know of any trails?

[Quentin18]

Hey,
does any one happen to know any trails in the St. George and surrounding areas?

[DevinSixtySeven]

St. George, UT?

[Quentin18]

ya that's what i meant.
haha sorry ya i mean St. George UT

[DevinSixtySeven]

Offhand no I don't. Ask around on TTORA, let 'em know you're in SW Utah...probably a bunch of stuff in AZ and NV near you.

What sort of trails? Easy, hard, sand, rocks, crawling or hauling?

If you're willing to drive a few hours and camp overnight, there's no end of stuff near you, but it's not necessarily named, dedicated 4WD trails.

There is another way...

Start here:
The National Geographic Online Store - Utah

Click on any map...like this one...
The National Geographic Online Store - 207 Grand Canyon National Park Trail Map

Click on the images under "more views". You'll get a window where you can zoom and pan thru a small window, over the complete map in hi-res. Granted it's better if you have a map store in town where you can browse...recreation/outdoor gear stores may have some for UT/AZ/NV.

What you're looking for is roads marked as side-by-side short black dashed lines. The longer dashed black lines are usually high-clearance 2WD roads, but they usually get you to the marked 4WD roads. Lesser roads are marked on those maps as spurs, just a little hatch mark on the main 4WD road is all you'll see on the map.

You'll need a compass and a good GPS unit, with the readout switched to UTM (ie map) coordinates, to find your way around.

Escalante, Kaiparowitz Plateau, Goblin Valley, Powell, all that stuff is within a couple hours of you. Pick something on the map you want to see, and go see it. You'll need to do some advance planning if you're going on a reservation.

I guarantee you will find everything you're looking for, and potentially a lot more, on those ragged-looking 4WD trails marked on the Trails Illustrated maps.

A lot of these areas are covered on the Expedition Portal. If you're just looking to do some quick afternoon wheeling, look online for topo maps of a few quads around St. George, and be prepared to find that some of the roads are in great condition for wheeling--ie largely unused, unmaintained, eroded, washed out, etc...but still legitimate routes.

Start with maps 702 and 214...tho outta curiosity I looked at 702 north of St. George and it's pretty sparse. IIWY I'd get driving away from civilization...the stuff closer to town is usually paved or trashed anyway, or gated, or bladed, or whatever.

-Sean

[rambrush]

I was thinking the Az strip area VERY remote and some trails across to the Virgin river and into Littelfield and Mesquite. But if you have enough fuel you can travel all the way across and pop up around Jacob lake.
Delamar mountains/Ghost town is in nevada but not so far away.

[DevinSixtySeven]

Escalante

Hole in the Rock

Goblin Valley

All "surrounding area" and not necessarily hardcore or anything, but worth the drive. HITR has some tougher sections. I haven't been to any of these yet.

[Quentin18]

Those all sound like good places, after i get my lift and new wheels and tires put on im gonna have to just drive around a lot of outdoor areas untill i find some fun places.

any one ever do anything out in moab?

[DevinSixtySeven]

Originally Posted by Quentin18

Those all sound like good places, after i get my lift and new wheels and tires put on im gonna have to just drive around a lot of outdoor areas untill i find some fun places.

any one ever do anything out in moab?

Yes .

OBTW go drive around some of those places without any mods at all. Major mods aren't necessary everywhere, and you'll get some great experience learning how to drive the truck.

What exactly are you looking to do? Type of trail, fast or slow? Rock crawling? Desert cruising? Backcountry water access? Hiking? Camping? Scenery? Impress a girl? Hang out with your buddies?

Normally I'd say look through my gallery but everything's down and I'd be sifting through 66MB of jpgs trying to find stuff.

[Quentin18]

well i used to drive my truck off road all the time untill my tires basically turned into racing slicks. and i was afraid that i would pop a tire, and that would suck, although i put my lift on yesterday night/finish this morning. and man do i like it. i drove on a dirt road with a mud puddle on it on my way home from work(in the dark) and my new tires and lift feel so much nicer than what i previously had on. but ya i should be going off roading with my friend(whom had a pretty mean jeep) tommorow after are classes(around 11:ish, dont have many classes on thursdays) and ill let u know how it was. ill try to take a few pictures

[DevinSixtySeven]

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[Quentin18]

I finally found a good book for some trails. Its called "UTAH trails, Southwest Region", it has 49 trails, with gps waypoints. colored maps ect.And a bunch of stuff about 4wd vehicles, tips on how to drive in certain terrain, vehicle recovery gear and tips, also a list of what gear you should bring with you on a trip. It was only 24.99; but with my 10% off membership discount to Barnes and Nobel it was like 23 bucks. So hopefully with this i'll be able to have all kinds of trails to ride on now.