Portion of Arizona Trail Closed
Incident: Ruby Fire Prescribed Fire
Released: 6/10/2009
PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY
Please be advised that the Ruby Fire is burning near the Arizona Trail approximately 2 miles southwest of Grandview Lookout on the Tusayan Ranger District. Concern for public safety makes it necessary to close a 4-mile section of the Arizona Trail until conditions change.
Until further notice, the trail is closed from Watson Tank to Grandview trailhead. Signs are in place advising trail users of an alternate route until this segment can be re-opened. The re-route is south on FR 303 right before Watson Tank to FR 302. Follow road 302 to Skinner Tank, and then go north on the closed portion of FR 302 to Grandview trailhead.
The Ruby Fire is 1,550 acres, 6 miles southeast of Tusayan and moving north toward the Arizona Trail.
For further information, please visit contact the Kaibab National Forest, (928-635-5653)
