This is a drive south of Moab and east of Canyonlands. It Starts at the McDonalds in Moab, you find Cane Creek road and follow it along the south bank of the Colorado on a paved road for a good distance.
The pavement ends and turns south away from, the Colorado River. It eventually becomes pretty rough and takes you to a pass called Hurrah Pass.
Once over the pass, and down the other side you come to a sign that says Chicken Corners to the right and Lockhart Basin to the left. The sign is whimsical and you can't miss it.
A few miles further is the end of the road where a trail begins. The legend says that the road has a narrow place with a drop off that some people chicken out and refuse to ride across. We never saw such a place.
But at the end of the road, foot trail does offer such a place.
If you continue out the trail past the narrow spot, you get close to the Colorado goose neck that is seen from Deadhorse point.
Google Maps shows the drive as 19.6 miles and 1 hour 24 minutes. High clearance and good tires are essential. I never needed 4wd, but if it were wet, you probably would.
Here is a view of the area from The Anticline Overlook which is reached via a completely different route, but it shows the road clearly winding its way along on the right side of that ridge to Hurrah Pass and then back along the left side.
Here is a view from Hurrah Pass looking north
The Chicken Corners sign
View of the trail from the end of the road.
My partner Rick Knepper negotiating the trail
Your truly doing the same.
The pavement ends and turns south away from, the Colorado River. It eventually becomes pretty rough and takes you to a pass called Hurrah Pass.
Once over the pass, and down the other side you come to a sign that says Chicken Corners to the right and Lockhart Basin to the left. The sign is whimsical and you can't miss it.
A few miles further is the end of the road where a trail begins. The legend says that the road has a narrow place with a drop off that some people chicken out and refuse to ride across. We never saw such a place.
But at the end of the road, foot trail does offer such a place.
If you continue out the trail past the narrow spot, you get close to the Colorado goose neck that is seen from Deadhorse point.
Google Maps shows the drive as 19.6 miles and 1 hour 24 minutes. High clearance and good tires are essential. I never needed 4wd, but if it were wet, you probably would.
Here is a view of the area from The Anticline Overlook which is reached via a completely different route, but it shows the road clearly winding its way along on the right side of that ridge to Hurrah Pass and then back along the left side.
Here is a view from Hurrah Pass looking north
The Chicken Corners sign
View of the trail from the end of the road.
My partner Rick Knepper negotiating the trail
Your truly doing the same.
