| Suicidal Tendencies
This trail is still undergoing work as of February 2013, but it's possible to get your bike onto it. And although it's not officially signed, it's legal to ride. You'll have to walk around a couple of switchbacks that aren't yet wide enough to roll downhill, and clamber up switchbacks that are too loose and steep to ride. This is not a "cruiser" trail. It's advanced technical and moderately strenuous. Suicidal Tendencies itself is a lollipop ride 5.5 miles in length. To get there, you need to ride Precipice (or the first part of Barrel Roll clockwise) and Sidewinder. It's 2.4 miles from the trailhead to the start of Suicidal Tendencies.. So the minimum ride, out and back, is 10.3 miles round trip. There will be 1450 vertical feet of climbing on the out-and-back ride. The ride's highlight is the widest view of any trail in the St. George area. |
| Riding notes, out-and-back using Precipice: 0.0 West from TH on combined trail N37 07.255 W113 40.513 Keep L to Precipice N37 07.257 W113 40.537 (R = Barrel Roll) 0.9 Keep L to Sidewinder N37 07.387 W113 41.153 (R = connect to Barrel Roll) 2.2 Straight (L) on Sidewinder loop N37 07.335 W113 41.786 2.4 L off cliff on Suicidal Tendencies N37 07.303 W113 41.894 | 2.8 Cross wash, climb next mesa 3.9 L to enter loop N37 07.094 W113 41.952 6.3 Back at start of loop, keep L 7.8 Sidewinder, go L to finish loop N37 07.303 W113 41.894 8.0 L to descend N37 07.335 W113 41.786 9.3 R to Precipice N37 07.387 W113 41.153 (Alternate: left onto Barrel Roll, 5 miles around loop to TH = 15 mi) 10.3 Back at TH |
 | 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 as it climbs
steeply south. 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 to a log-fence parking area at mile 1.5, N37 07.253 W113 40.508. There's a singletrack trail you can ride from the valley to the trailhead. After crossing the river and following the road as it turns right, pass the dirt Stucki Springs road. About 100 feet past the road, a doubletrack heads obliquely westward uphill on the left, turning quickly into singletrack heading up along the wash. at about 1/3 mile, keep R at the fork (L rejoins the road). The trail will climb up and west of the water tank, then join the road right at the fence of the preserve. |
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