Gold Bug Mine Trail

Total Miles
5.5

Technical Rating

4

Moderate

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Trail Type

High-Clearance 4x4 Trail

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Gold Bug Mine Trail
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Trail Overview

This 5.7 point-to-point trail traverses through the Artillery Mountains and passes the Gold Bug Mine. The northern half of the trail is easy to travel. When the trail leaves the wash and heads up the Artillery Mountains the trail becomes more difficult with narrow cliff-side sections and off-camber travel. While passing through the mountains there are many narrow sections where you will get some good Arizona pin-stripping.

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Gold Bug Mine Trail
Gold Bug Mine Trail

Difficulty

This trail has long steep, rocky ascent/descent with off-camber sections. Narrow washes, and pin-stripping will occur.

Technical Rating

4

Status Reports

Sam Garrison
Jul 28, 2024
2011 Ford F-Series
Open
forgot to take photos but made it about half way through the trail and the climb up the mountain was more of a 6rating. I'm comfortable taking my wife's truck on most trails rated up to a five but this was a little much due to heavy crawling and erosion would've have ran in in my other vehicle but it was rated a 4 so I figured it wouldn't be a big deal. unfortunately we ended up turning around due to the difficuly, in correct vehicle, and being a solo rig in this adventure.

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