Taylor Pass

4800

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 10/10/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Great trail coming from Buena Vista. There were road construction delay signs for the week but all we saw was equipment. No work being done and we passed no issues. Narrow trail through the trees. Boulder hill and the creek were fun! And the views at the top were beyond amazing! I need to come back to complete Pearl pass along with this.

Ray

6550

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 09/03/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

The trail immediately challenges you with the rocks, many of which are embedded in the middle of the trail. Line choices were important, even with decent lines I still scraped in some areas. The creek got pretty narrow in some spots with large rocks to roll over. Climbing out of the creek was moderately technical and required a spotter in the beginning. Once you arrive at the summit, it's a bumpy but picturesque decent into the valley. Overall a great challenging trail to cut your teeth on, especially if your rig is that of the overland variety.

Ed Helmuth

3600

Open

Visited: 09/03/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

We ran this with the club. Still a challenging boulder trail the whole way up. Lots of traffic on the Taylor Park side and no traffic on the Aspen side.

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

30300

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 08/07/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Clear day on Taylor Pass. Very few people or vehicles. Easy trip up and over to Pearl Pass.

Dave Purvis

300

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 07/30/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Harder

This trail is awesome. A short 6 miles from Taylor Park to the pass, but the fun never ends. It’s a challenging trail, especially for a fully loaded overland rig. Shorter wheelbase is better, and 33’s or greater are almost required. Lots of rock gardens and an awesome creek section leading into the one major obstacle. We had 2 vehicles needing to be winched through or over the rocks, and one lost a valve stem and we had to do a tire change on trail. Everyone that had to wait for us was gracious and patient, thankfully. All in all, a great day!!

Jason Lonergan

300

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 07/26/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Fun trail with lots of rocks. We ran this trail from the aspen side to Taylor Park. The Aspen side is a little rocky but overal fairly moderate. Things kick up a notch heading into Taylor Park as the trial becomes incredibly rocky and you have to slowly pick your way through to the exit. The rather lengthy section running in the stream is really cool and somewhat unique.

Ed Helmuth

3600

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 06/24/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Harder

Trail passable the whole way! We ran the trail today all the way through from Tayler Park, Ashcroft, to Aspen. Good challenge up to pass! Going in the stream was real cool. We ran it in a Rubicon and our son ran it in a 2” lifted double cab long bed Tacoma. Sliders, skids and exhaust reroute were beneficial! Views were awesome from the top of the pass

Brian Spittell

1250

Open

Rated 3/5

Visited: 07/29/2021

Difficulty Accuracy: Harder

The Trail was exceptionally rocky and rough and the views were good but not all that great compared to some nearby. It was fun but far from a great trail.

Richard Skelton

900

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 06/27/2021

This pass has it all! Rock climbing, amazing water crossings, shelf roads, and amazing views.

Kevin

2800

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 11/03/2020

This trail is harder than I expected even after reading the description and watching YouTube videos. Once you turn off onto the trail starts very rocky. I'm running a JL sport on 33s. Many rocks are atleast "24 high. The 2 door did great using the 2 pedal method but way harder than I expected

Brian Schaefer

200

Open

Rated 4/5

Visited: 08/25/2020

I started the trail on the Ashcroft (Express Creek) side heading towards Taylor Reservoir. Ashcroft to Taylor pass and the start of Taylor River Road is pretty mild with lots of great scenery. The decent from Taylor pass requires constant attention due to lots of loose rocks on the larger size. I am on 35s and took a cautious approach and really tried to pick good lines. My goal was to not scrape at all. I did end up dragging the rear differential across a rock. I'd like to run this trail in the opposite direction in the beginning of summer when the water levels in the creek a little higher. Such a cool feature!

David Lestage

300

Open

Rated 2/5

Visited: 08/05/2020

Taylor Pass was extremely bumpy and narrow(in Jeep) on the Taylor Park side. Road was nearly entirely large rounded boulders and very narrow lines. First time I didn't complete a trail in over 35 years of driving. Had to exit the vehicle to find my line three times within first two miles. Hit lots of razor/atv (no Jeeps) traffic coming from Aspen side, with very few pull offs for passing. Very disappointing to see the road in this shape. Never made it up to river section. Turned around at about two miles up, due to fear of damaging the vehicle. Disappointing to see the road in this condition.

Kevin Wiese

1200

Open

Rated 4/5

Visited: 09/09/2019

Very fun trail. Drove from Aspen to Taylor Park and took about 4.5 hours. Hit the skid plates and rocker panels a few times and needed a spotter entering the creek. Take it slow and pick your lines and you'll have a great time.

Mike

600

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 08/13/2019

Ran the trail from Taylor Park to Ashcroft. Lots of water in the creek. Avalanche debris on Ashcroft side is cleared and wide but watch for utility vehicles on the trail still cutting wood and clearing trees. We were stopped for 10 minutes by a crew blocking the trail loading wood. Creek exit is a nice challenge for stock vehicles. We had a group ranging from my 1950 Willys Jeepster to a brand new JL 4door and the the only jeep that had trouble was a bone stock TJ with full highway pressure in street tires and swaybar connected. Made it though. Awesome trail.

Doug

400

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 08/02/2019

Confirming the previous comment, the pass via Richmond Ridge doable, and the ridge is accessible from the Aspen Mtn ski slope climb road.

Justin Hurlburt

800

Open

Rated 4/5

Visited: 07/17/2019

Taylor pass is open. Express creek in ashcroft is still impassible due to avalanche debris. However drive up aspen mtn, midnight mine, or little annies to richmond ridge. Traverse over taylor pass from that direction. Just drove a stock toyota 4runner from Aspen to Crested butte.

Jeffrey Anderson

600

Impassable

Rated 2/5

Visited: 07/15/2019

Looks like a few of the downed trees shown in the previous post have been cut, but the avalanche debris is massive.

Justin Hurlburt

800

Impassable

Visited: 07/01/2019

avalanche destruction blocking trail on aspen side.

Jeffery Tyler Head

100

Impassable

Rated 2/5

Visited: 06/01/2019

Trail impassable due to large avalanche on aspen side around 1mile up the trail, May be passable later in summer months as it warms up

Max

850

Open

Rated 4/5

Visited: 08/05/2018

I did this on a leveled 2016 Colorado with 265/70r17's. The North Side was a breeze. Once we got over the peak and started our descent, we quickly got into the gritty stuff. Constantly getting out to pick our best lines, spotting and double checking before we put our trucks thru the gauntlet. From start to finish, it took us about 4 hours, and I escaped with damage to my "GM Off-road Nerf Bars" (they're hardly offroad worthy, idk why GM advertises them that way), and a bent aluminum skid plate. The nerf bars were toast anyways from a trip earlier this year, so I'm not worried, but rock sliders would have done the job.

Ryan Boudreau

Official Crew

97600

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 08/13/2016

Our second trail of the day on day 2 of the Unlimited LJ Adventure was Taylor Pass. We ran into a lot of traffic due to the RZR Rally in Taylor Park which caused some issues with our group of 12 as there is not a lot of room to pass oncoming traffic on the lower portion of the trail down in the trees. We did our best to maneuver around the RZRs and work our way up to the summit. The creek that you follow starting at waypoint 3 was very shallow and the rocks on the exit were not much of an issue for our group since all of them were on 35'' tires or taller. The views from the summit are spectacular as you look back down into the valley of Taylor Park, or down the other valley towards Ashcroft.

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