Mojave Road

connor grimes

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Recently ran the Mojave Rd from Barstow CA to Needles NV. Spent 3 days 2 nights checking out the many cool sites such as the spooky cave, lava tubes, landscapes and desert houses and oddities. We faced high winds the first night but was met with calm weather the rest of the trip. Suffered a sliced sidewall the 2nd day which left me with a little anxiety being in the middle of desert with no spare and only a tire plug kit and the precious cargo of my girlfriend. Luckily, we made it the rest of the way without incident. Highly recommend this trip to anyone thinking about it. There was 1-2 water crossings near Afton Canyon about 2 feet deep nothing serious. We hardly used 4wd anywhere on the trail except for a few offshoots not on the Mojave rd. I used about 17-18 gallons of gas so I would highly recommend carrying spare fuel.

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how to you get there?


i highly recommend the trails off-road app it has great navigation and waypoints for stopping and site seeing. I ran the trail from Barstow to needles . I recommend this way and driving home via needles freeway . If you start in Barstow head to Alvord mountain Rd and you will see Mojave rd . Make sure to have some type of GPS it is very easy to make wrong turns and end up going the completely wrong way. I would either print or make sure you have offline available navigations . And bring spare fuel and water just in case
 
Man I don’t care if this is a Jeep forum or not trains are so effing cool. Thanks for catching that little tidbit for us railfans.
 
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