Ten Easy Off-Road Trails in Reno, Nevada
0:00 Intro
0:26 Guidebooks and Maps
1:00 Peavine Peak Road
2:05 Dog Valley Road
3:26 Sunrise Pass Road
4:31 Toll Road
5:44 Virginia Peak Off-Road
6:50 Lousetown Road
8:14 Jumbo Grade Road
9:33 Ophir Grade Road
10:51 Rock Peak Off-Road
12:09 Hunter Lake Road
13:49 Conclusion
Reno is an amazing place to live if you love exploring dirt roads that provide access to public lands with amazing backcountry recreation, views and solitude. Here are ten easy off-road trails close to Reno, NV.
These trails are all well-traveled and easy to find, but if you want a little extra info, there are links below to writeups on allterrainfam.com and video guides on the All-Terrain Family KZread Channel. For more info check out these books:
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It’s also handy to have something like Gaia GPS (www.gaiagps.com) or On X Off Road (www.onxmaps.com) on your phone or tablet.
Alright, let’s hit the trail.
1 Peavine Peak
You see it every day, but did you know it’s super easy to get to the top? Peavine is probably the easiest dirt road you can do in the Reno area that actually goes somewhere. It’s rough but not particularly steep. It’s wide, with plenty of room to pass or turn around.
2 Sunrise Pass
Sunrise Pass road is the second easiest trail in this list and traverses the Pine Nut mountain range from Carson Valley to Smith Valley. Sunrise Pass road can be done as an out-and-back of any length or as part of a scenic loop around the Pine Nuts encompassing Smith Valley and Topaz Lake.
3 Dog Valley Road
Dog Valley Road and Hennessy Pass Road connect Verdi with the North Valleys around the West side of Peavine Peak. The main attraction of this trail is the Verdi Peak Crystal Mine. This is a spot that was a source of Quartz Crystals used in radios during World War 2. Just about any SUV can make this trip, from Subarus and AWD minivans to 4Runners or Suburbans, though this is a bit rougher at the start as you climb out of Verdi.
4 Toll Road
Toll Road is in my backyard. Most of the videos on this channel were shot in some part there on Toll Road. This is a Historic route from Reno to Virginia City and is maintained by volunteers and enthusiasts and, at the very bottom and top, by landowners who have houses there.
5 Virginia Peak
Virginia Peak is the high point of the Pan Rah range, which is the northern extension of the Virginia Range north of the Truckee River corridor. This is another easy dirt road with options to make it a little harder and more adventurous here and there. There are radio towers at the top here, as well as stunning views back towards Spanish Springs, Reno, and the Sierra Nevadas. The real treat is the views East down to Pyramid Lake, and Central Nevada on a clear day.
6 Lousetown Road
Lousetown Road is another historic road that provides access to some remote areas of the Virginia Range. This road is the hardest so far and might require a more capable vehicle than average or a high sense of adventure or offroad driving skill. Some attractions on this trail are the many Virginia Range Mustangs you’re sure to see, mining ruins, and the Lagomarsino petroglyphs.
07 Jumbo Grade
Jumbo Grade Road is a special trail for us because it’s the first off-road trip we made as a family in our old 4Runner and the first video we made for this channel. At the time, we thought it was pretty extreme in our stock SUV, but it seems pretty tame to us now.
08 Ophir Grade Road
Ophir Grade Road is a harder variation of Jumbo Grade Road and starts from the intersection of Carson Reno Highway and East Lake BLVD. This road is rougher and has more rock obstacles than Jumbo, but it’s more fun and less traveled.
09 Rocky Peak
Rocky Peak is a tough, rocky, steep 4x4 track that heads up a remote part of the Virginia Range to a spot where you can hike the cool, craggy, and aptly named Rocky Peak. This one will be a challenge in a stock 4x4, but I believe it could be done if you know what you’re doing.
Prison Hill
Prison Hill is an off-road recreation area in Carson City. This has everything from easy dirt roads to extreme rock crawling and ATV trails. The basic trail here is short, but gets you up high for great views of the Carson Valley and Sierra Nevada range.
Hunter Lake Road
Hunter Lake Road is the hardest trail I’ve featured here and if we’re being precise, the only one that starts actually in Reno. This one can be done in a stock SUV, but it’s longer and more consistently challenging than the others featured here. It can be done as a LONG loop that will take most of the day or a shorter half-day out and back.
