Lockhart Basin Road connects Canyonlands National Park to Moab and is a designated alternate expert section of the Utah Backcountry Discovery Route. This road was no joke. Lockhart Basin Road was my introduction to rock crawling. I thought that I had rock crawled in my Jeep before, but I was greatly mistaken. It is an amazing route, as you might imagine, since it runs along Canyonlands. It begins in Canylands as a nice, wide, graveled road that gradually becomes narrower as you wind your way up into the rocky canyons of Bears Ears National Monument. Towering red cliffs on the right, vast expanses of picturesque Canyonlands on the horizon, to the left. At some point, and it sneaks up on you quickly, the road turns into a series of boulder-strewn, narrow passages, that will make you wonder what you have gotten yourself into.
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