Trail Overview

Incredible vistas and solitude are the rewards for choosing Microwave Road. It is passenger car friendly and rated an Easy1. Microwave Road is a wide well-maintained gravel road that allows two cars to pass. Located at the end of Microwave Road is a microwave communication station and tower. Microwave Road travels through a landscape of Sage, Pinyon, and Juniper trees and is located in the Toiyabe National Forest.

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Difficulty

Microwave Road is a wide well-maintained gravel road that is wide enough to allow two cars to pass each other.

History

The trail/road leads to the area's Microwave communications tower. Pine Grove Hills has abundant groves of Pinyon trees. Pine nuts were a staple food for the local tribes that lived in this area. In 1866, Gold and Silver were discovered, and the area became a successful mining region.

Technical Rating

Nick Goldman

May 24, 2025

2024 Ford Ranger

Open

Rough/DeterioratedWashboard

1/10 is very inaccurate which was the rating at the time of this report. Trail is barely a single vehicle wide and is extremely rutted and washed out. Only a few large obstacles so clearance wasn’t a problem until about halfway through where proceeding solo without a spotter wasn’t wise. Trail is also blocked or unclear and multiple times had to backtrack to an adjacent trail to continue. Most likely no problem for smaller SxS and Dirt Bikes but got pretty tight in my Ranger.