I went to Utah on ‘business’ and heard an earful about the ATV trail’s there. Apparently they have 50” trails and 60” trails. The wider trails are for UTVs (this is where Pilots fit). Apparently they are very good about allowing ATV’s to ride in to towns (it’s posted if allowed) and they are tolerant of ATVs riding in to and out of camps. But don’t push the rules, they will ticket you in a heart beat if you annoy them (I suspect it has something to do with letting ‘sinners’ contribute more to the local economy). Most of the people I talked to had a picture of the mormon temple in Salt Lake City hanging on the wall. All very nice people, put out a box of chocolates or made a cake for us. They could not have been more hospitable.

The trail heads do have posts set at 50” or 60” apart and the trails are well marked I was told (didn’t do any riding, temp was in the single digits). The area I was in was around Richfield up to Salt Lake City. The main trails seam to be around Richfield, look for the junction of I-70 and I-15. This is the area that the big ATV jamboree takes place every year. The best link I have found so far is:

http://www.atvutah.com/trails.htm

The area I heard about would be the Piute and great western trails. I have not found a site with good maps yet, it seams there are lots of maps for sale though. I think a phone call to the area forest service would be in order. Need to find a good campground that has ATV access to the trails.

Right now I’m thinking a trip out west in ’09 to check this out with the family. I have the 4th week off (new thing starting this year, no holidays till the 4th seams like a long dry spell to me). Add a week of vacation and make a big circle, out to Utah, down to Tucson Az to visit the wife’s family and back via Little Sahara (it’s going to be hot there isn’t it). A year is a long ways off but …

I didnt see a state location map or directions maybe I missed it?

I looked into this place not too long ago...here is what I found:

http://www.atvutah.com/southern/paiute/contents.htm
http://www.utah.com/offroad/paiute_trail.htm

Pics:
http://www.atvutah.com/photos/paiute_trail/index.html
http://www.marysvale.org/atvphoto1.html
http://www.cqr.org/DTChapter/Photos/Paiute/Paiute.htm
Ridgerunner http://www.atvutah.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/Ya ... 46419935/0
Interesting... http://www.atvutah.com/riders_reports/R ... page_1.htm Make sure to click through the various pages...of note, the camera watching ATVs from the trees....


Nice camping spot: http://www.candymountainresort.com/rv-park.html & http://www.campatvplay.com/index.html

Thanks for the links, looks like its right on the way home from a big west trip.

It would be for you...question is, which part of it would you ride? Lots of ground to cover out there.... Too bad they have the "width gates" as I'd love to tear of some of those trails with the Drak.

I would use the quads for an all day trail ride then once I found a good section for the Pilots switch them out.

Tedpilot, that info is perfect. Did you make a trip? What did you do and what would you do different? Pictures? Thanks for sharing.

Lee

Lee, I have not been. I look from time to time for good places to ride and came across this area. It appears to be a mecca of ATV trail riding.

Moab has lots of jeep trails the drak would fit on, but the terrain is more of a slow paced challenge... I would think the utv's are as wide as a pilot??? Again I have never been, but have driven the big truck thru there and it is beautiful country!!!