Tortilla Flats

Today Brent and I took a motorcycle road trip to Tortilla Flats with some of Brent's friends. This is an annual thing Brent and his motorcycle buddies do. Tortilla Flats is located in the Superstition Mountains two miles past Canyon Lake. It was a beautiful day to go riding!

Here we are in our motorcycle crash gear. It was a little warm to wear the jacket, but it's better to have the jacket than to have major road rash if we have an accident.

Tortilla Flats is just a couple of old buildings along the side of a secluded road. It has a campground down by the stream. They have an indoor restaurant or an outdoor bar-b-que patio area where you can eat. We always eat outdoors because they have a couple of old cowboys who sing to you while you eat.

The outdoor patio was jam packed with visitors today. We had a hard time finding a seat to eat lunch at. When we did find a seat, we sat with some visitors from Wisconsin. Brent had fun chatting about his "homeland" with his kindred Wisconsians.
Tortilla Flats offers some traditional western toursit sites like a gunfight every hour, a replica of a stagecoach, man hanging from a tree, an old museum about the size of a 4x8 sheet of plywood, and an ice cream parlor that serves homemade Prickly Pear ice cream. (Prickly Pear is the fruit off of a prickly pear cactus. Yes, they really do make it into ice cream. Brent had some today and it was pink.)

The old metal stagecoach.The man hanging from a tree. This is very morbid.

The walls and ceiling of the ice cream parlor are covered in $1 bills. The decorating of this shop took several thousands of dollars!

So if you want to go someplace a little different in Arizona, where the desert scenery is beautiful and accented by a cool running creek, and the food is pretty good, I recommend heading out to Tortilla Flats!