Saddle Mountain

Take I-10 west to Wintersburg Road, turn left from the offramp and then about 10 miles south to the "T" at Elliot Road, turn right (west) onto Elliot. Be careful of the dip and cattle guard along this road.

After a few miles traveling on the blacktop, the road turns sharply right and becomes a dirt road. Keep going straight, do not make that sharp right turn, and be careful of two dips in the road.

As you come out of the second dip there is a 45 degree turn to the right. So you turn away from the line of power poles onto a smooth dirt road. This happens about 0.3 miles from the pavement.

Continue on this road for 0.6 miles and there is an opening in the birm on the left that is marked with rocks.

It has room for lots of observers.

If you have a Garmin GPS receiver you can click here to download an Az Observing Site Garmin (.gdb) database file which you can open in MapSource and then send to your GPS unit. This will allow you to invoke your receiver's GoTo functionality to calculate a route to the all of the observing sites we frequent, complete with turn-by-turn directions. Alternately, click here to download a Saddle Mountain Site Garmin (.gdb) database file.