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The Great Get-Away Theodore Roosevelt Lake By Patti Daley
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Roosevelt Lake is the largest lake within the borders of Arizona. Located just 30 miles from downtown Globe, 80 miles east of Phoenix, and 150 north of Tucson, it’s the place to go for folks wanting a wet way to beat the summer heat. “Two and a half hours door to door, it’s a really easy trip up here from Tucson,” says Kim Turk. “I make Globe part of my journey – for lunch, to see friends, to shop.” She takes the trip monthly during the winter and more often during lake season, which runs approximately May 1 through the end of October – though many lake lovers also spend Thanksgiving there. Semi-retired, Turk often comes up midweek and stays anywhere from two to five days at a time. She stays at her mobile home in Lakeview Park, at the southern end of the lake. Activity at Roosevelt Lake, the marina and Lakeview Park, she says, has boomed.
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Get Away from Congestion “Covid has encouraged people to get out of the city and congestion and work from home,” says Margaret Rambo of Rambo Realty. “Many are moving onto property they already own.”
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LAKE LIFE, Continued on page 18 Cali Mayfield, 13, wakeboarding at Roosevelt Lake, where her family has a 2nd home in Lakeview Park and spends weekends on the water regularly. Courtesy photo
Creek bank stabilization along Six Shooter Canyon Road targets trees, riles residents By David Abbott
Ira Dickison’s family has lived on the property since 1965. According to him, his family gave the county an easement to the creek in exchange for a paved road. The lane beside the wash is named after the Dickison family.
Residents along Six Shooter Canyon Road have tangled with Gila County administrators and Supervisor Tim Humphrey’s office for the past few months over a project that is expected to remove a number of large trees from the wash that parallels the road. There may have already been 18 to 30 trees removed, according to Floyd Krank, who has led the charge to protect the trees being removed in response to the massive flooding in Globe-Miami last July in the wake of the Telegraph and Mescal fires that ravaged the Pinals. The County has been working with engineering firm J.E. Fuller to create a flood mitigation plan that includes shoring up and clearing streambeds along Six Shooter Canyon Road, Icehouse Canyon Road, Russell Gulch and Bloody Tanks Wash in Miami. Construction is slated to begin in the fall, after the monsoons have passed, and is expected to be finished by next summer, before the next monsoon season begins. The projects are being funded by about $13 million through a 2021 supplemental appropriation for the Department of Forestry for wildfire management, as well as a $10 million grant from the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), according to Gila County Emergency Manager Carl Melford, who touched on the project at a June 7 post-fire and flooding Globe-Miami Town Hall meeting at Miami High School. SIX SHOOTER, Continued on page 14
