 | Cove Wash Trail -
Cottonwood Wash Viewpoint, connections to Stucki Spring Cove Wash is an ATV route to a viewpoint over Cottonwood Wash. The route here is 10 miles, but you can add a lot of miles by riding directly from St.George or by doing a loop with the ATV trails in (and on the ridgeline between) the two forks of the wash. The trail is entirely dirt road or ATV doubletrack. For the classic ride, you'll spend 3 miles in the wash bottom, then climb up to a viewpoint for 8 miles out-and-back. The grade is steady, and there's nothing technical here. Total climbing is only 600 vertical feet. It makes a good training ride. |
| Riding notes, Cove Wash Loop: 0.0 Out of parking fence, south on DT N37 07.244 W113 40.479 0.1 Veer R and drop into wash 0.2 Keep R and uphill N37 07.212 W113 40.651 1.6 Stay in bottom of wash (ignore DT) 2.6 Fork L as wash splits (option, R for big loop) N37 06.494 W113 42.253 3.6 Take DT forking L out of wash N37 06.181 W113 43.007 (option, continue 1.5 miles up wash, return loop via ridgeline or washbottom) 3.8 Hard L through wash (option, straight) N37 06.107 W113 43.162 4.1 At viewpoint N37 05.919 W113 43.263 For out-and-back, retrace route | For
loop, L on DT 4.7 Fork R (southwest) N37 05.840 W113 42.703 4.9 Keep straight N37 05.667 W113 42.566 5.2 Turn L (northeast) N37 05.522 W113 42.416 5.9 Enter wash, continue downhill N37 05.761 W113 41.747 7.3 Pass Stucki Spring N37 05.981 W113 40.626 (keep heading northwest) 8.8 Through Cove Wash (option, descend wash) 9.0 Fork L on DT N37 07.119 W113 39.808 9.7 L toward TH 10 Back at parking |
 | Getting there:
In St. George, head north on Bluff
Street and turn left on Sunset Blvd. Drive 3 miles west on Sunset through
Santa Clara. As you're reaching the end of Santa Clara, look for a road
crossing the river on your left. It's about 200 feet before the Jacob
Hamblin Home (which will be on your right if you pass the turn). Turn
and
cross the river and follow the road as it turns right. About 0.4 miles
from Hwy 191, turn left onto the dirt Stucki Springs road. At mile 0.7,
turn right at the sign "Santa Clara Preserve" or "Cove Wash
Trailhead." Pass the water
tank, and at mile 1.3, turn right again through the fence. This road will
veer left, then arrive at a log fenced parking area at mile 1.5, N37 07.253
W113 40.508.
Dirt route from Green Valley, 5 miles (plus city streets) each way: Up DH section of GV racecourse (1.8 miles). Step across the fence and go down into the dip facing northwest. Drop down very-steep DT into the next valley, proceed west then northwest (1.3 miles). R on Stucki Springs Rd, go another 1.8 miles then left at fork (don't descend into big wash). Pass DT going up to fence on your L about 0.1 mile later, then keep R at the next fork 100 yards later, then L at next fork. Drop into wash and start head uphill in the wash. |
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