Recommended Trail Users: Mountain Bikers, Hikers

 

Length: .78 miles

 

Difficulty: More Difficult (IMBA Trail Difficulty Rating System)

 

Special Area: Santa Clara River Reserve

 

Sub-Area: South Hills

 

Property Management: BLM

 

Access: Cove Wash Trailhead – From St. George, travel north on Bluff Street. Turn left on Sunset Blvd. Continue on Sunset Blvd as it turns into Santa Clara Drive. Turn left on Gates Lane (just before reaching the Jacob Hamblin Home on the right). Cross the river and at 0.4 miles turn left. At 0.7 miles turn right (at sign for Reserve). Pass the water tank, and at 1.3 miles turn right (at sign for reserve). Follow the road around to the left and park in the trailhead at 1.5 miles.

 

Description: From the trailhead, follow the Cove Wash West Trail (an existing two-track) until it drops into Cove Wash. Turn left into the wash to follow the Cove Wash East Trail for approximately .3 miles. Turn right onto an ATV track (which is the start of the Rim Rock Trail) that climbs up and out of the wash. Turn right at the first two-track intersection and continue traveling west up to the OHV exclusion fence and walk-over. Continue up the two-track for approximately an 1/8 mile. To avoid some large rocks in the two-track, the Rim Ramble Trail starts on the left. It wanders the edge of the mesa rim through typical black brush desert and eventually connects back to the Rim Rock Trail.