Paw Hole Road - NM1079

Total Miles
5.3

Technical Rating

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Fall

Trail Type

Full-Width Road

Accessible By

Trail Overview

Sand road accessing Paw Hole TH, Sunset Butte, and other areas of Coyote Buttes South (hiking permit required). This road climbs up into Vermillion Cliffs National Monument from House Rock Road. This road sees little maintained and is primarily sand. The BLM office that manages the VCNM has installed signage requesting that users understand the difference between 2WD, AWD, and 4WD.

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Difficulty

fun sand road

Technical Rating

Status Reports

Great trail but some heavy sand. Keep in mind this is listed on the BLM sign as one way - meaning West to East. Likely due to the depth of the sand and going downhill versus uphill.

We ran the trail from east to west. There is a posted sign at paw hole suggesting that this trail is one way west bound. Sandy, but nothing unmanageable.

We ran this trail east to west coming from White Pockets towing a trailer. The sand is deep as reported. We spent most of the time in 2nd gear occasionally dropping to 1st to keep momentum up. Along the trail are numerous rock patches that require you to slow to a crawl to navigate.