's Aviation Department. It's too bad a few of the people in it don't actually understand aviation.

Wayne