Waterfall

Total Miles
1.6

Elevation

1,751.54 ft

Duration

3 Hours

Technical Rating

8

Difficult

Best Time

Spring, Fall, Summer

Trail Overview

This is a 1.5-mile long rock crawling trail full of advanced obstacles. They often have split lines, with easier versus harder lines to choose from, and sometimes have a bypass, but most of the obstacles require extreme caution, driver experience, proper recovery gear, and it's helpful to have vehicle modifications. There's a lot of steep slick rock slopes where the trail goes straight up the rock face near vertically for 10+ feet, like waterfalls. It goes down several small slick rock drop-offs, and up several more ramped slickrock slopes that aren't as hard, and up blunt 2-foot ledges. Some of the shelves you can approach straight on, but some of them are more uneven, with big boulders, cracks, and off-camber slopes. There is a huge waterfall obstacle that is a straight vertical rock wall, with multiple layers of ledges to get to the top of the mesa. Most of the extreme obstacles happen right away from the west entrance to the trail, including The Big Climb, Waterfall Hard Side, and The Crack. On The Crack, you have to straddle a huge crevice by keeping your wheel on the high points to avoid sliding into the crack. It coincides with the Upper Rim Trail near the north end for a moment before ending on Glade Road West.

Photos of Waterfall

Waterfall
Waterfall

Difficulty

This trail is rated an 8 by the BLM, and it has several other optional extreme obstacles that could make it a 10. It has 6+ foot tall obstacles, tight rock pinches, off-camber rock ledges, and near vertical rock walls that you must go up. Per the BLM, you'll experience 25-degree grades and 30-degree sidehills. A minimum of 37"+ tires and front and rear lockers are necessary. Winches, skid plates, body protection, and trail recovery gear are essential. Body damage is possible and vehicle modifications are helpful. ATVs are not recommended.

Technical Rating

8

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