Trail Overview

This track starts at the Base Camp Sawtooth Canyon Camp Grounds located 15 miles south of Barstow California. You run the gas line road East to Pipkin Cindercone Road to the Volcano. There are lots of mines out in this area of the Ord Mountains and Rodman Mountains. This is also close to Johnson Valley and Stoddard Valley OHV. There are at least 4 lava lakes to visit and 2 dry lake beds in the area.

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Difficulty

On this route, there are a few sections and optional spurs that require 4x4. There are some steep hills on spur trails but there is a bypass to go around it if you choose. Most all the mine road access is sharp rocky trails.

Technical Rating

Jason Chung

May 09, 2025

Open

Mats Lund

Mar 08, 2025

Open

Trail was nice, good terrain, less sandy than surrounding trails, easy-ish for T7 until a couple miles in a fairly steep long loose sand and rocks hill had me stuck 3/4 way up. Riding by myself so cut losses and headed back down. Wouldn’t recommend for anything 2 wheel larger than dirt bike.