Peek-A-Boo Slot Canyon Loop

Total Miles
7.6

Elevation

1,816.83 ft

Duration

1.5 Hours

Technical Rating

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Fall

Trail Overview

The loop adds significant distance in the deep sand and a relatively steep decent into the wash to get to the slot canyon. If you stay to the southern end and go directly into the wash, the route is accessible by most 4x4s with tires suitable for traversing extremely deep, powdery and loose sand. Most vehicles will be required to air down their tires to traverse the area. The reward is one of the most beautiful slot canyons you have ever seen. Plan on exploring the canyon walls and the wonders of erosion. Also, see if you can find the steps to the native grainary. Hint, they start about six feet above the floor and are shallow because of erosion since they were cut.

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Difficulty

Deep sand makes this trail challenging. This trail should not be taken by an any street vehicles that do not have tires that can be aired down or are designed to traverse the deep sand. The entire trail is deep sand other than short areas with some gravel/sand. Do not take this trail during, or shortly after, any wet period. You will be traveling in a slot canyon/wash. Flash floods can occur without warning from thunderstorms miles away.

Technical Rating

Status Reports

This is not an ATV trail. Did it with a stock 4WD Jeep Gladiator, it went fine. You have to start from the south road, I guess the northern loop is not suitable to anything other than ATV. Make sure to keep your speed in deep sands and you’ll be just fine! Don’t try with an AWD or 2WD, you need 4WD to move in the sand. Once at the wash when it turns left the trail become rocky and you follow the wash up to the slot canyon. Really worth it, so beautiful! The entire loop is not feasible without an ATV though, you’ll come in front of a really steep deep sand hill that your truck won’t be able to climb. I came back the same way.

The trail sign states that high clearance 4x4 vehicles are allowed. We took our stock F350 SRW and saw another almost identical truck, Jeep, and even a Subaru Crosstrek. Most people had UTVs. We headed east from the parking lot to the slot canyon and returned the same way. I don’t know how the western is. The return trip was uphill which made it harder. There was only one stretch of deep sand on the way back, not too far from the lot, where i was sweating. Otherwise, a few sections are narrow with branches and some of the sandy areas have some rough washboard. The sand was deep and loose in some sections. The high clearance is so you don’t bulldoze sand in those sections. The rocky areas wouldn’t be a problem.

This is not just an ATV trail. There were several Jeeps, Defenders, Lexus GX’s, etc. The north section of the loop is somewhat difficult and is the likely place to cause you to get stuck according to several people who took that route (including one who did get stuck). The southern section going out and back is much more manageable and is just multiple areas of soft sand, going uphill to exit the trail. I managed just fine in my stock 2024 Jeep Wrangler.

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