Moab Easter Jeep Safari Trail Descriptions - 3-D Trail

3-D Trail tours Hidden Canyon and Brink Springs, north of Hwy. 313 and west of Hwy. 191. The trailhead is .14 miles north of Moab on Hwy. 191, near milemarker 141.

The Moab Area 3-D Trail is located at: Lat: 38° 44' 4.31" / Lon: 109° 47' 4.12"

This canyon country is unlike the Moab Valley with its sheer Wingate Sandstone rimmed cliffs. 3- D visits canyons that are a few hundred feet deep in the smooth, red-and-white layers of Entrada Sandstone, and the slickrock areas are made up of the white layer that caps the Entrada. Vistas are to the north toward the Book Cliffs.

Not far beyond Courthouse Rock is Airport View Hill where a few stock vehicles that still carry highway tirepressure may try to climb it more than once. Hidden Canyon bottom is very sandy but is usually not difficult. The slickrock fields of Lunar Canyon and upper Brink Canyon are interesting but not steep. The climb out of the upper canyon first encounters The Wall, which looks like a rock wall to the uninitiated but is usually climbed easily by stock vehicles. Just past The Wall is Mean Hill, which climbs about 200 feet in two steep sections with a gentler slope in between. The first steep section has an eroded, low-traction bypass that we would rather avoid because its use is destroying the main trail where they meet. The final climb on Mean Hill looks worse than it is because it is on a "hogback" with a drop-off either right or left, but the sight of it encourages everyone to make a good running start, and it has never given much trouble.