Elberta Slant Road

Had a great NYE out here this past week. It was raining a bit but the path was fairly clear. Good amount of water coming out of the tunnel.

We visited this trail when there was roughly 3-5” of snow. Just had to be careful not to slide off the trail. Very cool tunnel and we camped for the night just before the tunnel. Beautiful views, especially this time of year!

Fun trail. Recommend 4x4 and at least 8 inches of clearance.

Pretty busy with 4 wheelers but a fun little ride and the tunnel was pretty cool. Like other reviewers have said, probably worth just one trip.

Fun little trail. Probably one of those trails you only do once, maybe twice to show someone else. A little narrow when you driving where the tracks were. Mostly just a dirt road.

Author did an excellent job describing and providing perfect directions. The map shows you go off the main road. The shoot off to the tunnel is narrow for a full size truck and to fit had to maneuver cautiously. Went back on West side of Tintic mountains which made it a fun full day.

First of all, this trail should maybe be renamed and the route modified. As described here, you will pass through many "No Trespassing" signs to get from waypoint 1 to 2. I wasn't 100% sure if the signs were for the fields and private trails off the Elberta Slant Road, but honestly the entire section from waypoint 1 to 3 was super boring anyway. In the future I plan to run this trail in this order: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 9, 10. You basically just do the loop and go back out the way you came. I don't believe you run the risk of trespassing in this order. OK, onto the main review: when I showed my kids the pictures and videos of this trail they were not eager to go. Honestly, I feel like you have to be there to really appreciate it. It is much more majestic and beautiful than it appears even in my own pictures. The loop portion of the trail (3-8) is much narrower than I expected and has a lot more undulations that are fun (and unnerving to my wife). No problem at all going slow, but there was one portion in particular (waypoints 7-8) where I opted to throw it into 4lo since it's a fairly steep descent (running in the 3-8 order) with some loose rock. You could do it no problem in 4hi or AWD but I liked having the control. There are some cool narrow portions which I saw a full size truck drive through but which I would not have wanted to do in a wide vehicle. There are decent sized boulders along the trail that are easy enough to pass through for mid-size vehicles. Overall, I really liked it. The tunnel is obviously the star of the show and while it isn't very long it is pretty cool to see. My kids loved it. It was about a 1.5 hour drive for us to get to it and I still think it was worth it. Probably won't do it super often since it is relatively short, but if you make time to also hit up Nutty Putty Cave or Little Moab then it would be a really fun day.

I had a blast taking my Jeep out here for its first trip. The main road was very well groomed and the surrounding trails were a blast that were able to be done in 2wd until I got to a steeper climb where I had to put it into 4wd. The tunnel looked cool from the outside but couldn’t drive through because of some homeless people that had parked their camper in their their which was super lame.

A perfect trail for a short adventure. Coming down from the Provo area it was close enough that we were able to leave home and be back in just a few hours, and considering this it was definitely worth it. We had a bit of trouble finding the offshoot to the tunnel, and we actually ran the trail without hitting the tunnel first and then looped back to the start to try to find the tunnel for a second time. after a few more gnarly offshoots we finally found the right one and the tunnel was awesome. Not necessarily a trail that I would travel multiple hours to get to for itself, but if you need to break up a long drive or want need a short trip in Utah county then this is an awesome trail.

So cool! Was worth it definitely. We were happy it was getting dark when we got to the tunnel. I followed the directions to a tee and found it no problems. Was a tad disappointed by previous people leaving trash and tagging the walls but it was still awesome. We even found the old cement from the bridge!

Trail is a nice and easy dirt road. There are many off shoots from the road that make the turn to the tunnel a little confusing but if you want to do explore there's several places you can do this. The exact turn to the tunnel was not clear in the dark but we found the turn eventually and it was well worth it. A little mud after two days of rain and we had a great adventure. "Easy" is well ranked and can be done by any four wheel drive vehicle. If you don't turn off to the tunnel a car could do the road.

Fun trail at night just after the rain. Little mud which made it fun but the tunnel was amazing at night. Simple road but several of the offshoots are closer to a 1-2 in difficulty

Go in knowing you will have to take a short loop off the main road to go through the tunnel. It's to the right about 4 miles coming from elberta right as you start to enter the mountains. That road has some steep bits but with dry conditions 2wd is sufficient. The main road itself is boringly well groomed but there are plenty connected 4wheeler roads if you feel unchallenged.

Awesome easy trail no need for 4 wheel drive at all if its dry. The tunnel was not on the trail itself however and we missed the turn off to see it the first time but found it on our way back down the trail. The turn off is almost exactly halfway through the trail (about 4.2 miles from the Elberta side on the right). Only issue we had was scraping my running boards through some dirt mounds but what do you expect with a long ram 1500 that's only leveled and sitting on stock tires.

we started at the end and worked back. (i trailered my rig to test the new fuel system.) the snow was the only thing that had us lock the hubs. before i knew it we were at spot 2 (parking area). from looking at the topo yesterday, i was able to guess our way to the tunnel. i was looking for #9 area but we missed it. think we could make out some of where the train tracks were. didnt seem like it was 8 miles

Although there aren't any challenges, this was well worth seeing! The tunnel is really cool. There is a bit of garbage from disrespectful campers, but that's​ with any popular area.