Post #379960 by bb moondog on Tue, May 13, 2008 7:20 AM

I live in Gilbert AZ and have lurked around the Buckhorn a few times--it WAs a spot where people would dump their garbage (NICE) so there used to be a LOT of palm sections there cut into CONVENIENT sizes for tiki carving...those have sort of depleted in the 5 or so years since I got a bunch of them...it is a SAD spot. When you poke around there checking stuff out, some hillbilly type guy & his son come BLAZING into the parking lot in a pick-up from one of the cabins out back and drill you as to what you are doing there..my guess is the cost to make that place actually WORK again would be astronomical. The bath houses look super decrepit and can't possibly be ANYTHING but a health hazard anymore...maybe if a Bill Gates wanted to piss a bunch of coin away on a pseudo frontier road hotel that would never make back even CLOSE to what it would cost to max this place out, that would be the only hope. There is a pretty creepy vibe out there...the area around it is run down ..lets just say it is a STRETCH to assume ANYTHING but a Wal-Mart would even be welcomed there..its pretty trailer out there. Best case scenario is the road stop & museum stuff gets there own building somewhere to preserve that but the whole area is a bit ripe for dozing and strip malling..mostly due to the whole redneck vibe in that part of the city.