When we went 4wheeling on the Barry Goldwater there were some other things we saw besides the border wall. At various points out in this vast desert there are emergency call boxes. The top picture is one of these call boxes with the huge antennae. If you use it then you had better be in real trouble and the sign on it warns you it may take up to an hour to get to you. They put these in place across the Barry Goldwater area after a number of illegal aliens died trying to cross the desert. It is also nice for those of us who choose to go 4wheeling out here since there isn't a lot of cell coverage.
The other picture is showing the way to follow the Devil's Highway. You can take this "road" all they way over to Ajo a town west of Tucson. We had friends that drove most of it and it took them a good twelve hours. It used to be a road back in the forties that tourists followed by mistake and would get stuck in the sand and many died in the heat of the summer because there aren't any ready water sources. It is still not an easy road/trail to follow.
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