9062

Total Miles
4.1

Elevation

812.05 ft

Duration

0.5 Hours

Technical Rating

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Fall, Winter

Trail Overview

This 4-mile-long section of road is an easy trail ride through the Vulture Mountains perfect for high-clearance vehicles, without many obstacles or notable difficulties. It's mostly an easy and wide dirt road of hard-packed dirt with gravel and small loose rocks. The north end starts at Cemetery Wash as a turn-off from North Vulture Peak Road. It's a slight downhill all the way south, going through a forest of saguaro cactus with wide-open views, and ends near a beautiful cholla cactus field. It passes through several unmarked intersections but is mostly easy to follow. The road includes sections of uneven ground, ruts, slight grades up small hills, a slightly loose surface, a bit of embedded rock in the surface at times, and washouts to look out for. The road is nice and wide the whole way, making it a 2 difficulty.

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Difficulty

This is an easy high-clearance road with difficulties such as ruts, uneven ground, embedded surface rock, washouts, slight grades, and a bit of a loose surface, but is overall easy.

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Access Description

The Vulture Mountains Recreation Area is accessed off of South Vulture Mine Road south of Wickenburg, Arizona. This is an extensive area of OHV trails on BLM and State Trust Land with mostly easy and intermediate trails for full-width vehicles, UTVs, ATVs, and dirt bikes, with tons to see, including Vulture Peak, mines, and natural rock formations. There is a staging area and extensive dispersed camping on North Vulture Peak Road. The Recreational Land Use Permit is required for Arizona State Trust Land for camping and recreation in this area, which you can get online at https://land.az.gov/applications-permits. It's a pretty popular area in the spring and fall for UTVers.