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| Crater Meadow |
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| Jackson Peak and Square Top Mountain are hard to get at. |
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| Enterprise Lake and Flat Top |
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| Lost Cave is more like a garage. |
There is not much hiking potential in this range, but a lot of packed dirt roads make for good bike and OHV rides. Pick up a free Dixie forest map at a visitor center before your trip. Enterprise is a good looking town with a supermarket and Family Dollar. The best camping is at Enterprise Lake with one pay campground and several free sites. The best free sites are on the south shore in the pines with a restroom. Cars might have trouble crossing a creek to get there, but it was dry in June. The Pine Creek Trail departs from that camp area but it hits a wall of brush in a mile. You could ride a bike half way. To get to the lake, go west out of town on the main street and follow signs for 10 miles on paved roads. Posted 2017.
- LOST PEAK el 7516 is the high point of the range. It's a dull peak but the view is outstanding. From the main campground at Enterprise Lake, go SW on FR 003 for 2.3 miles to a fork reading N37 29681, W113 52808. Go left on FR 274 for 3.3 miles to a tiny stream at Lost Spring el 6700. Walk along the right side of the stream on cow trails that drop into the creekbed at 28202, 54199. Go up the creekbed then take a fork at 28327, 54237 el 6900 and follow along that to get on the main ridge el 7000. Next, go up to a game trail at 28484, 54468 el 7300 that skirts a bump then it's a fifth mile to the reg and Hawkins BM. 90 minutes, 800 gain, some light brush. For a loop drive back, stay on FR 274 for 2 more miles then go left on FR 004. That road goes 8 miles down Moody Wash then Burnt Canyon and on past The Pinnacles to graded FR 006. Then go left for 5 and a half miles back to the lake. All roads are easy 4wd on packed dirt. Posted June, 2017.
- ENTERPRISE TO VEYO BIKE RIDE - this is a good 27 mile ride for parties coming up from St. George with 2 cars. First, drive to Veyo then go west on Center Street for 2 and a half miles to the river and leave a car there reading N37 20128, W113 43191 el 4000. Then take highway 18 to Enterprise el 5300 and ride west out of town on the main street for 10 miles to Enterprise Lake where pavement ends el 5715. Keep going on FR 006 shown as the Veyo Shoal Creek Rd on the topo. It's the only maintained road to follow south. The road will top out on a divide el 6156 about 7 miles past the lake. Then it's almost entirely downhill for 10 miles to the second car at the river. The last water on the ride is the stream in Cove Wash south of the divide, in June. 2 miles of this will be strenuous uphill. Posted 2017.
- LOST CAVE BIKE RIDE - a 7 mile loop can be done from Enterprise Lake, mostly on packed dirt. From the main campground el 5750, go SW on FR 003 for a mile and a half to an OHV trail on the left. Follow that to the cave at N37 29481, W113 51767 el 5850. Then stay on the trail past the cave for a mile and a half to graded FR 006 at Grassy Flat. Coast back on that. This is all on the topo. Posted 2017.
- FLAT TOP and PILOT PEAK are south of Enterprise. Go south out of town on Wolf Pack Drive to end of pavement then stay right on main roads and they will lead you up to the south rim of Flat Top at a tower. It's steep 4wd near the top but not eroded. Turn back at the tower because the rest of the roads are for OHVs and plenty rocky . Pilot Peak is right along the road and routes are obvious. I used 4wd FR 352 at N37 31061, W113 45893 to get to the south side of Pilot. It's decent for a mile then goes to hell. Crater Meadow is what I call a meadow in a depression or shallow crater a half mile south of Pilot. I found a passage thru brush at 30039, 46771 el 6200 to get over the rim then down to the meadow. I walked south out of it on rocky trails then circled back. Pilot and the meadow took me 2 hours, easy. Some light brush. Posted 2017.
- BIG MOUNTAIN el 7229 has a decent road to the top. Turn off highway 18 at mp 36.1 then go 3 miles to the top. 2wd trucks might make it. And tough mtn bikers. The road gains 400 feet per mLile. How tough are you? Posted 2017.
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| Hawk nest at the lake |
