10/23/2016 Posted On: 10/23/2016 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. | 2 |
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10/8/2016 Posted On: 10/8/2016 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 | ||||
9/27/2016 Posted On: 9/28/2016 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. | ||||
7/24/2016 Posted On: 7/27/2016 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. | ||||
6/4/2016 Posted On: 6/5/2016 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. | ||||
5/9/2016 Posted On: 5/9/2016 By: Zmacchi Info: 4WD road accessible all the way to the Upper South TH. Kinda muddy but it didn't affect my Cherokee. | ||||
5/4/2016 Posted On: 5/5/2016 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. | ||||
5/1/2016 Posted On: 5/1/2016 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. | ||||
4/24/2016 Posted On: 4/24/2016 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. | ||||
4/21/2016 Posted On: 4/22/2016 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. | ||||
4/3/2016 Posted On: 4/4/2016 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! | ||||
1/18/2016 Posted On: 1/18/2016 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. | ||||
10/16/2015 Posted On: 10/17/2015 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! | ||||
10/11/2015 Posted On: 10/12/2015 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. | ||||
8/25/2015 Posted On: 8/26/2015 By: nursemmy Info: Made it to 4WD trailhead in a stock 2015 Tundra TRD. Lightly scraped the bottom a couple of times. |
