Tropic Reservoir Road

Total Miles
30.1

Technical Rating

Easy

Best Time

Summer

Trail Type

Full-Width Road

Accessible By

Trail Overview

This is a scenic route with some washouts, water bars and ruts on the lower end of the trail. It is a main artery road to multiple ATV, UTV, dirt bike and 4x4 trails with plentiful camping in high altitude Utah meadows of the Dixie National Forest. All along the trail, hoodoos can be seen eroding out of pink cliffs. The road is seasonally closed for maintenance snow pack. This road gets busy in summer with OHV recreation. This area is incredibly dusty in summer from constant use and soft road base.

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Difficulty

It is a main road used to access other areas of the Dixie National Forest. It is well maintained.

Technical Rating

Status Reports

Very dusty, full of campers, not many people driving around.

Very muddy, wet and slippery going uphill from Deer Springs Ranch. Gate just above Pipeline Canyon was open. Deep ruts 12”+ and difficult to maintain traction on the steeper grades. Had to turn around before summiting Crawford Pass. Give it a few more weeks to dry out and this stretch will be more doable.

About a quarter mile there is a close trail sign on top of the first cattle guard.