Grapevine Canyon Road

Grapevine Canyon Road provides a perfect opportunity to enjoy an easy offroad trail, experience incredible views, and enjoy convenient mountain camping, all while escaping the desert heat. Beginning in a sandy wash of the Lucerne Valley desert floor, Grapevine Valley Road winds 3000 feet up the north face of White Mountain to cooler temperatures and spectacular 180-degree views of the Lucerne Valley and onto the distant Granite and Fry Mountains. Also, the surrounding terrain during the climb offers a unique landscape dotted with fascinating massive granite boulder formations called inselbergs. At about the eight-mile mark is the border of the San Bernardino National Forest, where several marked Forest Service trails and dispersed camping can be found.

This is an easy trail, wide and flat, with a reasonable grade and generally with room for two vehicles to pass each other. A two-wheel drive vehicle with some clearance would handle this road, but once reaching the National Forest, many of the connecting trails will require a high clearance 4x4.

Several dispersed campsites are located by the road, with the best sites next to granite boulder formations that border the road. Near the trail's northern end is an unmarked spur leading to the base of a stunning granite boulder formation and a great dispersed campsite. The spur continues and once connected to Grapevine Canyon, but has been destroyed by weather and is now impassable. 

The Horse Springs Spur, just one mile from the southern end of the Grapevine Valley Road, leads to the eleven-site Horse Springs Campground and offers a secluded escape surrounded by a high desert environment in a cluster of juniper and pine trees that offers sweeping mountain views in all directions, tree-shaded campsites, picnic benches, fire rings, and pit toilets, a group ramada and picnic area. Campfires are prohibited in the National Forest.