Death Row DCRC 10+

Take your off-road experience to the extreme!  This is one of  seven rock crawling trails located just a few miles west of Montrose, Colorado, in the Dry Creek Rock Crawling (DCRC) area of the Uncompahgre Plateau.  Vehicles using these "Full Sized Trails" are required to display an Off Highway Vehicle Pass.  See StayTheTrail.org.
The entrance is a right turn off of Topless, about a half mile in. The first hundred yards are small ledges and boulders that do not live up to the rating. Then the real trail starts - boulders the size of cars and holes that will swallow one. The trail is very tight and does not offer many options for lines. There is one obstacle after another for about 200 yards while gaining elevation at a rapid rate.  Then the trail levels off for a few hundred yards before a small ledge at the exit joins a two-track that will return you to Rim Road in about 1½ miles.

There is a GPS - gpx track file at the bottom of the page.
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Death Row
These rock crawling trails are beyond our capability so we have not recorded tracks for any of the actual trails - only for the roads that access them.  The track at the end of this page was taken from Google Earth.  It should be very close.

I walked a short distance into each trail to get a photo of one obstacle to include on this website.  The obstacle pictured may or may not be the hardest, but it is the closest.

All descriptions and ratings are from a Montrose website.​  ​All trails are rated on a 10 point scale and were rated by whoever set up the area, not by JeepTheUSA.

​​This trail is accessed by Rim Road 2.5.
Page updated 2017.
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