The Superstition Mountains on the east side of the Salt River Valley is a Federal Wilderness Area with a difference. The difference is that the edge of the "wilderness" begins across the street from Apache Junction subdivisions. Granted, there are parts of the wilderness that could be considered wilderness and it has claimed a lot of lives over the year to merit the designation, but on the west and south, access to the mountain range is limited to small parking lots. What is really the wilderness is really the vast extense of broken terrain to the east of the familiar and prominent mountain shown in the photo above.
And, there is the Lost Dutchman's Mine -- apparently still lost.
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