 | Zephyr Trail -- The Tour
The Zephyr Trail offers a dirt-and-rock connection between the Brand Trails and the Klonzo system. The ride will take you from the Brand Trails to the top of Klonzo and back, hitting some of the more interesting stuff along the way. It's 25 miles, but it's not as much work as it sounds. Your climbing will total only 2300 vertical feet. I did this ride in less than 4 hours, and I was stopping to take pictures. Goodies will include the new Houdini and Zoltar slickrock, the radical Gravitron one-way trail, a side trip on VertiGo, the combined one-way Redhot and Roller Coaster trails, and North 40 on the way back. |
| Sample ride: Brand to Gravitron w
goodies, 25 miles 0.0 East from Brand parking N38 39.113 W109 40.103 0.1 Keep straight (L = N40, R = Lazy-EZ) N38 39.207 W109 39.999 0.6 Fork L on Bar M N38 39.480 W109 39.713 0.8 Straight on Bar M (L=to N40, R=Circle O) N38 39.645 W109 39.863 1.6 R to cliff-side singletrack N38 39.953 W109 40.480 2.0 R on Zephyr, cross wash to DT N38 40.158 W109 40.813 3.6 Park border, through gate 5.2 Park border gate, cross wash 150 ft up wash, exit on ST to R N38 41.237 W109 39.233 5.9 R to join DT 5.95 L on ST N38 41.649 W109 38.860 Keep R on Midway N38 41.668 W109 38.866 6.0 R across wash, then R toward Carousel N38 41.695 W109 38.867 6.1 L on Carousel N38 41.721 W109 38.791 6.2 Keep R on Carousel N38 41.764 W109 38.748 (Dino tracks on L) 6.4 Parking, L on white-slash 4x4 N38 41.823 W109 38.639 6.6 R on Houdini N38 41.966 W109 38.483 8.3 Straight across road to Zoltar N38 42.076 W109 38.239 | 9.0 R uphill on Borderline N38 42.524 W109 38.554 9.3 R to stay on Borderline N38 42.758 W109 38.489 9.7 R on Wahoo N38 43.065 W109 38.422 10.0 R on Gravitron N38 43.168 W109 38.371 12.0 L on VertiGo N38 42.768 W109 39.124 (option: skip out-and-back, lose 1 mile) 12.5 Cross Canyon, turn back N38 42.816 W109 38.781 13.0 Keep L (previous Gravitron fork) 13.6 R on Secret Passage N38 42.621 W109 38.961 13.9 L on Cross Canyon N38 42.511 W109 38.761 14.1 Cross to Zoltar N38 42.524 W109 38.554 14.8 R to Redhot (white/red slashes) N38 42.076 W109 38.239 200 ft, to Redhot ST 15.1 Houdini joins, then keep L on Redhot N38 41.967 W109 38.542 15.4 5-way, cross to Roller Coaster N38 41.917 W109 38.747 16.0 Join Midway N38 41.691 W109 38.875 16.1 Fork L on Zephyr N38 41.670 W109 38.867 20.0 L on Bar M N38 40.156 W109 40.811 21.2 R toward North 40 N38 39.647 W109 39.863 21.3 Keep R, then R again on North 40 N38 39.570 W109 39.982 24.8 Keep R N38 39.270 W109 40.016 24.9 R downhill N38 39.199 W109 39.995 25.0 Back at parking |
 | Getting there via Brand Trails parking:
Take Highway
191 to the Bar M turnoff, 7 miles north from the Colorado River. It's
opposite the Gemini Bridges Road, on the east side of the highway (away
from the cliffs). Turn onto the gravel road and immediately go right.
Drive past the first parking lot. (This is restaurant parking or fee
parking.) As you approach the fence and kiosk at the paved trail, turn
left and drive downhill 1/4 mile to the gravel parking lot in the bottom
of the valley.
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