La Sal Pass

Don’t be fooled by the 2 rating. Whoever rated this trail a 2 has never been on it. A 2 rating is accurate for the east side to Medicine Lake, but once you go past the High Clearance 4 wheel drive sign it becomes much more than that. There is a large boulder sticking up about 2 ft in the middle of the trail on a serious shelf that the jeeps in front of me went around on the shelf side, I looked at their tracks and they were touching the drop off - if it gives it’s good night Irene. A full size truck won’t make it. I wound up building a ramp to get over the obstacle. There are few places to turn around if you meet opposite traffic.

Had planned to go up from 46 side and back. Pictures attached of LaSal Creek. It was starting to rain so we did not cross. Lots of rocks. Looked like an easy cross but didn’t want to take the chance of being on the wrong side of the creek with rain threatening. We did not see any other people. Beautiful stream to have lunch by.

Side going into Moab is much rougher, other (east) side is just a gravel road. All clear.

Strongly disagree with the 2/10 rating, this is much closer to a 4/5 in its current state. Several foot high rock in the middle of a very narrow section, large hidden rocks in water. In total our group lost a tire and had a severely dented skidplate. This trail was fun, but is FAR from a 2

Disagree with the 2 rating - there were quite a few obstacles I would rate higher. Although most of the trail would be a 2, there were a few areas where our longer wheel base (Jeep Gladiator) required careful line choices and rock stacking. Also quite a few steep, loose rock sections with large rocks that again required careful line choice. A handful of off camber sections. The largest obstacle was the large rock in the picture right in the center of the trail. Going on the “hill side” requires you to be very very close to the cliff edge, but the inside will put you pretty off camber. Could be rather intimidating for someone looking for an easy Level 2 rated trail.

If this is rated a 2 I'd had to see what a 10 is. Made it to around 8910' right around the switch backs. Got a little hairy so we turned around at the first possible chance.. Got flagged down my some motorcyclists that needed help and rescued one guy that had gone off the trail up above us.

Snow at the highest point of the pass. I traveled from the Rim trail side and had to navigate some snow piles. Follow existing tracks with momentum and you should be fine. The snow should be clear in a couple of weeks pending future weather

From the east (154 or RimRocker), clear path as you climb up over 9500 feet. Toward the summit, there are sections of deep, slushy snow, 3+ feet in some sections. It took 3 hours to a mile toward the summit. We made it to the summit then turned around as there were more snow drifts on the descent (west side of pass).

Snowed in. From the west you can make just past the loose rock section. As soon as it goes into the forest section it's blocked by snow.

Drove La Sal Pass as part of the Rim Rocker trail in a mostly stock 4Runner - it's very rough but should be doable in any high-clearance 4x4.

Definitely should be rated higher than a 2. we approached from the west side turned back after one of the washes was too deep for the 23 tundra TRD off-road with 33", but stock suspension. Sharp turns with deepwashes and large large boulders in the middle of the road. The parts we made it through were fine until that point as a level. A local who seem to have knowledge of the trail on a side-by-side said we would have more trouble further up. I think a lift and 35s we would have been fine or a shorter wheelbase vehicle.

Fun challenging trail up into the Sal mountains. Definitely some obstacles for 4x4 trucks. From the west side you end at a meadow on top and then easy road downhill through aspen forests. Gorgeous.

West side has some tight area where brush will hit the sides of a full size vehicle. No major obstacles. Traveled from the west pack creek trail side to the east to highway 46.