First time to Moab, UT

Good luck! Remember a Honda Ridgeline did Moab lol.

 

Please poop way out of sight and pack out the TP. I hear that’s a problem these days .

 

Potash is a beautiful, easy drive with some opportunity to see interesting wild life (desert bighorn sheep), access onto the White Rim road (turn left) or go up Schaefer trail (turn right) into Diamond in the Sky/Canyonlands NP. Don’t miss Deadhorse State Park...no off-roading but easy hikes where you can look down on what you traversed by coming in through Potash.

 

Hook me up with beta. I'm probably gonna head back down to AZ through Utah. Pikes peak is shut down at the very top. You can get 13m up though.

 

I've been going to Moab on a semi-annual basis since '08 You'll have a blast!! Here are some trails I'd recommend:

Gemini Bridges then a trip to Mineral Bottom, which will require driving several miles on a boring, flat uninspiring dirt road, however the last mile gets real steep, narrow and has a few Switchbacks. Just watch-out for vans picking people up or dropping them off at the landing at the bottom.

Dead Horse point is hands-down one of my favorite places to go to in Moab; it's a must-do for me every time I go!

The back way into Arches is good and will help avoid some of the crowds which like to mob the place. I wouldn't do Chicken Corners in a stock truck; 90% of it is just rough dirt road, but there is one section which requires traversing an off-camber, sandy hill.

Shaffer Trail is awesome, though I prefer to go up it then to go down it, be sure to check-out 'Thelma & Louise Point' (it's where they filmed the final scene of the movie) it's off Potash Rd. as well.

If you have some extra time Court House Butte is worth seeing, however when I was there last October it was quite whooped-out and there are now a lot of restrictions on where you can travel. Real easy to get turned-around back there too.

 

I've done probably half the trails in the Moab Area driving this:


Pic was taken off Potash Rd.

 

I gave up on that place between the side x side crowd overunning the place like fire ants & the mountian bikers running thier handle bars down the side of your vehicle attempting to pass while your waiting your turn to climb an obstacle (they have the right of way just ask one) the $10 bags of ice, long lines EVERYWHERE $300 or night rooms (if you can find one) the entire town running out of fresh produce stupid liquor laws cops, BLM, forest service, highway patrol, sheriffs, EVERYWHERE & alot of them. Busting you for stupid shit like mudflaps, window tint, lift kits, front plates, tires sticking out 1/2" of your fenderwells, you name it in the pursuit of the almighty dollar

You can keep the shithole............

 

You may as well head to the Rocky Mountain National park and go up over Trail Ridge rd, USA's highest continuous paved rd. Enjoy, sounds like fun!

EDIT: LOL, I live in Hawaii and forgot it's winter (kinda) time for y'all. Trail Ridge is closed!

 

You're not wrong; I've seen a lot of changes for the worse since my first trip there in May of '08. At this point it's an every-other year trip for my friends and I. I have found that going mid-week in May or October isn't as bad as the weekends (or Holiday weekends) are. If someone has never been it's worth going to but there are many other 'un-spoiled' places in Utah which are worth seeing as well.

 

Yes thier are many places to go but I'm shure as hell not going to mention them on here

 

I'll be there May 1-8! Post pics!!

 

One more night of work and gonna pack the truck wait for wife to get home midnight Thursday from work leave Friday 3am

 

We go every year. Have a great time and good luck, be safe. Check this out. Kanes Creek, being flexy!

 

man I want so badly to help you out and give you some recommendations, unfortunately I didn't have time to stop in Moab on the way to CO during my recent trip because my GF and I wanted to do too much stuff in Zion lol.

watching this thread for the inevitably awesome pics and vids to come out of your trip

 

Yeah, there are a lot of places in Utah you can go without putting up with that shit. I'm glad the word hasn't got out on them...it would be raptor lights and broken predator steps as far as the eye could see.

 

Officially on vacation starting countdown for departure time tomorrow at 3am packing truck now

 

853 miles later made it to wendover, utah

 

Holy crap there was alot of head winds had to fill up three times to get this far have almost a full tank headed to salt flats Tomorrow morning and then making our journey to moab .

 

Hey, Moab is great, but there's SO much to see in Utah! Feel free to do some exploring beyond the "usual"...you will not be disappointed!