The flowers are pretty.

That was cool to see those flowers on top of those cactus

@birdman5223

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Wonderful☺️

Hey, Hey, RVerTV Russ is taking us all to Roosevelt Lake, Too Cool For School. 👍

Excellent video Russ. The Western states have unbelievable beauty.

Happy Trails- U.S.A. - Russ - RVerTV Fans. Thank you Russ.🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠

@rvertv

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Same to you!

I took a trip from Phoenix, down to Tucson, back up through Globe and also this area...got some FABULOUS photos...I just love that bridge! lol...I made a video about it too...love that area!

@rvertv

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So cool!

Hubby and I have only lived in AZ three years so just getting the lay of the land so to speak. I especially enjoy seeing all these interesting places to visit. Great scenery. Fabulous job of going there and taking the video Russ. Many thanks!

Used to go out there by street bike or Jeep about once every other week back in the late 90's. On the back road into Mesa you would quite often have cattle and/or horses plodding on the highway. The dam has a number of claims to fame on the historical marker 🙂

Great video Russ that lake looks beautiful and full. Thanks again for sharing and be safe out there.

@rvertv

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Thanks 👍

My grandparents lived in Pumkin Center (Tonto Basin). Spent many a day playing in Tonto Creek and fishing in Roosevelt Lake. Great video. Thanks for the memories. The saguaro cactus blossom is the state flower of AZ.

Awesome closeup of the bees and the cactus flowers

Good news about full recovery for reservoirs and cooler weather. Those cactus flowering crowns just something wouldn’t have thought about.. drone view was super!

I was up there in april camping for a week. I parked right where you did by the bridge over look and walked under the bridge and caught to catfish one day. I see the water was up even more than when i was there. That property below the marina is private land only for members now. We used to camp down there for a small fee and use the boat ramp .

Hi Russ, I’ve always loved driving in Arizona, we’ve been to many places in the mountains, been on rides in rural areas, went on boat rides along the Colorado River! Payson has been an interesting little place to visit! Our last trip was to Tucson, also visited Tombstone!

More and more memories. I drove the Apache trail way back when it was mostly a dirt road. The excitement never ends.

Thank you Russ. I've never been there. Beautiful!!! Safe travels!!!

Loved the aerial view over the Cactus. Flowers were awesome! Thank you.

The Saguaro flower are exquisite.

@rvertv

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Yes they are!

you missed out on good campsite on the salt river. free camping.

Hi russ another great tour thanks alot . Cheers mate🇦🇺

Thank you Russ for this and all your videos! It's been 35 years since we travelled there so many memories you bring back to us. We drove to the dam then to Tortilla Flats and camped there a few times was a nice drive where we bought burgers and lemon pie. We miss the travells, thanks again .

This Lake will be hopping come Fourth of July people.I'm a native arizonan I know the lake.anybody that's lived here for years will be coming up to Roosevelt from Phoenix she's gorgeous man wow, proud to be an Arizonan i was born in Scottsdale 1963 I'm proud.

Thanks for another beautiful video, Russ! I have wanted to see the dam and lake in recent years after seeing some video produced by the folks at the Lost Dutchman Museum. At the time it was constructed, it was the tallest masonry dam in the world. Theodore Roosevelt opened the dam at its dedication in March of 1911, but the original name was not Roosevelt Dam, but Salt River Dam. The renaming would not take place until 1959. I'm definitely going to put it on my "must-see" list for AZ! Cheers!

Thanks ... beautiful day and scenery. Would make a marvelous crazy quilt. Take care.👍👍🤗

Love the drone shots of the flowers ❤ you really do capture the beauty of the landscape Russ 🤠👍

@rvertv

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Many thanks

What a beautiful drive. I'm definitely going to try it.

🙋‍♀Hello Russ! Another beautiful day! Enjoyed seeing Roosevelt Lake, & the Dam. The arch bridge was neat! Have a good weekend. Hope the van will be okay.👍

Thank you for sharing this wonderful video. Very enjoyable from start to finish. We do have a beautiful country!

