Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Torrey, Utah

This portion of the Great Western Trail stretches from the red rock-covered low lands around Loa up onto the Thousand Lake mountain plateau. The higher elevations are covered in Pine and Aspen trees. There is…
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Great Western Trail-Pine Lake to Torrey, Utah is a 77-mile point-to-point trail rated 4 of 10 located in South Central, Utah. The Great Western Trail is a continuous trail system spanning about 4,455 miles that…
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Deep Creek Lake Road traverse's the East side of the Thousand Lake Mountain range from the North end and wraps around the South end of the mountain. Depending on how wet of a year it…
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Elkhorn Road is well-maintained and offers access to Deep Creek Lake Road and Elkhorn Campground. The campground and surrounding area are great for tents, as well as travel trailers. The area offers great views of…
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This is a very non-technical road that connects from the Cathedral Valley trail up to Elkhorn Road by Fish Lake. What the road lacks in technical fun and challenges it more than makes up for…
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Turn off of Utah Highway 24 to start this trail. You will encounter some beautiful rock formations and vast panoramic views. PMT 1 is a well-maintained road of dirt and gravel. You may well see…
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This road connects Upper Cathedral Valley (campground) and Lower Cathedral Valley (Temple of the Sun and Moon). Stunning desert views all around. The dirt road is maintained, but there are river washes that could potentially…
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This road is partially maintained but not used often. On this road, we saw antelope running. This is another wide, high plains view road, with lots of grass, sage, and watering holes for wildlife and…
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Descending nearly 3000 feet from Hwy 72 at approximately 9200 feet down to the Lower Last Chance road on the San Rafael at 6400 feet. The road borders the north end of Capital Reef National…
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This is a wide, well-maintained dirt road. The road is marked as PMT22 on FSR 0021.This could be confusing because PMT 21 turns left off of PMT 22 further down the trail on FSR0021. In…
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When you turn onto this trail, it looks like you're driving on two tracks in the grass. This trail has some twists and turns, and plenty of plenty of open plains covered with sage and…
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From off of Highway 12, this nearly 2-mile out-and-back trail dead-ends at a beautiful little meadow view. It's not flat enough to camp at, unfortunately. As far as difficulty, there are a handful of small…
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The Geyser Peak trail extends for six miles along the eastern side of Geyser Peak. The south end the trail meets with the Elkhorn campground road. On the north end it meets up to Hwy…
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This is actually part of the Great Western Trail - a hiking route that spans North/South from Mexico to Canada. Hikers could be present on the trail, so please be respectful. The trail begins with…
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This is a very short offshoot trail from 35158. It's on the advanced side with a couple of steep hill climbs, a couple of which have some rocky sections to navigate. It abruptly dead ends…
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Gypsum Sinkhole is a short and scenic 2-mile out-and-back route that delivers big visual payoff with minimal effort. This mostly graded trail winds gently through open terrain before revealing towering red rock formations that frame…
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Fun mixed terrain route accessing Lower Browns Reservoir, Jorgensen Flat, Tantalus Flats, Laurel and Hardy Arch, and the Western back-door access point of Capitol Reef National Park. This route starts out as a graded gravel…
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Nice and easy dirt road that traverses the Northern section of Cathedral Valley National Park and cuts into BLM land. Stock vehicles and passenger cars were spotted. There are a few dry river washes that…
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Graded trail that travels to perhaps the best overlook of the South Desert in Capitol Reef National Park. The trail starts on BLM land but crosses over into Capitol Reef National Park about halfway through.…
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This is an amazing trail (not too technical) that connects from the south end of Capitol Reef NP to the Tantalus Flats trail and comes out by the Lower Bowns reservoir. Most of the trail…
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This trail is on TV Tower Road and starts out smooth until it starts climbing before the towers. Once on top, you can see for miles, overlooking the town of Loa. On the downhill road,…
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This trail offers easy terrain with mostly gravel and dirt roads and opens into wide, expansive areas with numerous small side routes to explore. It provides scenic views of the surrounding peaks, Fish Lake, and…
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This road can be accessed on the north end from I-70 via the exit to Highway 10 to Price or Blue Road exit. There are also two entrances coming from Capital Reef on the south…
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Leaving the pavement on Long Hollow Road. This section of the trail connects to the PMT 14 intersection of Shallow Hollow Road. Most of these roads are county-maintained. They are periodically graded during the rainy…
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This is another stunning maintained desert trail that connects you from the main road to Lower Cathedral Valley. It is well-maintained and scenic. All vehicle types can make it, even sedans. In one section, the…
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This is a quick way to get from the Hartnett Road to the southern section of the Cathedral Valley Road. There are a few small rock ledges to cross, and one wash crossing that had…
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Mytoge Road can be found along Fremont Road between Mill Meadow and Johnson's reservoirs. The road rises nearly 2400 feet from the junction to the overlook onto Fish Lake. Vegetation ranges from sage brush and…
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This nine-mile trail drops almost 2000 feet from 9500 feet down to 7649 feet. It cuts through pretty aspen forest which are stunning in the fall. It is very rocky with some roots as well…
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This trail is well-maintained and is full of rolling hills. There are several rock and tree areas that break up the landscape. Mostly rock and gravel roadway with an occasional patch of dirt that will…
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Roundup Cuddy Back-NFS30566 is a 4.6-mile point-to-point trail rated 2 of 10 located in Garfield County, Utah, within the Escalante Ranger District of the Dixie National Forest. Roundup Cuddy Back connects Hells Backbone (NFS30153) and…
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