Alamo Road

Great time out in the desert! It was very wash-boarded up until the halfway point, highly recommend airing down for comfort. Weather was great and recent rains only had a little bit of an effect on the conditions, you could feel the trail get a little squelchy at points but never to any points where grip was lost. This is doable with a 2WD, however I'd say that if you don't have good clearance, go slow and be careful of rocks sticking up too high. I have 9.2 inches of clearance and the skid plate took 2-3 decent little hits (could have been avoided if I was paying.

A nice day trail for stock vehicles. the beginning is a little wash-boarded with some decent whoop de dos. once the road turns north it flattens out with the occasional rocky patches. drove all the way down to cabin springs rd junction. we did venture further up Alamo rd till we hit the 'poof dirt'. while it seemed pretty solid underneath. we opted to turn around as we were traveling solo. plan to make a future trip to explore cabin springs rd. there is a trail to the left that leads to another part of the dry lake bed that we ventured down. looks like it may have been an old military training road. the road looks like it goes straight across the lake bed.

My nephew flew into Vegas from Denver, Colorado and wanted to see the desert. I could not think of a better way to show him the desert than to take him offroading. One of the best ways to show him some great trails, different vegetation and some of the wildlife, was to take him on a tour of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge just north of Las Vegas. The weather was 10-15 degrees cooler and there was no one else on the trails. He had a great time, especially when I let him drive a portion of a trail. Alamo Road was open and in good condition. The weather was sunny with scattered clouds with a temperature in the mid 90's. It is a great, easily driven trail that lets you access other trails with nice secluded camping areas while sharing some great views of the surrounding desert. The visitor center can provide information about the wildlife and desert landscape.

This was a great day in the desert! I took a trip with the "Desert Wranglers" Jeep club out of Henderson from the visitor center for the Desert National Wildlife Refuge visitor center to the Parangat National Wildlife Refuge visitor center... about 80 miles, and we went up two of the side canyon roads... Dead Horse Road, and Cabin Springs Road which is well to the north of Sheep Pass. If you continue north of Sheep pass, be aware that the dry lake is perhaps the dustiest and deepest powder dirt I've driven through... well over 2 miles of really soft stuff. The road surface was rough, but not washboard. The speed limit is 25MPH according to the signs, but it's hard to maintain such a slow speed as many sections of the road are really pretty good and it's easy to let your speed creep up. Lot's of camping opportunities for those looking for a remote experience... room for RVs if you're adventurous.

Mimi and I decided to get out of town for the day and check on the status of a few trails. We have had a lot of rain lately and wanted to make sure the trails were not damaged or closed due to the weather. So, we headed for the Desert National Wildlife Refuge and hit the trails for a fun day exploring the area.

Revisited Alamo Road for a nice scenic drive on a beautiful sunny winter day in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada. A great trip to take some fantastic pictures of the desert landscape and vegetation, see some wildlife and get away from the city. It appears that some of the roads have been graded recently which made for a relaxing drive.