Mystery surrounds the Topock Mystic Maze, partially destroyed by roads, trains and gas pipelines.
TOPOCK, Ariz. — Just off Interstate 40 near the California/Arizona border is a mysterious Earth figure with a baffling origin story, and it gets more mysterious when you look at it from the sky. The figure is known as the Topock Mystic Maze.
No one truly knows how the rows and rows of rock piles ended up at the edge of the Colorado River and Havasu Wilderness. One theory claims the Topock Mystic Maze was a part of gravel collection for early railroad construction, but if you ask Simon Garcia with the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, they will tell you the maze was used by indigenous people long before railroads were even invented.
“We believe, when we are cremated, we go through that area in Havasu Landing and the Needles Peaks,” said Garcia.
Garcia is one of the chosen cremators for the …
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