Mineral Fork.... ATV use

Alabama

Registered User
I have seen a lot of rigs with ATV up Big Cottonwood Canyon over the last couple of weeks. So is it legal to ride ATVs up Mineral Fork?

Any info would be great..

thanks
Steve
 

Brad

The artist formerly known as Redrock5.9
Location
Highland
Alabama said:
I have seen a lot of rigs with ATV up Big Cottonwood Canyon over the last couple of weeks. So is it legal to ride ATVs up Mineral Fork?

Any info would be great..

thanks
Steve

I'd be interested in knowing this too, always looking for new places to ride.
 

EZRhino

KalishnaKitty
Location
Sandy, UT
Yep, it sure is open. You'd better go do it right quick befor they close it. It is open to ATV's and momo's. It is on the FS travel map as an ATV route. According to a good friend (Clutch on here) who went up last year, there is some "squeeze" part where full size rigs wouldn't get through. I need to get up there and see for myself.

EZ
 

EZRhino

KalishnaKitty
Location
Sandy, UT
Big Cottonwood Canyon, between the S turn and the Cardiff Fork area (where the canyon makes the turn south and it opens up a bit.)

EZ
 

cruiseroutfit

Cruizah!
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Sandy, Ut
YES...

From my website (pilfered from EZ)

1) Mineral Fork: up until 1983, had a road very much passable by four
wheel drives. In fact there was a pair of old wooden bridges in one spot to
help 10 wheeled dump trucks negotiate the tight, steep switchbacks to access
the Wasatch Tunnel and Regulator mines at the top of the canyon. The
current road was built in 1936, but was actually the third generation road
(the second generation road was built prior to 1899). The bottom of the
present road was badly washed out in '83, taking the banks of earth and the
wood bridges along with it. Apparently the Forest Service never bothered
repairing it (big surprise). Due to the washout and lack of maintenance,
the canyon is open today to ATV's only. I find it wholly ludicrous that the
greatest numbers of registered ATV's in the state is found in Salt Lake
County, yet Mineral Fork is the ONLY legal trail in the ENTIRE COUNTY where
one can drive an ATV. I find this both astonishing and disheartening at the
same time. How can the county expect users to "follow the rules" and "stay
off the foothills", etc., when they only provide 2.1 miles of legal trails
to ride on??
 

cruiseroutfit

Cruizah!
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Sandy, Ut
Just wanted to complete the thread...

Yes, Mineral Fork is open to ATV's (closed to Jeeps)

Get up there and check it out, it is a great area, and one of the ONLY legal OHV trails in SL County. :D
 
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