I’m definitely going here next time I’m in AZ. My dad was a power plant operator. So we always visited dams and lived by the dams. Not been to this this dam though. We lived at the Grand Coulee Dam which backed up the Columbia River which that part of the river is called Lake Roosevelt after Franklin Delano Roosevelt who came there when building the Grand Coulee Dam. He was there at Grand Coulee Dam October 2 1937. Love this trip Russ. I lived below the Grand Coulee Dam. You get use to it because the beauty is beyond belief. It was cooler because in the summer if they had to release water it would make the city 10-15 degrees cooler. We could even feel the spray from the water coming over at our house. The water w/o be so much and so powerful you could see the white water and foam a half a mile down river

🤚🖐👍👍👍. Nice Russ keep up the great videos.

Another excellent job, Russ, as always! Even though this is in my back yard, and I have been here many times, it's always nice to see it through a new set of eyes. Good work! Safe travels, my friend....

That was a nice drive and the bridge and water level was so good to see. That one skinny road was a little scary looking, thank heavens they have the wait and go pull outs. Thanks for showing places I've never been. I just Love AZ. Be well and safe travels.

Good morning Hope you have an awesome day.Beautiful place.❤❤❤❤❤❤

Another video full of scenic wonders. Thank you so much for taking us along. 😊

Love your videos!!! Been touring a lot of where you have been!! Love Globe, Oak Creek Canyon, Jerome ect!!!! Going back this!! Thanks again Peter From Maine

Thanks for the video. Really enjoying scenic landscape here in Saturday morning.

Thank you Russ

Spent a couple months around Roosevelt lake for 3 winters. The Apache trail is closed at Fish Creek hill. It was about a 18 percent grade one lane with pull outs. Scary ride with a one ton dually and a truck camper. But the third year it was closed due to numerous washouts and rock slides. Beautiful NF campground (Burnt Corral) on Apache lake. They were going to chip seal and pave part of the road. Maybe that's what the dump truck was about... Brought back memories... Thanks....

WOW ! Your pictures of the Saguaros in bloom are terrific ! You definitely got an eye for beauty. RICHARD

Want went by to the left side of the cactus at 6:05? Love the cactus flowers, the lake and dam. Thanks for the video and letting us ride along, Russ.

Back in 2017 I took Rt88 past Tortilla Flat and drove all the way to Roosevelt Dam and back around to Globe. Took road not knowing it was dirt. Best fun I had by accident on my trip west to Apache Junction. Hope they make the repair.

I luv living in the great lakes but that is awesome russ, thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing , interesting stuff 😊.

Scenery is just beautiful. Ty. 🙂👍

Tis was a place I couldn't get to on my last trip. Thanks.

Thanks again, Russ

Nice video, thank you! Ron PTL USA

Always enjoy your videos Russell ❤

@rvertv

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Hi Margaret Hope all is well

The Roosevelt Dam was raised up several years ago. Was there in 1970 and 1996. Looks completely different from 1970 after it was raised. It was a masonry dam resembling stone blocks.

Very cool Russ! Take care sir

Thank you Russ. Can't wait to get back to AZ. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is one of my stops out that way too. The dam is beautiful and so is the weather. I'm still in CO but at least it's cooler here for a while.

glad to see you in our part of the neighborhood again...

Great 👍 video 👍

@rvertv

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Thank you 👍

I drove 88 from Lake Roosevelt to Apache Junction back in 1990 when it was HOT...122 in Phoenix that day. So hot they suspended operations at Sky Harbor. At 15:03 -- very cool to hear the trill of the Canyon Wren, one of my favorite sounds of the southwest! Where are you headed after you get the van serviced?

Another great vid, Russ! Thanks Brotha! 😎🇺🇸

I think those weird forms on the right of the dam, (in the rock), are the old overflow. I looked it up and the dam was expanded in the 80's/90's. I could be wrong but I think that means they built the dam higher? Others probably know. Love the aerial views of the cacti blossoms. That's beyond cool. Sure wish I could head that way but once again,....I've waited too long. It's heating up already and little rv doesn't care for that so much. Anyway - thanks for desert views. Cheers. 👍

Thanks for Sharing! Great video!

Awesome video, such a happy fella. Love how he laughs at his jokes

Great job, great little trip, Russ!

I’d never seen this place before. Really nice. Gotta visit some day.

