Harris Spring Road

Total Miles
9.4

Technical Rating

Moderate

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall

Trail Type

Full-Width Road

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Trail Overview

This trail starts in a gravel wash but quickly climbs in elevation. Once you do, you are presented with scenic panoramic views of Lovell Canyon and Kyle Canyon. The trail is rough and rocky, but presents no challenging obstacles for most vehicles. However, as a driver, you will need to be comfortable navigating a narrow shelf road with very few places to turn around. When you reach the summit, you can hike on foot to the Griffith Peak summit. Along the way, you will see the devastation left behind by the Carpenter One fire in July of 2013 that burned over 28,000 acres of this area. Winter snowstorms may prevent travel due to snow.

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Difficulty

The trail is bumpy from the rough and rocky surface, but there are no challenging obstacles.

Technical Rating

Status Reports

Pretty easy trail with a lot of nice views of the surrounding desert and Mount Charleston. Gravel most of the way with some larger rocks in the road in some places that you need to slow down for. If you keep your eyes peeled you may find water.

Good trail I’ll give a 3 but since there was a incoming snow storm 4 just because the you can slip an on a one way trail you get nervous about sliding off the mountain

Normal harris springs trail for the first 3/4 of the trail. Nice and easy trail riding. On the drive up saw snow on the hill sides and continued until It got too sketchy. Made it 3/4 of the way and started hitting some snow. Not fresh by any means. The snow was extremely hard and icy. Was determined to make it to the top but ran into bigger snow drifts that were rock hard and decided to turn back. Biggest fear was getting stuck or running into icy slippery snow and sliding off the trail down the cliff.

easy path of travel, starts with some elevation climb, camping sites, and vast views of the mountains. Many scorched trees with some patches of full trees. turning into the trail is a gate signifying if it's open or closed. it does get a little rocky going up to Griffith peak with some pretty decent cliff falls on the driver side. Some areas are not big enough for two vehicles to pass side by side. Taking in the beautiful views, winding up the mountains. Getting all the way up to the peak, proved to be very windy. The peak is small, we had 3 vehicles up there, turning around was a little tricky.

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