Back Road To Crown King 3.0

This is one of those "famous" Jeep trails that everyone going to the area has to do.  In reality it is just a so-so trail.  The graded dirt roads north and east of Crown King are much more scenic.

The trail starts in the open desert near Pleasant Lake, rises through pinyon-juniper forest and ends in Ponderosa pine around Crown King.

There is a GPS - gpx track at the bottom of the page.
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Upper part. Close to Crown King.
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Lower part. Pleasant Lake in background.
We understand that the difficulty varies year to year, depending on weather and maintenance.  In spring of 2013 we found the only somewhat challenging section to be the first long climb up out of the valley.  Most of the trail was 2.0 - 2.5.
Updated 2013
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