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Posted By: jerky1280 Info: The 4wd road was passable by my AWD CRV this morning. If you are familiar with driving on poor dirt roads this type of vehicle is fine. A creek runs across the road; while it looks scary, it’s easily passable by almost any vehicle and only a foot or two deep. |
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Posted By: jchapell Info: Drove within 100 feet of the summer 4WD TH in a stock 2005 4runner with no bottom scrapes, and relatively easygoing overall. There’s a pretty rough section about .5 miles in, and then a stream crossing at 1.5 miles. Virtually no snow on the road on this date, but would think twice about it if it was rainy. |
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Posted By: Eagle Eye Info: Now able to drive to within 200 yards of the upper TH in a high clearance 4wd. There is a large tree down & blocking the very last section of the road. |
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Posted By: Eagle Eye Info: The 4WD road from the lower TH starts out dry but has still only been driven on for about .2 miles. Some sections are melted down to dirt further on. There is a big pool of water in the middle of the road. See picture. |
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Posted By: Hoot Info: As of MLK weekend, there’s a nice big snowshoe trench from the parking area all the way up to tree line. |
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Posted By: Brian Thomas Info: Low water at the creek crossing and the rest of the road to upper TH is 100% dry. |
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Posted By: alpinenut Info: No snow. Only saw 4wd SUVs Trucks and Jeep at upper trailhead. Not sure it’s Subaruable due to big dips and humps in road. I wouldn’t but I’be never owned one. Creek crossing seemed about 6" deep. |
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Posted By: Danger_D Info: The 4WD road we free of snow all the way until the upper trailhead. Those bumps/mounds are pretty large, but my RAV4 did just fine |
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Posted By: chrislwillers Info: As previous poster mentioned, large mounds that I wouldn’t want to drive a long car over for fear of hitting the bottom pretty hard. There are also some spots where some solid tire placement is required or you could get a little wonky. Creek was about 6" yesterday when I drove through. Also, an FYI, if you follow the GPS coordinates with a Garmin to the 4WD trailhead as listed in Roach’s book, it’ll make you turn left up a fairly steep road instead of turning right into the parking lot. I started to go up before I realized my error. |
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Posted By: merrion13 Info: Road has several large berms/mounds that might catch something with a long wheelbase, but otherwise doable in stock SUV. There was a Crosstrek at the end of it. Creek crossing is only 3 inches deep at worst. |
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Posted By: hokiehead Info: 4WD road is Subaruable to the TH. Note the comments below about the creek crossing, which is not mentioned in the TH description. Other than that, road is clear and dry. |
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Posted By: Zmacchi Info: 4WD road accessible all the way to the Upper South TH. Kinda muddy but it didn’t affect my Cherokee. |
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Posted By: lrosenmayer6 Info: Made it all the way up, across the creek crossing and to the 4WD trailhead at 10,400’ in a Subaru Outback. Road was completely dry going up at 5AM and pretty muddy coming down at 3PM. I think anybody with high clearance and 4WD could make it all the way to the 4WD trailhead by now. |
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Posted By: Quinny15 Info: Winter TH clear and 4WD road is passable to about 1.5 miles/10,200‘ just shy of the summer TH in a Subaru Outback. Road is great in early morning, but melted out by noon which wasn‘t a problem going down, may be a problem to get traction coming up though. Parking was fine in some snow before the creek crossing and an icy uphill that I did not want to push the car up. Easy walk on the road from there. Almost bottomed out once on the road going up and had a few instances of one wheel in the air. |
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Posted By: kayleenann8 Info: We parked at the lower 2WD trailhead to be safe. The roads to the 2WD are all totally clear and dry. We walked up the 4WD road to the trail head for Elbert -- the 4WD road is mostly dry with the occasional wet pot hole. There was snow at the trail head though. |
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Posted By: Brian Thomas Info: From the 2WD TH to the creek crossing, it is a mix of mud and snow. A Toyota 4-Runner made it to just below there. After the creek crossing it is 99% snow. |
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Posted By: jrs1965 Info: Made it up to about 200 yards before the upper trailhead in my stock Ram 1500 (4x4). At 10,400 the trail was still snow covered and I was slipping getting up the last steep grade so I backed out. Parked about 200 yards below that point at 10,200. If there’s no new snow and it’s warm this week getting up to the upper trailhead might be possible. Not recommended unless you’ve got skills and the gear to do a self recovery! |
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Posted By: JQDivide Info: Snow covered. Park at 2wd TH. There were some tire tracks for the first 1/4 mile or so, but they turned back. There were older tire tracks maybe for a 1/2 mile, but only boot and skin tracks after that. |
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Posted By: coriverdude Info: Road is in good shape, well maintained and not as rocky as I thought it would be. The water bars between the 2WD trailhead and 4WD trailhead do require clearance. Had to scoot my frame over one, but otherwise had no problem in a stock 2004 Tacoma. Beautiful drive actually, and lots of parking near the 4WD trailhead. I only wish I had been there when the aspens were changing -- that alone would have been worth the drive! |
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Posted By: Eagle Eye Info: Still clear and good to the upper 4WD trail head. Very nice for October! It would be easy to scrape or high-center on this road. The most torn up part of the road is at the very end. |
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Posted By: nursemmy Info: Made it to 4WD trailhead in a stock 2015 Tundra TRD. Lightly scraped the bottom a couple of times. |
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Posted By: Sches3344 Info: Drove to top of 4 wheel drive TH in Ram 1500 Pickup. High clearance needed, hit running boards a few times. 4 wheel drive not necessary, just clearance. Creek crossing no issue. Pretty campsites along road, all but one unoccupied. Beautiful sunset driving out. |
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