I believe you can eat the buds on top of those cactus. Great vid Russ. 🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍

It's so clean 👍😊

Thanks for the video. Love 😘

Thanks!

@rvertv

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Thank you Robert!!

I was in Pinetop in August for my birthday. Cool temp and lots of trees.

Happy days for All the water in the reservoir. That will keep the food growing for us all. 😅😅😅

So cool for school!

The saguaro cactus blossom is the official Arizona state flower. Nice to get those shots of them with the drone. I also recall taking a trip to Roosevelt Dam back in the 1980s with my brother and sister-in-law, (who he had just started dating at the time.) We took the now washed out road from Mesa and drove up to the back of the dam, but we didn't go to the lake itself. After seeing your video, I wish we had. It's a beautiful part of Arizona.

I was with Salt River Project for 20 years and my job took me everywhere. I went to all the damns and power plants, all except Roosevelt.... I never got up there!

It has been a long time since I have been to Roosevelt Lake

Love your KZread channel

you are SO kool thanks for sharing, makes my Day!

@rvertv

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Thank you Your kind comment Just made my day. Thanks for watching

Back in the mid to late 80's be fore the bridge you was allowed to drive across the dam. Sad to hear the Apache Trail is closed. It is a very narrow and winedy road all the way to Apache Junction.

Hello Russ, New subscriber, really enjoy your trips. What camera do you use? Great clarity and zoom. Thanks

Hey rver Russ,,,,my wife and I enjoy your videos and so much information you give us is very useful,,,,, thank you 🙏, we are planning a trip to the Grand Canyon and seeing your videos on that and especially the free boondocking areas and great. We will be camping those areas hopefully we sleep comfortably in my ford f-150 with a camper on it. Q. Do you think it’s a good idea. Driving from Texas ! 😂😂🎉

@rvertv

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yes enjoy the grand canyon and the BLM camping areas are perfect for spending nights

I like your videos 💕

White Mts way north of globe

Been there. Very nice area when there is H2O

Oh man...Russ...I wish you had seen just how far that road goes because I stopped where you stopped...not enough time before the sun was going to set before I got back to Phoenix...darn! lol

Fires in the area a few years back did the Vegetation in. Rains then washed all away

If you stop on the left in the parking area before the tunnel. You can walk around and check out the old tunnel. There are bats in the old tunnel. Pretty cool.

The Apache Trail was the way everything made it to the dam site built mostly by Indians. My grandparents lived in what was called Livingston (1900 to 1907) on the river plain raising vegetables and hay; which ended up in Globe; taking two days to reach.

I was up to the dam in the early nineties and the gates were open letting out a lot of water.

Apache trail

The Movie, "Jake's Corner" just popped in my thoughts... (Free, right here on YT)

Hi Russell, if I may the white mtns are near showlow, apache peaks and superstition mtns are around roosevelt lake.

Hey mate. You forgot to go little further down... I just found out this lake and decided to stop by and we drove like .5 mile further down where the 2 flags are. Danger though

Stick your finger in the leak and save Phoenix! 🌊 Dam good video, sir.

those gates access the dam...

That's a federal U.S. Campground it is called Oak Flats it is by Magna mine. 😊

Those brick buildings at the dam look older than 1910.

I just wish lake Mead and Powell would fill up.

Hey Russ.. That leaky pipe at the dam, was the pipe from the mens room..

Need to get the Little Dutch Boy to plug that leak with his finger.

When in spring does the cactus bloom?

Good to see that dump truck go on the narrow road. Guess it would be okay for my 25 ft. Class C motorhome.

Yeah you going to Devil's Canyon now beautiful aint it. There's a history about that tunnel to I just found a video last week about that time when its history. History in Arizona Lots if you know what to do and you know who you know. Yup.😊

Hi Russ I guess you didn’t hear me hollaring to you I was telling you to blow your van horn in the tunnel. When me and my wife are traveling when we come to a tunnel I always blow our horn .have a good and safe day thanks

What is the whistling sound when you are driving? Just curious.

last time I was there, the new dam had not started to be built. Did they remove the old dam, of just flood it?

@davidgale4604

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The dam was not replaced. It reinforced with new concrete and raised 77 feet to increase capacity.

@rickdozier3609

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@@davidgale4604 great! never got the end of what happened