For the DFW crew, Crossbar is the best wheeling in a 4 hour drive, and we have good wheeling friends in Norman, OK so we go to Crossbar as much as we can. Turner falls is gorgeous and only 5 min from the park, so if you're looking for more than wheeling it's got a little bit of that too. The park itself is huge, something like 6000 acres, wooded, rocky, and wet in some places. I don't know what people actually mean when they say 'rock crawling" but this is our version of it.
was 68F when I left my house, so I dressed a little warmer than usual because I wanted to go doors-off. Thankfully had a tail wind so I didn't have to deal with an annoying cross wind through the cab. Ended up being a gorgeous morning/day. Then there was a wreck on the highway I use for the last 30 minutes, so Waze routed me on the backroads and with the sun at my back. Made for a really fun ride home, glad I left the doors there this time around.
Sorry for the pictures of the JKU, I was trailing him most of the day so you're seeing what I saw.
This was about midway on a pretty challenging trail called Onion Patch. We met up with a dad & kid on 4 wheelers....the kid was scared out of his mind, but he was literally caught between some rocks and a hard place.
Our buddy in the perpetually broke down Sami. The rocks behind him are some of the entries to a huge rock mountain called Rock Face. It's pretty freaking steep on the harder entries. Normally you have to cross a stream to get there so your tires are wet and the rocks are wet from the last group to try it, but today was dry and was much easier. Pictures never do justice to the angles. This picture represents about a third of the overall height, it gets much higher to the left.
And then the view from the top. Well, maybe 2/3 up. The last third doesn't represent the challenge, so we didn't bother. On busy days that whole lower area is full of Rzr's and white claw watching people try to get up. Going down is even more dicey. Last year we saw a dude in a SxS roll back down and need to be care flighted out. Be smart out there people. It's a roll cage, not a force field.
There are some rivers/creeks that snake through the property that make for some fantastic trails when the water is up. They're fun even when it's low.
This is normally a waterfall that can be pretty tricky to get up. The rocks are weird on the other side so your work is only halfway done once you hit the apex. Again pictures don't do this justice, especially not without the water flowing.
was 68F when I left my house, so I dressed a little warmer than usual because I wanted to go doors-off. Thankfully had a tail wind so I didn't have to deal with an annoying cross wind through the cab. Ended up being a gorgeous morning/day. Then there was a wreck on the highway I use for the last 30 minutes, so Waze routed me on the backroads and with the sun at my back. Made for a really fun ride home, glad I left the doors there this time around.
Sorry for the pictures of the JKU, I was trailing him most of the day so you're seeing what I saw.
This was about midway on a pretty challenging trail called Onion Patch. We met up with a dad & kid on 4 wheelers....the kid was scared out of his mind, but he was literally caught between some rocks and a hard place.
Our buddy in the perpetually broke down Sami. The rocks behind him are some of the entries to a huge rock mountain called Rock Face. It's pretty freaking steep on the harder entries. Normally you have to cross a stream to get there so your tires are wet and the rocks are wet from the last group to try it, but today was dry and was much easier. Pictures never do justice to the angles. This picture represents about a third of the overall height, it gets much higher to the left.
And then the view from the top. Well, maybe 2/3 up. The last third doesn't represent the challenge, so we didn't bother. On busy days that whole lower area is full of Rzr's and white claw watching people try to get up. Going down is even more dicey. Last year we saw a dude in a SxS roll back down and need to be care flighted out. Be smart out there people. It's a roll cage, not a force field.
There are some rivers/creeks that snake through the property that make for some fantastic trails when the water is up. They're fun even when it's low.
This is normally a waterfall that can be pretty tricky to get up. The rocks are weird on the other side so your work is only halfway done once you hit the apex. Again pictures don't do this justice, especially not without the water flowing.
