Die Trying DCRC 8

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.
This trail starts with quite a few large boulders, ledges and notches.  After a few hundred yards the trail smooths out to smaller boulders and ledges and some tight turns around some large rocks. Near the end the trail takes a hard left turn to a long, steep, rough climb out of the canyon. There is a split at the end; to the right is the original exit or to the left is a new exit which can be much more difficult. At the top follow a two-track about 1.5 miles to return to Rim Road.

There is a GPS - gpx track file at the bottom of the page.
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Die Trying
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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