Finding a gnarly off-road trail can be difficult, primarily because these trails are rarely marked and access usually means mapping a course into small, out-of-the-way towns that hardly anyone has heard of, let alone could direct others how to get there. Additionally, off-road trails often change their course due to natural elements such as wash-outs and landslides. Still, the rock crawlers must have their challenges and the rugged life enthusiasts their day in the sun, so there are a few trails that remain heralded as champions for being the most difficult pathways into wild country that you could take.
None of these trails can truly be rated as being any harder to take on than another. Again, this is due to the courtesies of nature. A trail that has been dry for a very long time might be easy enough for any skilled Jeep lover to navigate with stock equipment. However, a few days of rain could turn a mildly rugged trail into a winch job every few hundred yards and an axle buster in the first half-mile. All those mean trails seem to point in one general direction–northwest–where the Rockies bite into the sky, canyons burrow deep into the earth and where primitive conditions result in a land in constant upheaval.
Table of Contents
- Moab on the Go
- The Granddaddy of Trails
- Fordyce Creek Trail
- From Easy to Challenging
- Wood Pecker Mine