Caverly Road to Devil's Den Road

Total Miles
3.9

Technical Rating

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall

Trail Type

Full-Width Road

Accessible By

Trail Overview

This route travels across two portions of two Class 6 roads that travel around Caverly Mountain, then between Devil's Den Mountain and Mount Molly. The route is stock four-wheel drive friendly and can be run in either direction. This route starts on Caverly Road and heads West for approximately 1 mile. This portion of the route is fairly easy until the left turn onto Devi's Den Road. At this point, you ascend up a steep hill covered with loose rocks. Four-wheel drive is necessary to climb this hill, and 4-low is optimal. After reaching the top of this initial hill, the rest of the trail is comprised of gentle hills and a trail that winds through old-growth New Hampshire forest. This route ends at the southern exit point off of Devil's Den Road at Chesley Road. There is cell service on most of this route (Verizon).

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Difficulty

Most of the trail is a very easy dirt road with some scattered sections of hills and loose rocks, some larger-sized boulders.

History

The "Devil's Den" itself refers to a cave or geological formation, and the road leading to it is named accordingly. The history includes indigenous use, potential smuggling activity, and local lore surrounding the name.

Technical Rating

Status Reports

The gate is open, please respect the neighbors. This is a fun route to take with an immediate short uphill section. It gets easy after that until you take a left turn and begin the climb up Devils Den. The climb is more fun than challenging but 4 low was the right choice for me as the wet leaves that cover the rocky trail made it a bit slippery. The rest of the ride out was easy. A lot of the trails are also used by a snowmobile club and are well taken care of and marked.

What a fun little Class VI road to bring any 4x4. Very suitable for stock vehicles. Slow and steady wins the race on this trail as it is well maintained but still a bit bumpy. At the very peak is the trail head for Devils Den Cave, which I didn’t know existed until seeing the sign for it. Worth getting out to check out the view and the cave itself. There are some fun and steep ascends, low gear will be helpful. Enjoy!

Very dusty but ran from kings highway to rhines road and up to devils den; very manageable if you avoid a few tall pumpkin smasher rocks

Mostly just a bumpy dirt road. There was one fun, steep, rocky section that would be tough without 4wd low. Overall fun