Exploring Desert Roads and Trails

Trails and Roads by State

When you're planning to explore the desert from the comfort of your car, where to go and what to see is always the big question. DesertUSA staff and our writers have traveled all over the deserts of the southwest and California. We've made a list of our top places to visit. Here are links to our DesertUSA articles and some park driving tours, on and off paved roads. They're sorted by state.

Monument Valley

General Articles on Travel

• Planning a Safe Summer Road Trip
• American West and Deep South
• 4-Wheel Trail Driving Tips
  
• Recreational Vehicles - Tips and Places to Go
• Beware: Your GPS May Get You in Serious Trouble
• Too Darn Hot - Tips on Driving in the Desert
• Night Driving: Enjoying Desert Wildlife After Dark

BY STATE

Arizona

• Arizona - More Places To Go
• At the Edge of the Tuweep Wilderness
• Desert Museums
• Ehrenberg Sandbowl OHV Area
• The Apache Trail - 47 Mile Historic Route
• Four Drives into the Heart of Desert Wildflower Country
• Hot Well Dunes Recreation Area
• Monument Valley Adventure
• Touring Apache Country
• Florence Coke Ovens
  
• El Camino Del Diablo - The Devil's Highway

Joshua Tree National Park

California

• Anza-Borrego Desert SP 4WD Trails
• Bradshaw Trail
• Bonanza Trail - Death Valley
• California Desert District - Many BLM Areas
• California More Places To Go
• Death Valley NP 4WD Trails
• Death Valley Reprieve
• Death Valley Winter Washout
• Desert Museums
• East-Mojave-Heritage-Trail
• El Mirage OHV Area
• Four Drives into the Heart of Desert Wildflower Country
• 4-Wheeling the Lippincott Mine Road - Death Valley
• Ghost Town Montgomery City
• Goffs and Its Schoolhouse
• Jawbone & Butterbredt Spring
• Johnson Valley OHV Area
• Joshua Tree NP 4WD Trails
• Juniper Flats BLM Area
• Life & Lore Abound on Death Valley 2-Day Excursion
• The Mojave Road in the Mojave desert
• Murals in Barstow
• Nature's Palette Revealed in Painted Canyon
• Owens River Red Apple Railroad
• Peggy Sue's Diner in Yermo, Ca
• Piercing the Heart of the Panamints via Goler Canyon - Death Valley NP
• Route 66 Bagdad, Amboy, Essex, Fenner and Goffs.
• Stoddard Valley OHV Area
• The Racetrack Playa - Death Valley NP
• Titus Canyon Tour - Death Valley NP
• Trona Pinnacles BLM Area
• Two-Desert Jeep Tour - Old Dale & Gold Crown Roads - Joshua Tree NP
• Zzyzx, Explore an abandoned Mineral Springs Resort

Colorado

• Colorado - More Places To Go
• Desert Dinosaur Hunting Grounds



Valley of Fire Nevada

Nevada

• Ghost Towns of the Mojave Desert
• Desert Museums
• Travel Logs of Ara and Spirit
• Nevada - More Places To Go
• Nevada's Something-for-Everyone -
  Red Rock Canyon & Mountain Springs
• The Loneliest Road in America:
  Nevada's U.S. Route 50 Bitter Springs Trail Near Las Vegas
  

New Mexico
• Desert Museums
• New Mexico More Places To Go

 



Chihuahuan Desert wilderness, along the Rio Grande 

Texas

• Magic in the Mountains
• Texas Socorro Mission Preservation Project
• Hueco Tanks, an Island in the Desert Sun
• Texas - More Places To Go
  
  



Canyonlands National Park Utah

Utah

• Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park
• Desert Dinosaur Hunting Grounds
• Glen Canyon NRA/Lake Powell
• Utah - More Places To Go
• Valley of the Gods
  
• Various Utah OHV Areas - BLM
  

 



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