Date Day along the Apache Trail

We wanted to go out and see the desert wildflowers that were in full bloom due to lots of rain this winter so Saturday, we headed out on a "date day" east of the Phoenix metroplex to Apache Junction. There is an Apache Trail Scenic Drive where you can drive along a canyon with some stunning views of the surrounding Sonoran Desert. We stopped several times along the way as seen below. We saw more wildflowers on the latter end of our journey versus the beginning part.

Goldfield, a former mining town/now touristy ghost town












In Tortilla Flat: Look closely...this restaurant's wallpaper is 100% one-dollar bills! (supposedly $180,000 we heard)














While at the Roosevelt Dam, a rather old gentleman was staring at the dam and told us that his dad worked on the original dam in 1906! The man was around 90 himself and it was neat to talk to him.








We were using an Arizona daytrip book I had gotten for Christmas from a friend. It mentioned the Mormon Temple in Mesa so we stopped by on the way back from Apache Junction. (Not quite as impressive as others we've seen but it was interesting to see.)