Oct. 14-15 Afton Canyon and Calico trip

Just north of Yermo on the 15 fwy is Afton Canyon Camp grounds. You can gps in, no issues, 1-2 bars service, first come first serve spots, $6 a night (good ol' boy sytem) And toilets- bring your own TP.

4wd makes life easier, but a 2wd with high clearance will do fine!

A couple of us went out early on Saturday to set up camp at Afton Canyon Campground at 3pmand camped and had a blast with the neighboors and a short dark canyon hike. It got down to 35-4o degrees but not too bad. There is a rail line just to the south of the grounds and it felt like 2 earthquakes rolled through in th middle of the night but it was pretty pleasant!

First light around 6am then the rest of the guys came in early the next morning. We headed up the canyon across a 3-4' deep 50 yards longe water crossings (check out @USERNAME411 on instagram for drone footage). Set out to see the sight along the UP rail line. We found spooky canyon, and the derailed coal cars from 4 weeks back. We drove around the wash to explore cool spots. We set up a shooting range by the old mining town near the end of the trail and had lunch.

On our way home around 5pm we headed into Calico the back way on Tin Can Hwy from the Express gas on Mineola Rd and explored the trails and canyons. We got in at sunset and then navigated down Phillips Rd carefully in the dark. My tacoma has sufficient light but one of our trucks had no lights from damaged from the water crossing earlier in the day. @Vizion @JohnBtheZombie and @Caligun1 @Frivolous4x4 and my buddy Leo

Good place to go and enjoy some close distance camping and trail riding. And Calico if you needed some thrills....

 

Was definately a fun trip and not far at all. A good place to get away for the weekend or even a day and have some fun, looking forward to more trips in the future!

 

Just a heads up to avoid the water crossing and avoid water damage you can go up to the Razor road exit to gain access to the canyon