mellow wheeling off 395?

grave · 2016-09-28T18:36:47+00:00

my wife and i are camping at onion valley (west of independence) for two nights in late october and are wanting to do a little bit of exploring. we're heading up on saturday the 22nd, leaving monday the 24th and heading to vegas for the night, then to UT 'til saturday. i'm new to 4WD so we're looking for something mellow to hit on the way to OV, or on the way to vegas, or on the way from vegas up to st. george. we were thinking of heading up to the ancient bristlecone pine forest, then over to the 95 and down into vegas, but now i want to start looking for trails through death valley area than can get us over into NV. also looking for suggestions between las vegas and st. george. we want to go in to valley of fire state park on the way, so i'm going to do some research into trails in that area. i'm not as set up as a lot of you folks are... no compressor, no rad GPS, none of that fancy stuff... just my new-to-me truck. thanks for any suggestions! anyone is more than welcome to join us on the trails.

Thread starter grave
Start date Sep 28, 2016

BobsTrail

Senior Member

Oct 8, 2016

grave said:
Yah we were thinking of heading through there on the way home from UT. any trail suggestions?

Kelbaker Road south from Baker to Kelso Depot. Then Lava Tube and Aiken cinder mine or Macedona Canyon under train bridge to Wild Horse road to Hole in the Wall. The big yellow map shows these.

The Lava Tube and Aiken Mine are my favorites. There are ranger stations with restrooms at Kelso Depot and Hole in the Wall.