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Jungo Road, Nevada

Relatively soon, I will be headed to Black Rock City out in Nevada to attend the 2013 Burning Man, Cargo Cult. During Burning Man, Black Rock City becomes Nevada’s third-largest city for the week that the event is held. To get there most take State Route 447, but I take a shortcut to get there. Which just so happens to be off-road. If you’re driving from the east to get to Burning Man, I highly recommend taking Jungo Road (State Route 49). I was able to shave 4 hours of my driving time, with the way I drove getting there. Continue Reading

Superlift ORV Park

In the 1970s, off-road enthusiast around Hot Spring Arkansas began exploring the logging roads in the area, forming an impressive network of trails. Then in 1999, the landowners closed the off-road trails down so that they could put the land up for sale. A couple of years later, a group of businessmen bought the land to create the off-road destination Superlift ORV Park. The trail grades begin with completely stock vehicles with four-wheel drive, all the way up to trails that require 36+ inch tires, front and rear lockers, and the expectation of body damage. Superlift ORV Park has hill Continue Reading

Canyons Off Road Park

North of Fredericksburg, in Texas hill country, is Canyons Off-Road Park. The concept of this park began with two rock crawling enthusiast when they realized that their favorite local places to off-road at were being closed down. They decided to open up their own park and the rest is history. This park is only open during the hours Friday at 3 P.M. till Sunday at 3 P.M. Canyons ORV park is geared toward 4×4 rigs and ridiculous climbs, but has things to do for mildly modified vehicles too. Have a look at youtube for bunch of videos of the park Continue Reading

New York Fields of Dreams

Located 30 miles north of Syracuse, New York is the mild off-road trails of New York Fields of Dreams. New York Fields Of Dreams 4×4 park has limited the tire size to 35 inches and doesn’t allow trucks or full-size SUV’s. While a turn of to some wheels, I think it’s nice that this New York Off-Road Park provides a place for the inexperienced to go and drive trails that they really shouldn’t have to worry about. The land is on 100 acres, 85 of which is heavily wooded, with mud holes, hill climbs, water crossings, and side hills. They Continue Reading

Gulches Off-Road Vehicle Park

South west of the town, “Laurens” is South Carolina’s best off-road vehicle park, Gulches ORV Park. Gulches ORV Park is on 80 acres of land and has over 40 trails rated from easy all the way to skull and cross bones. What’s neat about the trail system at Gulches ORV Park is that the trails are designed so that groups don’t have to split up despite a group having vehicles that wildly more equipped than others. They do this by having easy trails link up with all the hard trails. Keep an eye on the events because Gulches ORV Park Continue Reading

Naches Pass

Naches Pass was originally a Native American foot trail connecting the various Salish people on the west side (Nisqually & Puyallup) to the Yakima people on the east side of the Cascade Range. In later years, Naches Pass was worked on to be used as a wagon trail short cut from the Oregon Trail. The trail never found practical use because the steep terrain is nearly impractical for wagons and it would require over 60 crossings of the Naches River before reaching the pass from the east. One of the earliest written accounts of the Naches Pass is from Theodore Continue Reading

Rocks and Valleys Off-Road Park

In the town Harrison, Michigan is Rocks and Valleys Off-Road Park where it gets a bit more wild than the usual off-road park. The difficulty of the trails range from beginner to expert, even the people afraid of scratching the paint will have a place to play in the 200 acres. Rocks and Valleys Off-Road Park has rock gardens, tires gardens, hills to climb, and of course plenty of mud holes. The cost is $25 for each driver per day and an additional $5 for the passengers. What are you waiting for? Head on out! Rocks and Valleys Off-Road Park Continue Reading

Drummond Island Trails

In the upper peninsula of Michigan, east of Mackinac Island is the off-road paradise, Drummond Island. What makes this Drummond Island unique is at you can’t just drive to it, you have to board a ferry head to the island. The off-road trails varies from mud bog trails in a boreal forests, to rock crawling on glacial rock deposits, and stone ridges over look Lake Huron. If run out of trails head over to the ORV Park, Turtle Ridge for more fun and excitement off-road. No matter what you drive Drummond Island’s off-road trails are great for stock vehicles, heavy Continue Reading

Holy Cross City 4X4 Trail

Holy Cross Trail meanders through rock gardens, streams, and mud on the side of the 14,000+ foot mountain, “Mountain of the Holy Cross.” The signs along Holy Cross Trail warn when the trail is about to get more difficult and what’s it going to cost to get towed out of there, can be used as an indicator of just how great Holy Cross Trail is. At the top is an old ghost town with leftover mining equipment and some empty cabins dating all the way back to the 1800s. At the entrance is a sign of what your vehicle needs Continue Reading

Appleton Area Recreational OHV Park

Up in Swift County Minnesota, the Department of Natural Resources has set aside land with 10 miles of ORV trails specifically for off-road vehicles. The Appleton Area Recreational OHV Park is situated on 330 acres of mostly old rail road line with sand dunes, hill climbs, and rock crawls. However the park is split in two sections, one side is ATV’s and dirt bikes only with the other portion for full-size vehicles. An interesting obstacle at the Appleton 4×4 park that I haven’t seen else where, is “stair steps.” A stair step is a long obstacle on a hill with Continue Reading

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