{"id":593091,"date":"2026-04-19T05:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593091\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:34:08","slug":"search-underway-for-man-who-didnt-return-from-camping-trip-near-prescott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593091\/","title":{"rendered":"Search underway for man who didn\u2019t return from camping trip near Prescott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">CORDES LAKES, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 Search and rescue teams are looking for a Verde Valley man who went camping by himself and never came home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Yavapai County Sheriff\u2019s Office says Mark Eric Young left Thursday for a solo camping trip <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/At6vKbfry8LSfqvKA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/At6vKbfry8LSfqvKA\">along Bloody Basin Road off Interstate 17<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Young is described as a white man who is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 165 lbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He reportedly took Forest Roads 269, 16, and 16A in a rented Kia SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Young was supposed to meet a family friend for dinner Friday night in Verde Valley, but he never showed up. His family reported him missing Friday evening, and search crews headed out around 9 p.m. that night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Saturday, law enforcement found Young\u2019s vehicle on Forest Road 16 in Yavapai County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you\u2019ve seen Young or know anything about where he might be, you\u2019re encouraged to contact YCSO at 928-771-3266.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Multiple agencies are helping with the search, including the Yavapai County Jeep Posse, Back Country units, an Arizona Department of Public Safety Ranger, and Maricopa County FOX 1 helicopters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORDES LAKES, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 Search and rescue teams are looking for a Verde Valley man who went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[258684,4958,258683,4,450,451,258680,258685,3,19156,452,453,258682,258681],"class_list":["post-593091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-arizona-missing-person","tag-azfamily","tag-bloody-basin-road-camping","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-mark-eric-young-missing","tag-missing-mark-eric-young","tag-news","tag-phoenix-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-verde-valley-missing-camper","tag-yavapai-county-search-and-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}