Morrison Jeep Trail, Wyoming 8.22.21

Been wanting to hit up Morrison Jeep Trail for a couple of years now but things just seemed to getting in the way. So as part of a 4500+ mile road trip this year I made driving the trail the first stop on my trip.

I had thought of running the entire trail starting at switchbacks but I ultimately decided to just drive the upper portion of the trail and then check out Fantan and Sawtooth Lakes (never did make it back to Sawtooth).

Got an early morning start since I didn't really run into any traffic on the trail (which I didn't till I started back and it was just a Jeep) but figured I wouldn't have much since the area just seemed a little dead.

Starting out a slightly muddy trail from the storm the previous night.








One of the muddy spots on the trail.

 

This was the hardest spot I encountered on the trail a some what slick, washed out rocky section of the trail (I walked this before driving up to try and find a good line). From what I can tell after looking at some more videos on Youtube I found a video from a few months prior of this section that showed this area in better condition. The lower and middle part of this section didn't give me too much trouble but the upper section with some large rocks gave me a bit of trouble but I got though it.



About the middle of this section.






Called it quits around this point.


The trail continuing on.


Heading back down.


Coming back down the trouble spot. Needless, to say I thought I had a good line picked to make this descent but my truck more slid off a rock and I more or less did a belly flop on to a rock putting a descent dent in the skid plate right in front of the oil pan drain plug (I'm glad I put a RCI steel skid plate on before I left the stock plate and probably my oil pan would've been toast after looking at where I hit).




Clouds clearing up and sun coming out.








Back at the trailhead.

 

Had to stop at the Top of the World Store (got fuel and checked out the store).


Fantan and Sawtooth Lakes area after lunch.




Fantan Lake - fairly easy trail to get back and a few areas to camp around the lake.


Heading back Sawtooth Lake, Morrision Jeep trail is somewhere at the base of the mountains in the background.












I went about 3/4's of the way back to Sawtooth Lake (one of the first lakes you see off of Morrison) but I was a little beat from driving Morrison so I decided to head back to camp to relax and hiking around one of the lakes.


I don't know why I waited so long to check out this area it was great. I really want to head back now to this area and do some more camping, hiking and try my luck at fishing in the various lakes.