Practical

Requires 4WD

6 destinations along 6 roads

6 requires 4wd stops across the guide.

CR-21

Animas Forks

Silverton

A silver camp at 11,200 feet where the Animas River's three forks meet, with the 1879 Duncan house and its bay window still standing on the Alpine Loop.

I-701

San Rafael Swell

Castle Dale

A massive dome of exposed rock layers with slot canyons and natural bridges

US-1911

Boar's Tusk and the Killpecker Dunes

Rock Springs

The throat of a vanished volcano made of rock from the mantle, standing over a fifty-five-mile river of dunes that crosses the Continental Divide.

Burr Trail Road1

Burr Trail Road

Boulder

A jaw-dropping backcountry road through slot canyons to Capitol Reef

Cottonwood Canyon Road1

Grosvenor Arch

Cannonville

A massive double arch named for the National Geographic Society president

Racetrack Valley Road (dirt, off North Death Valley Highway)1

Racetrack Playa

Stovepipe Wells

A dead-flat lakebed where rocks leave trails behind them, twenty-seven miles down a tire-shredding road.

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