Beautiful country. Jerome is a small community built into the side of a mountain. We stopped here for lunch at a very nice little cafe. The cafe owner caught us looking at the menu and said we were welcome on the patio with the dog! Yeah. The patio was located across the street. We enjoyed watching the waiter dodge the tourist traffic to bring us our meal.
Driving south out of Jerome you climb further out of the valley and pass some amazing rock formations before entering a forest and then you break out on the other side looking into a valley and out to Prescott.
Looking past Jerome into the valley
Definitely a drive that is a must do when you visit the Mesa/Phoenix area. It took us 3 years to get to it!