Quartzite Canyon

Quartzite Canyon Road serves as the rugged middle stretch between Spring Mountain Road and Weda’s Naokwaide, forming part of the only motorized vehicle route that fully crosses the Lemhi Range. It’s the roughest leg of the journey, and it lets you know it right away.

The trail is a steep, narrow shelf road carved into a ridge, where soccer-to basketball-sized loose and embedded rocks demand careful tire placement and the use of 4LO. This trail is a slow crawl, best suited for a high clearance vehicle, but one well worth the effort. As you climb, sweeping views open to dense forests, high mountain meadows, and distant silhouettes of Spring Mountain and Big Windy Peak stretch across the horizon.

The terrain may be rough, but it’s packed with beauty. Along the way, there is a solid dispersed campsite marked by a stone fire ring, with a few side turnoffs that looked like they could easily hide secluded gems of their own. If you're up for a bit of a challenge and want to see the Lemhi’s at their raw and wild best, this is the trail that delivers.