Date: October 9, 2008

On Thursday I decided to go on another official trail ride which was lead by Alex. He likes to lead a new trail every year that he has never run before, and this year he chose to check out Dome Plateau. Lucky for me, this was also an area that I wanted to explore, so I volunteered to tailgun for him as well. He did his homework on the area, and we only missed one turn the whole day, but he quickly realized it and got us turned around right away.

This trail starts out just passed the Dewey Bridge across the Colorado River, which means it's about 30 miles from Moab and another 30 miles back. Plus the route we followed was around 36 miles long, so it turned out to be a long day on the trail. We actually ended up making it back to town just in time for the Show and Shine at Swanny City Park I really enjoyed exploring this area, and there are a number of other roads in the area that I want to get back an explore.

We stopped by the Dewey Bridge to regroup before hitting the trail


Starting down the trail




After following some lesser travelled roads, we made our way to a nice overlook above Professor Valley where we also stopped for some lunch.


After lunch we made our way to check out La Boca Arch


From the back


After the arch, we headed over to Cave Springs

 

On our way back to the highway, we passed an old mine and a few cabins

Stopped at the cabins






After checking out the cabins, we headed back to the highway. On the way back to town, Alex and I stopped to explore the cave house located above Highway 128.

Alex walking up the stairs in the cave house


View from the inside


Outside the cave house


All in all, it was another great day of exploring some new terrain.

The full gallery can be found here:

Dome Plateau

 

Great post Randy, thanks for sharing!!

 

thats beautiful,

 

X2......

 

Beautiful land out there! Wish we had something like that close to Houston. Closest thing would be the Hill Country about four hours away!

 

What's the story of the Cave house. That intrigues me.. It doesnt appear to be that old with the cinder blocks... but it does appear to be used, though maybe not lived in. Appears to be a rock statue of a man outside. Do you have any more info on this?

 

that looks sweet out there!

 

That looks fun and man that was an amazing place for an off-road trip...
Love it!

 

Another great report IntrepidXJ! There are some sweet pics in there. I was up at Dome about 3 weeks ago... its a really cool area. Yeah you really have to, there are so many roads in there its very easy to get lost. When we went we got lost and ended up only doing half the trial but had a great time anyway. I was just browsing around the trail reports section and man you have a lot of reports from all over the Eastern Utah area. Awesome gob really getting around!

 

Pics were great looks like you had lots of fun...

 

Thanks We will have to meet up sometime and run some trails