Phillips Canyon East

I have driven off-roading long enough that I should not be lulled by an easy trail start. After a sandy wash start, I did not expect the rough trail this became. It was a fun trail with its driving challenges, and the Waypoint 2 camping spot is excellent. We proceeded from its end to Phillips Canyon West and enjoyed the challenge of an even more difficult trail. Odessa Canyon through proved a bit much for a lone vehicle, and we turned around to the shortest trail back to the pavement over Tin Can Alley back to Mule Canyon.

This was a fun trail that will be pretty easy for any truck with low range but a few rocks here and there and some steeper sections might rule out some AWD or 2WD vehicles.

Beautiful scenery and places to stop and appreciate your surroundings. Not a difficult trail at all, but very enjoyable. 3rd gen Tacoma TRDOR w/2" lift and 33 MT's.

We ran up Phillips West before going down Pillips East. Both trails seemed unchanged from the recent storms. This is a great warm up trail before running the bigger trails. A lot of times we use the Pillips trail as a short cut to get back to camp. Good times!

We had a ton of fun today on this trail. We ran it backwards from how it’s described.