9/3/2023 Posted On: 9/3/2023 By: davebelin Info: Drove this road in my stock Subaru Outback with summer tires without much tread. There was one rough spot where I had to back up and give it some more gas to get through. We parked at the switchback where the radio towers are, at about 10,800'. There were cars parked about half a mile further up, and also at other switchbacks higher up. As others have noted, it's a very narrow road with severely limited passing opportunities. Fortunately, we didn't come across anyone on the way up at 7am. We started the descent from the radio towers at 12 noon and encountered only one vehicle coming up. We were able to squeeze by but it was very tight. The drive up saved us 2,000 vertical feet and 4+ miles round trip | ||||
8/28/2023 Posted On: 8/29/2023 By: GuiGirard Info: I made it fine to the radio towers (and I could have made it just as fine to the campsites slightly further up) with an Outback, but there are a few rocky obstacles about half way up that take some nerves. The impossibility to turn around was decisive in my will to make it through these. The width of the road is nerve wrecking, however. I don't know how I managed to make it to go by three descending vehicles on my way up. There is partial visibility of upcoming traffic when driving down but it's not great and there's some exposure at places too. | ||||
7/16/2023 Posted On: 7/16/2023 By: burnhamc Info: Radio lot was fairly full but you could have probably squeezed another car or two in, around 8:30am. A number of more places above. Couple of F-150s stuffed in a switchback. Road wasnt too difficult, rocky and bumpy. A Suburban had made it to the top. | ||||
7/16/2023 Posted On: 7/16/2023 By: burnhamc Info: Radio lot was fairly full but you could have probably squeezed another car or two in, around 8:30am. A number of more places above. Couple of F-150s stuffed in a switchback. Road wasnt too difficult, rocky and bumpy. A Suburban had made it to the top. | ||||
7/8/2023 Posted On: 7/8/2023 By: V1per41 Info: Not too bad of a drive to the towers. Towers parking was full at 7:00am on a Saturday, but the next parking area has a few available and there might have been another 5 or so beyond that. Pictures are of the two hardest features beyond most of the parking if someone's wants to try and make it further. Nothing most of the road from 2WD lot to towers was pretty straight forward, just narrow with very few pull-offs. We didn't run into anyone trying to drive up when we came down around noon. | 1 |
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6/24/2023 Posted On: 6/25/2023 By: Mitsugi Info: This road is pretty easy. There is 1 spot where our Toyota Highlander had to back up and get some speed to get over the section but otherwise, barely class 3 road. A comment. I dunno what is it with the gatekeeping on this website but that radio tower has parking for like 30 cars, not a "couple" cars. I counted at least 15 cars at the tower and more above and below on the road. And there is parking at every switchback turn. Highest car was a Honda CRV well above the radio towers. Also, those towers are nowhere close to the hike start. It's easily a 30 minute walk to the trail entrance. | 1 |
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4/9/2023 Posted On: 4/12/2023 By: Eagle Eye Info: The trailhead has a nice clean bathroom w/ tp! The road starts dry from the Frontier Ranch big parking area there but in no distance (~.5 mile) has gone bad --as in mud & drifts and the evidence left from $tuck vehicle$. But it has been foot/ski/snowshoe/traveled quite a bit. I even see a residual of two very wide snowcat tracks, shown clearly in a Jan Trailhead Conditions photo. Some places on the road have been in a thaw/freeze cycle for a while and are very smooth & slick. | ||||
2/12/2023 Posted On: 2/12/2023 By: Thevirtualsherpa Info: Road is not in, no matter how good you think your vehicle is. Hopefully this one is moved soon, was not there when I started. Road is well traveled to towers with far less foot traffic past there. | 1 |
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1/27/2023 Posted On: 1/27/2023 By: JasonCrane Info: From BV, CR321 is in great winter shape & easy 2WD to lower Princeton TH. Parking area has been plowed recently & despite a couple inches of fresh snow, it's tire tracked-out. Frontier Ranch has provided a porta-potty. CR322 has fresh snowcat tracks up to Comm Towers. It appears a couple of 'Trailhead Heros' attempted to drive up Mt. Princeton Road before performing tight 3-point turns on narrow passes with trees and rocks on the uphill side and drop-offs on the downhill side. Park at the lower summer TH and hike in. | 4 |
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11/12/2022 Posted On: 11/21/2022 By: mtn14 Info: Minimal snow up to the cell towers - the Outback had zero problems. Tractor tracks continue a little further up from the towers for those wanting to park at the camp sites. Beyond that, its a no-go. | ||||
9/5/2022 Posted On: 9/5/2022 By: conorpowderhunter Info: Drove a z71 1/2 silverado up here easily. The road is subaruable for sure but the only issue is passing other vehicles coming up or down. 1 lane road with very few pulloffs. Came up here 8pm on a Monday so very little traffic. | 1 |
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9/3/2022 Posted On: 9/6/2022 By: aldsw Info: As others have said, the most difficult part of the road is that it's only one lane 99% of the way up with very few places to pull over to pass. I was able to easily make it to the parking at 11,200 in a Subaru Outback. Just past that there was a large rock in the trail that I probably could have made it past but decided we wanted to camp below treeline anyways so didn't try. There were great spots to camp at 11,200 and the road walk is easy. If you drive all the way to 12k, you have to hike back down the road to get to the trailhead (and finish your hike back up that hill). We witnessed a Jeep coming down the road around 11,500, with 4 FJ's coming up the road at the same time. There was no place for anyone to pull over within 1/4 mile. We kept hiking so I don't know how it worked out but I'm sure it wasn't fun for anyone. I had no regrets parking at 11,200. | ||||
7/28/2022 Posted On: 7/29/2022 By: Pedro F Info: Question is more a matter of ground clearance than steepness / traction. Drove a 2WD Acadia with standard road tires up to the parking spots past the radio towers. Only had a few spots with some wheelslip, which traction control quickly got under control -- no real issue. However, there were a handful of spots that either had rocks protruding up 4" or had a fairly prominent quickly undulating bump across the entirety of the road...and given the road's well-documented narrowness, there isn't always an opportunity to simply pick a different line and avoid the obstacle. If you have a vehicle that doesn't have at least modest ground clearance, you may find yourself in a scrape situation | 5 |
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7/17/2022 Posted On: 7/17/2022 By: errinneh Info: Drove up to the radio towers in a stock Subaru Ascent. Driving on a Sunday morning at 5am, nobody was coming down and luckily on our way down Sunday afternoon, nobody was coming up. The drive from the 2wd parking lot to the radio towers took 35 minutes. The 8.7 inch clearance of the Subaru was fine and the road was in pretty good condition all things considered. Glad we didn't have to pass anyone as that would have been complicated. | ||||
6/26/2022 Posted On: 6/26/2022 By: chin1997 Info: Drove the road yesterday in a 2013 Subaru Impreza with very low ground clearance. Took my sweet time but did manage to get up to the communication towers and park. While up there we saw a front wheel drive Toyota Camry. Anything with decent clearance can get up on a dry day with a good amount of maneuvering and time. |
