Pyeatt Draw

Official Crew

3900

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 05/27/2023

Difficulty Accuracy: Harder

Did this trail with a group of 9 Jeeps. Once you get past waypoint 6 it is very overgrown; it appears most exit the trail at waypoint 6. I drove right up to the final obstacle, the filter, but did not attempt it in my vehicle. The trail overall is very rocky but a lot of fun with lots of different paths that can be tried. Interestingly, those of us with the longer Gladiator wheelbase appeared to handle the obstacles on the trail esiser than the 4 and 2 door Wranglers. There were some smaller pools of water as we got closer to the end, they were muddy and unclear so it was tough to see how deep they were. We went around one but eased our way through the rest of them without issue. I do think that this is more of a 5 mandatory due to a waterfall that needs to be climbed at waypoint 7.

Ben Benavides

100

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 05/07/2023

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Ran this past weekend with a small group and had a blast. Nice getaway from the heat in the Phoenix area. There was a bit of running water, but not enough to make it much more challenging. The "Filter" at the end of the trail seems more challenging than ever.

Tom

15100

Open

Rated 4/5

Visited: 07/04/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

This trail was much easier than I expected, but then I went with a group of experienced Jeepers who have run this trail a number of times. Lines are always important ... especially if you are running a Jeep with 35" tires with a 2.5" lift. The importance of lines on this trail became apparent when one of the Jeeps with 37" tires and a 3.5" lift couldn't get over an obstacle. Had him move the front tires about three inches to the left and up and over he went. Obviously we skipped the filter. But, it wasn't a total loss ... a group of 5 or 6 heavily modified Jeeps showed up to attempt the filter. We watched them for an hour. No one went up the middle (not through lack of trying) and only one made it up via the ledge ... no winching ... although he did leave a lot of rubber behind. The picture is of the visitor who made it ... to heavy applause of the crowd.

David Alvarado

800

Open

Visited: 05/16/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Did this trail today. It’s awesome. Lots of fun obstacles. Got hung up on 1 and had to winch up slightly to get my tires to grab the shelf rock. Avoided the filter at the end since it was my wife and I. We weren’t brave enough. All and all a fun trail that will definitely build upon your rock crawling skills.

Tina Graves

200

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 05/07/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Fun and challenging trail in spots. Follows the draw to the large waterfall and “filter” obstacle. Was completely dry, but temps were perfect. Mostly boulders, but as you get further up it changes to rock shelves with a few sketchy off-camber areas. Determine your approach carefully. We all got hung up on an obstacle (three JKU’s) about half way through the trail. No one was brave enough to attempt the “filter”this day.

Bobby Nelson

Official Crew

74350

Open

Visited: 07/07/2021

Arizona National Forests and State Lands are back open for travel. There are still some very important fire restrictions in place. These restrictions can often change by specific areas.

Bobby Nelson

Official Crew

74350

Temporary Closure

Visited: 06/25/2021

Tonto National Forest officials will close the state’s largest national forest due to ongoing extreme fire danger beginning at 8 a.m. on Friday, June 25. The forest is implementing this forest closure as a precaution to protect the health and safety of the public, employees and firefighters by reducing the risk of human-caused fires. No one is allowed in the closure area, including Forest Service personnel, unless they are responding to a wildfire or other emergency or patrolling to ensure enforcement of the closure. The order shall remain in effect until July 31, 2021 or until rescinded, whichever occurs first. Residents or businesses using roads in the restricted area to the extent necessary to access their private property are exempt.

Chad Chaney

5050

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 08/17/2019

Our group tackled Pyeatt Draw yesterday. The trail is just as a I remember it from this time last year except in places there was debris on the trail presumably from water carrying it down the wash. As expected the last obstacle was a busy place with at least 10 vehicles parked below the last obstacle, their drivers deciding whether they have the gumption to tackle it. The weather was nice with an occasional breeze but shade was welcome. There was some water standing on the trail in spots from recent rains. We did get a rather late start on the trail however. We had to change a shredded serpentine belt on my Jeep Jk and had to replace a tire right after starting the trail on a Jeep XJ.

Chad Chaney

5050

Open

Visited: 07/15/2018

With fire restrictions lifted and the Tonto National Forest re-opened, a small group spent the weekend up North near Payson to run Pyeatt Draw. It was partly cloudy to cloudy most of the weekend with heavy rainfall on Saturday night. There was a moderate amount of standing water from recent rainfall and FR 198 was quite muddy and slick. Volunteers with the Tonto Recreation Alliance have been cataloging and working on the areas surrounding trails and have installed a new carsonite sign at the entrance of the trail. The marker number was FR 15**, I'm sorry I cannot recall the last 4 digits. This has in no way changed Pyeatt Draw. With this marker volunteers have signed a local spur trail; possibly one to explore in the future. The 4 vehicles that took the challenge of completing the last obstacle were successful, with winches of course. The only casualty was a tire bead but, easily remedied.

Bobby Nelson

Official Crew

74350

Open

Visited: 03/24/2018

I spent the weekend up in Payson exploring around with a couple different groups. We ran Pyeatt Draw on Saturday and Baby Doll to Crackerjack on Sunday. There are so many great trails to explore up there. I hope to be posted more of these trails to the website in the next few months. I have a bunch more videos of the area posted at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqvpVThlbR-IwMLX4tlRRcg

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