> Yesterday, we drove it from the bottom in Oracle all the way up to the
> top. It is definitely much degraded from several years ago. We were in a
> Subaru CrossTrek . If you don’t have four-wheel-drive skills, you shouldn’t
> attempt the road. Multiple times we had to exit the car to plan our route
> through some of the rock fields. We only scraped the underside rails twice.
> I would not recommend it for anybody who isn’t comfortable with taking
> routes right along the edge of the canyons.
>
>
> Christopher Vincent
>
> <cj...>
>
> 520.907.8735
>
> WOW Arizona - Web
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> On Jul 29, 2026, at 1:09 PM, Mark Stevenson <aznmbirds...>
> wrote:
>
>
> The county said that they were not going to maintain the difficult section
> any more. It's now an unmaintained 4WD road, at least in that section.
>
> Mark Stevenson
> Tucson, AZ
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 12:42 PM Olga Harbour <aznmbirds...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> After swearing two years ago that we would never drive the Control Rd.
>> again, we were there this morning. The road seemed even worse today than
>> two years ago! We found a wide-enough space to turn around and headed over
>> to the Meadow Trail.
>>
>> Birds of the day were a single Red-faced Warbler and seven Red
>> Crossbills. The crossbills were near/on the ski lift gear near the end of
>> the road. There were a male, a female, and five juveniles, quite a treat!
>> I was going to try to get a photo of the crossbills, but found it rather
>> difficult to get a photo when the camera battery's dead! 🙄
>>
>> Wishing you good birding!
>>
>> Olga Harbour
>> Tucson, AZ
>>
>>
>>
>>
