Three Huge grass fields in the East Valley

I have been constantly searching for a large park or field suitable to kiteboard in. Thusfar I have not found one that I could fully recommend for one reason or another until I came across the the basin 116. I created a location marker on the local kite sports site because I feel like others might benefit from a good kite spot and this place truly rocks for such a crowded city.

I hope to see some fellow east valley kiters out at some point. I know you are out there. It is on Elliot just east of Ellsworth in Mesa.

Videos forthcoming. Just waiting for a little more wind.

Thanks Budday! Here's a link to your post. Click for a forecast.

If you post video on YouTube include the tag "Basin 116", and the LocalKiteSpots.com YouTube crawler will pick it up.

Basin 116 Map

Next good wind day let's break this place in.

Yea It looks great. Now will someone turn off the oven

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Originally posted by SlasherQuan Yea It looks great. Now will someone turn off the oven

I thought the only settings that oven had were "roasted flesh", "burned-to-a-crisp", and "i'm-not-going-out-there"...

They also have sauteed in your own sweat

Wow, good spot! Do you mind if I add it to the forthcoming "kite spots" section of my site?

Traveler
www.DesertWindKiteboarding.com

Sounds like a good idea to me. I'd love to see more kiters there.

Has this site seen much regular activity? Would like to get back into buggying but all my equipment is back home in England...

I checked this place out at the weekend (without kite, unfortunately). It was a little toasty, and completely deserted. The basin isn't too deep, and even a few feet from the edge I was feeling good smooth SE wind. The sprinklers seemed to be restricted to the middle of the field, but hey, it's just going to be refreshing in AZ

Pic not attached since it's too big. I'll upload somewhere else. I'll post when I plan to fly here, but probably won't be before next year - I'll be bringing equipment from back home after Christmas.

Stuart

Picture here

Dat's nice. In my neck of the woods, some yahoo would be looking to turn that into a soccer field or driving range... even though we have too many of both.

The UK and Canada seem to do a better job of keeping open lands undesignated/multi-use.

ATB,
Sam