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Ironage Road

Sophie Lvoff (Spring 2017)
Wonder Valley

Do not drive on Iron Age Road unless you have experience driving on soft sand, have a truck, have your wits about you, or know a towing company. Lots of bad things happened to us on Iron Age Road. We got out of the car to look at something and the battery died. We sent our pin to a local JT’er and friend of A-Z West, Rachel Burgos, who came to rescue us and jump start our battery. Then our phones died. Then her dog Banshee ran away and it was getting dark. With our car jumped, we were ready to leave the area but encountered a large sand pit, where we got severely stuck. Rachel came to check on us again once she found Banshee a few hours later, found us stuck, helped to call a towing company, and had to go around the back way to escape Iron Age Road herself, only to get deeper in. The whole encounter on Iron Age Road lasted over 6 hours. Beautiful sunset, though. 

The HDTS Ironage Road parcel is a 40 acre site out at the most eastern edge of Wonder Valley in the Sheephole Valley Wilderness area. Ironage Road is the dirt road that connects Hwy 62 and Amboy Road (so you can reach it using either access road)