Information
Nearby Trails
| Status: | Open |
| Typically Open: | Year Round |
| Length: | 1.9 miles |
| Highest Elevation: | 5091 feet |
| Duration: | About 3 hours |
| Shape of Trail: | Connector |
| Best Direction to Travel: | North |
| Nearest Town: | Moab |
| Nearest Town w/ Services: | Moab |
| Official Road Name: | Rusty Nail |
| Management Agency: | Bureau of Land Management |
| District: | Moab Field Office |
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Highlights
Rusty Nail is a difficult rock crawling 4x4 trail that is a "shortcut" to the most popular, and most difficult obstacles on the Golden Spike & Gold Bar Rim trails. This trail will challenge the most seasoned veteran wheeler both physically and mentally. Large, off camber, undercut ledges, true to the Moab testament, make up the majority of the obstacles on Rusty Nail. Although there are only 4 named main obstacles, the trail is riddled with numerous challenges and no bypasses. There are alternate routes on a couple obstacles, but those alternate routes prove to be just as difficult if not more difficult than the main route.
Route Information
Waypoints
1. Tailhead (0.00 mi)
After 1.5 miles on the Gold Bar Rim Trail, you reach a Y intersection with a sign in the middle. Rusty Nail Trail starts at the sign on the right. The trail sign is very easy to see.
Going left continues Gold Bar Rim Trail.
Directions to Trailhead
Trailhead Coordinates: 38.601659, -109.655637
Starting Point: Moab
From Moab, take highway 191 north to the parking lot on the left marked with a sign for Gemini Bridges. This parking lot is an ideal place to prep your vehicle for the trail. Follow the road past the parking area and up and over the bluff for a while, through a sandy wash area and turn left following the sign marking Gold Bar Rim. Follow Gold Bar Rim for 1.5 miles where you will see the trail split to the right and a sign marking the Rusty Nail Trail.
Camping
Not allowed
For individual use only, not to be shared.