Updates to Tyson Wash area in Quartzsite

[UTTransplant]

Kevin and I took a drive to Quartzsite n Sunday to check out the construction. Lots of changes! The roads into all the visitor areas seem to be only gravel; the dreadful, rutted, potholed asphalt is gone. It will be much easier for the BLM to maintain. The rough map shows what we found. Our “old” campsite is a small red dot. The new dump lanes are roughed in at Tyson wash. They are just off the main road where the larger black lines are. The new water stations are beyond the dump lanes and shown in blue oval area. The sewage lagoons (two very large ones) are about where the yellow circles are. The new well and storage tank is across Old Yuma Road about where the small blue circle is. My recommendation for this winter’s Quartzsite get-together is to take the “main” road through Tyson Wash, past the new facilities, turn left on Old Yuma Road, and then left at the first big area. The access is good even for big rigs. Lots of space between there and the free Roadrunner area farther south. More info and details will surely come from others, but I thought I would let folks know what we found.

Edit to add the dump stations in La Posa South are scheduled to be removed, but they were still operating yesterday. I understand the water spigots there will remain, but the septic tanks there have been out of environmental compliance for many years.

 

[TonyL]

Thanks you two, but the area you are suggesting would be near the sewage lagoons wouldn't it?

 

[UTTransplant]

We would go closer to Roadrunner, away from the lagoons. There is a lot of open land that way. Definitely NOT next to the lagoons!

 

[Wendy]

Thanks for the update. I think your old campsite is off some. Maybe closer to those black lines? The star on this screenshot is our geocache that is right behind our old campfire ring and that’s our road just below it. Anyway, our old site us definitely out for the future. I like your idea of going to the area south. Whoever gets there first will need to stick a pin on the map

 

[Lou Schneider]

Kevin and I took a drive to Quartzsite n Sunday to check out the construction. Lots of changes! The roads into all the visitor areas seem to be only gravel; the dreadful, rutted, potholed asphalt is gone. It will be much easier for the BLM to maintain.

Thanks for the report, Pam! I wouldn't be surprised if the road from the entrance station to and around the new water and dump stations gets a decent grade of pavement after construction is finished. Not the "make it black" cheap coating on the La Posa South road. If the road remains gravel I think dust would be a problem given the large volume of traffic going to and from the dump stations.