MOAB ON MY MIND

There are a great number of places in North America to go four-wheeling, but few have reached the somewhat iconic standing that the area around the town of Moab in Utah has achieved.

One guidebook Moab, UT, Backroads & 4-Wheel-Drive Trails by Charles A Wells, lists 80 different trails although that’s spread over more than 155 square kilometres (60 square miles). Some however are only just outside the town and include trails such as Fins & Things, Willow Springs Road, Tower Arch, Seven Mile Rim and Top of the World, all of which are achievable in just a few days.

While in the US, I was travelling with a fellow Auckland 4WD Club member, Andre Jorna, and we drove from Las Vegas NV to Moab UT via the Grand Canyon north rim with an overnight stop in the town of Kanab.

We arrived in Moab on a Saturday