Croton Road

Total Miles
25.0

Elevation

2,013.94 ft

Duration

Technical Rating

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall

Trail Overview

Croton Road is a rarely used gravel road that stretches twenty-five miles through the Grand Staircase Escalante. It connects Left Hand Collett to the Sit Down Bench and Little Valley roads along the Croton Bench above Lake Powell. Its biggest draw is those seeking evidence of the underground burning coal fires in the nearby Burning Hills. This road is rocky and is not regularly maintained. In wet weather, it would be easy to get stuck. This is a very remote area.

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Difficulty

bumpy and rocky but not difficult.

Technical Rating

Status Reports

Nice trail, ridden with SxS which handled it well. Like others mentioned, there is some rockfall in some areas that would make this challenging for a full sized vehicle.

Steep narrow road at times with 12-15 inch rocks to drive over on some steep grades. Very sharp switchbacks. Long vehicles would have a hard time. Give yourself three to four hours to drive this section of road/trail.

I was passing from hole in the rock road to Big Water. Probably should have taken Collet Canyon. This road was very slow going for a green trail, including one steep section with a dropoff that was a bit off-camber with 8-12" embedded rocks. I would not be comfortable doing this in a van or many stock AWD/4WD vehicles.

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