![]() ![]() Before there was a Tortilla Flat, pioneers traversed the Yavapai Trail. In what is now the Tonto National Forest, the Tonto Basin is a large valley where the Tonto Creek and its tributaries flow into the Salt River and a collection of dams and associated reservoirs. That road, now called the Apache Trail winds its way through the Superstition mountains and its legends have many more twists and turns than the road itself. Indeed, there was no road until Pima and Apache workmen completed the road to the dam. Looking at government records, a small settlement established as a freight camp near a small creek in the valley became a stopping point for workers constructing the Roosevelt Dam in 1903. Historians, however, tell a different story. ![]() Tales of settlements go back to the prospectors and Native Americans of the 18th and 19th centuries. Nestled in a small valley at what my father would have called “a wide spot in the road,” Tortilla Flat has a history that is mostly of legend.
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