Trails that are 1.5 Hours or Less from Your Home
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DWiggles
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Here in good ol' Houston, Texas we have...nothing. zilch. Zero. Nodda. Within 1.5 hrs drive at 80mph... double the drive time @ 80mph though, and we have... oh... still NOTHING... dont move to Houston...
Awesome thread though!
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Mike_JK_Houston_711
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haha, i said the same thing. we got the beach though! other than that, everything else is atleast 3 hrs away.
LOL!! I love Texas but it is a tough state to be in when it comes to wheeling. Our son used to live in San Angelo and man, the drive out to visit him was always a tough one :crazyeyes:
Mike_JK_Houston_711
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And actually, San Angelo is some of the better wheeling in texas to be had. They have twin buttes reservoir there which is a cool place. And within a couple hours of some really awesome granite rock gardens in Mason, Brady and Fredericksburg. That drive must have been fun :cheesy:
Jackal01
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haha, i said the same thing. we got the beach though! other than that, everything else is atleast 3 hrs away.
Definitely not true. We have some good ones around here.
We have The Woodlands Mall. Willowbrook mall. Baybrook Mall. The Galleria (big boy lines for the 40s, DTD crowd).
tdougherty81
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Don't forget the outlet malls.
tgoss
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I love Valley of the Moons!
Roughly 75 miles from my house, 1hr 20min
Corral Canyon 65 Miles roughly 1hr 15min: Bronco Peak, Sidewinder, 911A, Gunslinger, Bronco Flats & Espenoza
Battle Born JK
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Brute
Hooked
I need to make a 6 hour plane ride, 25 min Lyft ride from the airport to my condo in Seattle before I even step inside my rig...which I'm doing tomorrow
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black pearl
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I got a couple OHV parks two hours from me south cow mountain and Knoxville public lands and if I bogie I could be at the Rubicon in just under four hours
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Draconianwinter
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Sadly only one that I have been to that is close by aside from windrock which is 2 hours away is Prentice cooper. Pretty easy place to go with a couple spots out toward the end of Haley Rd. It's about 20 miles from my door step around 30 minutes to get too. Again nothing major.
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MR.Ty
Token East Coast Guy
I've got two places from my house in Virginia Beach that you can legally shit into 4wd.
First is Starr Motors Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep Dealership in Suffolk VA. 45mins/40 miles
About 10 acres of land that the dealership owners open to various clubs and charities a few times a year.
Here I am, stuck on one of the rock hills.
Next is Corolla NC. About 60 miles/1.5 hours from my house to the start of the beach.
First is Starr Motors Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep Dealership in Suffolk VA. 45mins/40 miles
About 10 acres of land that the dealership owners open to various clubs and charities a few times a year.
Here I am, stuck on one of the rock hills.
Next is Corolla NC. About 60 miles/1.5 hours from my house to the start of the beach.
TrainWreck618
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bigcale
Caught the Bug
Fair point, I did narrow down that list to the ones in the county I live in and the 5 or so closest counties to where I live. To be honest there are more that I could have put in in other counties that I can get to in 1.5 hours or less. That site does list close to 400 trails in our wonderful state though. Here is the list of the ones I have ran in 2016, within the 1.5 hour dive limit that I actually have pictures from the trails. Although I don't tend to take many pictures of my own Jeep from outside the drivers seat, since my passenger is usually my dog.
Johnny Park Road. 51 Miles, 1 hour 15 minutes. Easy trail is at the end of the road that leads to my best friend’s house. It has some optional obstacles we “test” on. We usually run this on the way to the Camp Dick trail system but the mall traffic can be annoying:
The Camp Dick trails: 51 miles 1 hour 20 minutes. This is the start of a few different trails:
Middle St. Vrain, following some guy in a WJ:
Coney Flats, not me but on a run from WAL:
T-33A Plane Crash, fun trail leads to a plane crash from the 60’s:
Ironclads, mostly boring with some poser rocks:
Miller Rock. 52 Miles, 1 hour 20 minutes. Fun trail, pretty much dead ends after crossing a creek only two big obstacles, my friends TJ get stuck because of old bald KM2’s:
Pickle Gulch. 32 miles, 49 minutes. Has my favorite campsite along this trail.
Rollins Pass East 37 Miles, 52 Minutes. This is basically a rough dirt road, but it leads to the Jenny Creek trail. Jenny Creek is nice on a hot day as it runs along and in and out of the creek:
Sugarloaf Mountain trail network 32 Miles, 55 Minutes. This includes Switzerland Trail, Pennsylvania Gulch, and Gordon Gulch. Mostly mild trails but I have spent a few afternoons just trying out different spurs:
The trails between Idaho Springs and Central City. 37 miles, 45 minutes. This is a big network of trails on mostly public land that always seems to have traffic on. The trails include Yankee Hill, Cumberland Gulch, Loch Lomond, Miners Gulch, Chinns Lake, Sheridan Hill, Russell Gulch and probably a bunch of others that I am forgetting. Most are doable in a stock SUV, some have some difficult optional lines.
Red Cone Peak. 60 miles, 1 hour 15 minutes. Feels like driving on the top of the world, kinds is since you are above timberline for most of it.
Radical Hill, Red Cone leads you to this trail. Some off camber shelf road trails but the views are worth the pucker.
Slaughterhouse Gulch. 47 miles, 55 Minutes. Can be run almost year round:
C.O.R.E.: 68 miles, 1 hour. Off road park with rock piles, desert and rally racing courses. Don’t have Jeep pictures from there but, just to be contrary, this is my Subaru from a rally cross I ran there a few years ago:
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MR.Ty
Token East Coast Guy
Lol! Is it really that hard to believe? :crazyeyes:
WJCO
Meme King
Hey, Ty. Go back and read your post. :cheesy:
bigcale
Caught the Bug
I thought that what a man does with his transfer case lever was his business. :brows:
MR.Ty
Token East Coast Guy
WJCO
Meme King
I think I know that guy.....