Every October the community holds their annual Pumpkin Festival with a hearty pumpkin pancake breakfast. The most exciting event is the Great Pumpkin Bed Race. This stretch will give you miles and miles of peaceful fields, and little traffic. The one trooper we saw waved us on with a tired hand. Country roads dart off to either side, straight as an arrow.
Hawks are plentiful.
We even saw two scissor-tail flycatchers just outside of Lone Wolf. Spring butterflies were so thick they sometimes looked like flowers floating up off the earth. State hiway 44 and then 44-A led us into the Quartz Mountain State Park. Ms. Hobaskan was the first person we met there. She is one of the only two naturalists employed by the state west of I-35.