VIEW LARGER Wreckage of an ATV that plunged off a cliff in the Coconino National Forest, in the Blue Ridge area. Coconino County Sheriff via Facebook
FLAGSTAFF — Authorities in northern Arizona are trying to figure out how an ATV went off a cliff, killing all four men riding in it.
Coconino County Sheriff's officials recovered the bodies Monday of the victims of a weekend crash near Blue Ridge.
Sheriff's spokesman Jon Paxton says investigators are continuing to look into how the all-terrain vehicle veered off a forest road and plunged 400 feet.
Paxton says the four men were from metro Phoenix area and had been on a camping trip in the Payson area.
He says the county medical examiner had not yet made positive identifications.
The Saturday crash also sparked a 10-acre fire, which made it difficult for rescuers to get to the victims.
The road has since reopened.
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