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Absolutely beautiful drone shots. Thanks for posting
Great video! Another couple of good ones are: -Damonte ranch foothills to i80, or to Virginia City Highlands if you go south instead near the dry lake bed -county road 49 is a nice short one to the top of steamboat hills (great views) -Goni rd to Virginia City
Great vid man. Super easy trails, but super cool to see something different in the area we normally run some extremely difficult Trails !
I'm really glad to see someone that isn't gatekeeping rad trails like this.
@dixonbuttes6564
24 күн бұрын
These places are open to all and have been in plain sight on maps for generations now. “Gatekeeping” is a politically volatile misnomer about not posting locations online. Public lands don’t have the infrastructure to handle mass numbers of people, and every post online about these places is an advertisement that drive mass numbers of people to a place. You appear to think it’s virtuous to broadcast locations like this, but gatekeeping is a colonist’s word intended to help leverage shame against those who understand the dynamics in these non-infrastructured places. Those who aren’t gatekeeping are driving mass closures and the development of infrastructure in these places, which fundamentally ruins their character and leads people in who haven’t bothered to develop the skills to find the place on their own. The time invested in the skills to explore and find places on one’s own fundamentally lends to developing true appreciation, skills, and ethics about traveling in these spaces with care, whereas copying what you saw online does not. So, I see you think it’s awesome to not gatekeep a place like this, but what would be more awesome would be for you to acknowledge the fact that your falsely virtuous perspective is founded in a colonial mindset and the fact that online advertisements about places like this are fueling the most rapid closures and development of the West in our entire history. Only colonists advertise off-grid locations online with other colonists 🫵. Rooted and acculturated people don’t need social media advertisements telling them where to go and to help them shop locations by what they’ve already seen online. Thanks to people like you 🫵, all of these places are being urbanized as novel parks and turned into museums. The West is fleeting. 👊
Good Stuff. no shortage of offload trails in the Reno Area.
Hey Mike! I wanted to pop in real quick and say THANK YOU for posting these great videos of the local area! Partly thanks to your channel, we felt confident in making an acreage purchase when the opportunity came up. Our new backyard made a 5-second cameo in one of your videos even! We look forward to wheeling the local area, and would be happy to synch up one of these days for a trail ride! Keep up the great channel, and we'll cya where the pavement ends!
@AllTerrainFamily
4 ай бұрын
Awesome!
Great info on trail conditions and how to get to them! Great job!
Great video. Like showing the maps plus it would be helpful if you could also add GPS Coordinates.
This is a great video, super informative and awesome shots! I have a stock 4Runner Limited and want to try some of the easier trails. Thanks for this!
Hunter lake definitely is a beast. Took my Ram Rebel up there and it can be a challenge in a full size truck on parts of the trail that get really narrow. Got plenty of pinstriping from the vegetation about halfway up.
Thanks for doing this. I’m new to this and learning still. I went up Virginia Peak for the first time and it was very fun! Some trail damage, but worth it.
GREAT!!! Video and thank you, live in Fernley and dont know much around our areas.....
Awesome video I’ve done some of these just never new the names!!!! Thanks
Good timing. I’ll be moving to Fallon this summer. I’ve done a few of those, but it was long age.
@AllTerrainFamily
7 ай бұрын
Lots of good trails out of Fallon too!
Nice I’ll be taking my atv to some of this trails!! Thanks
Steve's Loop, Jeep Eater Hill west side Peavine and Bud Canyon.
Great list! I've done most, but not all. Like the book mentions as well.
@AllTerrainFamily
7 ай бұрын
Which ones haven't you done yet?
@jeepinwithjulia
7 ай бұрын
@@AllTerrainFamily Sunrise Pass (although I have done Brunswick Canyon), Ophir Grade and Rocky Peak.
I will say Toll Rd can be choppy in the winter and have snow. Did it a month ago
@AllTerrainFamily
3 ай бұрын
It’s choppy in the extreme.
What about kings canyon? Should make a video about harder trails
@AllTerrainFamily
7 ай бұрын
Not a bad idea…
Are there any offshoots on these trails where you can go shooting?
@AllTerrainFamily
6 ай бұрын
Yes. Check county regs and please be safe and clean up after yourself.
@user-dh3vy8wm7e
6 ай бұрын
@@AllTerrainFamily Absolutely. I always keep my brass anyways cause I reload my own ammo
Can you target shoot on any of these trails?
@AllTerrainFamily
10 күн бұрын
Check the county laws.
Please some Tahoe trail or camping spots! Thanks for this. I will try all of them wish me luck lolol.... Great video!
@AllTerrainFamily
4 ай бұрын
There’s no dispersed camping in the Tahoe Basin.
Good Stuff. no shortage of offload trails in the Reno Area.