Dripping Springs Quartzsite 2.5

A very interesting Jeep trail.  Perhaps on the high side of a 2.5 rating.  There are a few small boulders and loose hills.  The canyon leading to and away from the spring is quite narrow and twisty.  Be careful of oncoming traffic.

We ran the trail in a counter clockwise direction, getting the more mundane portion out of the way first.  There is a spur off the main trail that dead ends at a big parking area for the spring.

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

Dripping Springs Canyon

Dripping Springs is a small spring fed pool inside a cave.  Drive within a couple hundred feet of it and follow a well used path up the wash.  Stoop just a bit and you can enter the cave.  Smells a bit like bat guano, but we did not see any evidence of it.

Dripping Springs cave

Dripping Spring

After visiting the spring, follow another trail along the hill and view quite a few petroglyphs on boulders.

On the north loop of the Jeep trail you will pass an abandoned stone house.  Nice view of Quartzsite through the window.

Petroglyphs

Abandoned house

Updated 2014.

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