Trail Overview

Fun mixed terrain route accessing Lower Browns Reservoir, Jorgensen Flat, Tantalus Flats, Laurel and Hardy Arch, and the Western back-door access point of Capitol Reef National Park. This route starts out as a graded gravel Forest Service road that begins to denigrate into a bumpy dirt two-track as it passes through Tantalus Flats. Once crossing into the national park and onto South Draw Road, the road turns much more rugged, and a high clearance vehicle is needed. Much of that portion of the route either crosses or runs in a dry creekbed. Do not go further than the Pleasant Creek crossing ahead of Tantalus Flats during wet weather.

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Difficulty

Easy dirt road

Technical Rating

Korey

Dec 25, 2025

Open

Coming from South Draw Road from Capitol Reef NP, the road was generally easy going but wet and very soft, a handful of technical bits but very easy overall on those to navigate without a spotter. There was a section of track however that was sketchy, a simple water crossing with a 12" drop into it (check depth and creek bottom with large pole or stick prior to attempting this) and a few innocent, shallow pools of water shortly after I expected to have a similar surface tension - they didn't. 4L, Rear Locked, and 2nd gear pinned to not get buried in those three shallow puddles. Outside of that, it's mostly a scenic track with a lot of soft areas after the rain that are way softer than they appear they should ever be. Another track that would be very easy in the dry, but is several stages higher in difficulty when it's wet.

Brian H

Oct 30, 2025

Open

Took pleasant creek to tantalus flats. Once I got to tantalus, it was fairly easy going. South Draw/Pleasant Creek connector was very difficult with the recent wash outs- but confirmed, it is open as long as there isn’t substantial snow.

AJ Brown

May 24, 2025

Open

Tyler henry

Oct 10, 2023

Open

Greg Hill

Jun 11, 2023

Open

Jesse Riley

Mar 02, 2023

Open