If I would have seen this post yesterday I would have met up with you and wheeled around JT no problem since its my backyard at the base of the hill down about 15 mins from Berdoo Canyon trail head. Hopefully you made it out there today and had a good time.
And for all the other post about Berdoo Canyon just for the record it's a perfect trail for any beginner to get their feet wet even 2wd lifted rigs and if you can't handle that trail 4wd or 2wd then you have know business getting into off roading outside of fire roads, period.

Whenever you decide you wanna roll out to JT area or Meccatopia area or Idylwild area hit me up and I will go wheel around with you anytime if wanna do scenic trails, intermediate, whatever it don't matter.

gonna be busy the next few weeks, but i will take that offer. i will let you know a week or so in advanced when i decide to go. thanks!

Lost my head and went by what was written.

And I forgot to mention that Berdoo Canyon Rd. For the last couple years now is actually thee designated Off Road for Joshua Tree Tours Trail. There is a company in Palm Springs that take people on a off road adventure sight seeing tour using a couple jeeps and a couple original hummer's that run three times a day and they got the signed approval to use Berdoo Rd. They start in Palm Springs then down Dillion Rd to Berdoo Rd up to Joshua Tree using geology tour Rd then shoot back down thermal canyon to Dillion Rd to Palm Springs.
And those guys hammer it pretty good too one of my buddies is one of the drivers and he has a good o'l time with the tourist ..haha.
Point is this tells you right there what it's like Scenic and it covers a lil of everything sand sections, path options , rock garden sections, constant slight climb and the whole time the views are killer and both sides of the trail have killer canyon walls.

Berdoo Rd use to be the entrance into Joshua tree until the entire Rd was washed away which created the wide canyon it is today and you can still see slabs and sections of the old Rd throughout the trail going up.

Yeah, the sections of old pavement were interesting.

Occasionally I come across small sections of what must be old pavement in various other places. Berdoo helps give a good picture how roads disappear.

Just came out of Joshua Tree from this past weekend. I'd suggest not taking Old Dale Mine road without 4wd, it's rocky, steep, and washed out in places. I came from the 29 Palms side (Gold Crown rd) and going downhill it wasn't bad, but I was still in 4lo in some places.

Pinkham is absolutely perfect, Old Dale Mine road from the middle of the park up to the loose rocky section is a good fun run too.

Wish I had seen this last week, we were camped up on the north end Friday-Sunday and I was hanging around town almost all day Sunday because we had a Tacoma with a bent tie rod.

I had a guy coming up Old Dale while I was going down in a Silverado tell me it was really hairy. It wasn't bad except for a couple spots, but I could tell he didn't really know what he was doing either. I had to back up the road in 4lo because he didn't stop at the switch back that had all the space to pass on (I saw him coming) Kinda annoying.

I came through that way at night one time on my way to visit a friend in La Quinta. Having been on Old Dale Rd from the other side, I assumed it would be a fairly quick route. It wasn't hard, just much slower than I had assumed. Under the circumstances I couldn't help but be a little annoyed (totally my fault) since I was, to a small degree, on a time schedule. Was a shame that my faulty assumption turned what should have been a fun run into something a little annoying.

Next time I'll try to give a little more advance notice when I'm in town. But I hope to go out there a lot more so I'll definitely post up. Trying to go out a lot more often. Not just JT but all of SoCal.

"Wish I had seen this last week, we were camped up on the north end Friday-Sunday and I was hanging around town almost all day Sunday because we had a Tacoma with a bent tie rod."

I know. I always see things too late too. Next time 👌🏼 how was the camping. I think next time I'm going to camp. I have a friend that lives in JT so I stayed there last weekend.

This thread needs a few picts! Hope you don't mind some pictures from my trip last December exiting the park!

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Looks like top of Berdoo Canyon Rd/geology tour Rd in pic 1
Middle of Berdoo Canyon Rd in pic 2
And exiting the beginning/entrance area of Berdoo Canyon Rd in pic 3

Correct!! Nice work.

Not trying to wake a dead thread but after reading this thread prior to checking this trail out last week, I just had to share this pic. While heading down, we bumped into a guy in a vw bus going up into the park. He had already made it pretty far inside, not sure if he finished in one piece but if a bus can make it, a 2wd 4runner shouldn't have a problem.



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Went north on berdoo a few weeks ago in my stock t4r.. there were 2 spots that were a bit rocky and narrow.. but the highlight of the trip was this guy



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