BMW CCA

BMW Car Club of America, Sonora Chapter, Tucson AZ

Calendar of Events

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***NEXT CLUB EVENTS***

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Our next club event September 11th, is an evening with the telescopes and observatory on Mt. Lemmon’s tip-top, but there are things to do on the mountain before the evening hours. Before I tell you more, there is one important item. This event is open only to pre-registered members and guests. Unlike our other events, we cannot allow last-minute show-ups to be included. There is a definite limit to how many visitors may participate due to limited space.  You must contact Julia Olsen-Peterson at (520)241-6205 to register.

The Iron Door Restaurant is a good spot for lunch, but it usually has a lunch wait-time Saturdays. The food is really good and the wait-staff is friendly. I really recommend the chili and corn-bread! That’s worth the trip up the mountain in itself! The pie-lady business in Summerhaven is gone, the owner died last year or the year before, and the building is no longer there, so don’t go to Summerhaven for that, but there is a Pizza Place, and it’s further down the road from the Summerhaven Community Center, you just have to look for it. I can’t recommend it, since I haven’t eaten there, but that might be worth a try.

 

If you get up the mountain early enough, you can buy a lift-ticket and take the ski-lift to the top of the slopes and look over both sides to the valleys below. It’s a little, relatively easy, hike down the Aspen Ridge Trail, but that is through some well-shaded scenery, and it only takes about 45 minutes to an hour to get back to the parking lot.

 

There’s no $5 user-fee required for parking in any of the following:

  • Summerhaven merchant’s lots

  • the ski-lift parking lot

  • Iron-Door Restaurant parking lot.

The $5 user-fee is going to be necessary if you are parking in any area that is public domain, such as the picnic areas, the back-roads or the parking lots near the trail-heads. Please be sure to check if you are in doubt. The passes for National Parks and Monuments will allow you to park in those areas if you display the pass in your windshield. The park service personnel regularly patrol and write tickets for cars without a pass.

So, there you have it, some things to do on the mountain before we meet. Remember you have to pre-register for this event.

Thanks to newsletter editor Quentin Peterson for this well-written update!

Our newsletter in September will detail the Pacific-Zone Las Vegas driving weekend (page 8), Tucson’s Classic Car Show, and Cops & Rodders Car Show (all in October), as well as the November Madera Park picnic..

 

 

*** There are also future and out-of-town events posted on the Google Calendar, above.***

 

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