smfulle
Active Member
- Location
- Plain City, UT
On Thanksgiving morning we took a little ride to Toquervill Falls near Toquerville/Hurricane Utah. The usual route into the falls from the highway is fairly tame, but the trail in from the backside is a little more challenging.
My brother lives in Toquerville and his backyard borders on LaVerkin Creek which is the creek that the falls are on so we started this ride out on the exclusive and private trailhead of my brother's backyard. It was kind of a motley crew that participated in this ride. My brother and his young son on a larger ATV, an nephew on a small 2wd ATV, a nephew on some sort of Yamaha motorcycle that was neither a dirt bike or a road bike, and me in my 48 Willys CJ2A, Grampa's Jeep, carrying another brother, his wife, and a niece.
After the backyard exit and crossing the creek we hooked up with a trail called Nephi's Twist. We used this trail to get around some private property along the creek before we dropped back down into the creek bottom and the push up to the falls.
I think I would call this trail more of a SxS trail than a jeep trail. Lots of bushes push in on the trail and the steam crossings are many times steep and rocky, and there are lots of them.
I took my mom across the creek later to get a picture of the Nephi's Twist sign that I forgot to snap during the actual ride.
Here's a little video of where we started out in the backyard. Notice the large table set up on the back patio in anticipation of our Thanksgiving feast upon our return.
[video=youtube_share;K0m05Q6-eM8]
This was a fun and challenging ride. I probably wouldn't take a large modern jeep on it, especially if it had shiny paint.
Here's the condensed video of the ride. Some of it is in 4X speed to get the watch time down.
[video=youtube_share;0FS4yyAmqUo]
My brother lives in Toquerville and his backyard borders on LaVerkin Creek which is the creek that the falls are on so we started this ride out on the exclusive and private trailhead of my brother's backyard. It was kind of a motley crew that participated in this ride. My brother and his young son on a larger ATV, an nephew on a small 2wd ATV, a nephew on some sort of Yamaha motorcycle that was neither a dirt bike or a road bike, and me in my 48 Willys CJ2A, Grampa's Jeep, carrying another brother, his wife, and a niece.
After the backyard exit and crossing the creek we hooked up with a trail called Nephi's Twist. We used this trail to get around some private property along the creek before we dropped back down into the creek bottom and the push up to the falls.
I think I would call this trail more of a SxS trail than a jeep trail. Lots of bushes push in on the trail and the steam crossings are many times steep and rocky, and there are lots of them.
I took my mom across the creek later to get a picture of the Nephi's Twist sign that I forgot to snap during the actual ride.
Here's a little video of where we started out in the backyard. Notice the large table set up on the back patio in anticipation of our Thanksgiving feast upon our return.
[video=youtube_share;K0m05Q6-eM8]
This was a fun and challenging ride. I probably wouldn't take a large modern jeep on it, especially if it had shiny paint.
Here's the condensed video of the ride. Some of it is in 4X speed to get the watch time down.
[video=youtube_share;0FS4yyAmqUo]
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