Taylor Canyon Road - Canyonlands National Park

Take a drive up five-mile Taylor Canyon Road which turns off the western portion of White Rim Road near Labyrinth Campsite. Going up Taylor Canyon, the road ends near the rock formations called Zeus and Moses, where there is a primitive campsite (camping permit required). Total dirt road driving time is about 80 minutes from Utah State Route 313.

[@oldjeeper2394]

My wife and I in our separate Jeeps (2009 Rubicon and 2015 Unlimited) drove the entire White Rim loop and Taylor Canyon in 2015 after it rained the night before. Lots of mud😲. Three days and camped along the way. Camp sites in high demand. One of our best off road adventures. Great video!

[@lemaitrethemonk]

I wish I had a V.R. set up for this. I will be going to Canyonlands national park in August 2021. I cannot wait. Thank you for making the video, editing the music and uploading to KZbin. Cheers, blessings and much health to you and whomever reads this...

[@truthseeker8123]

An word of advice, if you are going down long canyon from Dead Horse Point, or Schaefer Trail from Island in the sky, go down hill way first unless you are firmly confident in your rig. So awesome there. Safe travels

[@chrisconley8105]

Meaningful music, beautiful landscape and no narration necessary, perfect! Thank you

[@chiparoo222]

Spectacular ! ! ! ... There's some small treacherous moments where a portion of the track had fallen off down to the river leaving a VERY-NARROW track. Great audio choice too ! Thanks for the pleasure !

[@floydrigby1587]

Thank you! I took a great trip and didn't have to leave my office. Marvelous scenery.

[@davidlambert3892]

Beautiful! Canyonlands is my favorite place on the planet! I hope to get back there some day and go into Taylor Canyon and Mineral Canyon and Lathrop Canyon.

[@gingerbread6614]

Beautiful. Thank you

[@jeffevans3193]

Love it, the heat, scorpions, snakes, frogs, spiders, bee's, everything that stings, nature.

[@TheMrprez]

We are going to Utah next month. We will be adding this trail to our list. Thanks!

[@mikerobbins5049]

Thanks for sharing your adventure. I miss the Moab area as we havent been able to go for 3 yrs now. Maybe 2022 will work out. White Rim and its side roads are on my bucket list....

[@vos6136]

Thanks Dave, awesome video !

[@WanderlostOverland]

Taylor Canyon campsite is one of our favorites on the White Rim Trail! Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@tompelham4648]

Thanks! Great vid! Quite the landscape....seems to have geological history seeping from every nook n cranny.

[@ahbenjamin2889]

i cant believe how narrow the road is in some places. i have watched this video so many times. very enjoyable and very well done. thank you so much.

[@dave3b5d]

Thankfully there's not much two-way traffic. The stretch along the river would be a real problem. Thanks for the nice thoughts.

[@tommymagnusson]

I really enjoy the video so much. I sure do miss BeUTAHful. Enjoy the music 🎧🎼🎶🎵. Love the surrounding are Moab. Thank you for sharing the video greetings from a Swede who used to live in northern part of Utah, Logan or Cache valley

[@tomduffy3965]

Nice video. Great music!

[@clivegreenall309]

Thank you for sharing this video, Dave. Beautiful landscape and a great choice of music accompaniment. Regards from S Africa Clive

[@dave3b5d]

Thanks for the comment Clive. Cheers!

[@BaconTomatoCheese]

Beautiful… Never been on that trail, got to try it next time. Nice music to go with it, too. Worthy of a subscribe - which I have

[@spookygirl7761]

nice, cool. awesome.

[@Kya_the_camera_dog]

That was amazing, thanks for the tour!!!

[@margaretarross1712]

Good one!

[@bonusman]

The mission would explore this before the year 2000, fun times...

[@oscarmolinaoutdooradventur1648]

beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@gracieladesiderio5880]

Por donde mires es maravilloso!

[@Rvnmoon111]

wow, Wonderful !!!!

[@danprunty5249]

thanks great video we did white rim 2 yrs ago but were so lo on fuel didnt do taylor canyon incredible scenery thanks again

[@dave3b5d]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment!

[@jamesgraves6567]

This is such an amazing video keep it up I just added you to my list 😉

[@daveclark8359]

Thanks, I'm glad so many like the video. I made it on the spur of the moment, knowing I had an attachment for the top of my car, and I'm glad I did.

[@dave3b5d]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks.

[@devildog6899]

First of may two of my friends and I are going to Moab for 7 awesome days. Great video and I loved the music.

[@dave3b5d]

Gee, I hope you're going with them. :-)

[@devildog6899]

@@dave3b5d did a double take and yes I'm going with them

[@dave3b5d]

Devildog 68 Oh great, I guess I mis-read that. Have fun!

[@mikerobbins5049]

I hope to do White Rim in its entirety plus some of the offshoots such as Taylor Canyon. We’ve been to Moab 7 times now and have some favorite places to revisit but always go on some new adventures too. Loved your video of Taylor.

[@dave3b5d]

Mike Robbins - Be sure to give yourself plenty of time to do the whole White Rim Road. I recommend at least three days. It’s a good time! On this particular trip I just went into Taylor Campsite for two nights then back out.

[@mikerobbins5049]

Dave Clark Yes, I have read enough and watched videos enough to know 3 days at least for White Rim. Problem is, we are not much of campers, at least the wife isnt. Another problem is we arent youngsters. We are both retired and like our comfy beds but I would love camping for a couple of nites. I might regret it afterwards though....

[@dave3b5d]

@@mikerobbins5049 When I did the whole White Rim Road I went with two other old geezers like myself. None of us are real camping fans but we did what we had to, for the experience. There's really no other way to tour that road. We saw a couple motorcyclists who were trying to do the whole loop in a day but that would seem to take all the fun out of it. We decided four days and three nights would have been better since we would have had more time for stopping, looking, hiking, picture taking, etc.

[@elli003]

Nice video ! Marking this on my places-to-go map.

[@daveclark8359]

Thanks!

[@reyhanismail4441]

it's so beautiful

[@56kicki]

Excellent!

[@StereoSpace]

Awesome drive. Thanks for uploading this.

[@hg7240]

Hey, good thing that other vehicle wasn't coming from @0:45-3:15 :)

[@hypersturm]

great, just great. as a driver you can't really enjoy the landscape because you have to concentrate constantly on the road. unless you take a break. greetings from Europe

[@donnalinnevonberg730]

Love this!!

[@ianscott9396]

Great video!

[@richardcwilliams8381]

Thanks for this spectacular, relaxing video. It was just great as all of the other comments have stated. Can you comment briefly on your camera setup? I assume it was 4K, firmly mounted inside the car, but also with video stabilization. It was jus great video. Richard

[@warrenbruhn5888]

Very nice! Enjoyed the music and the view of the road. Seems that an AWD crossover is fine on this bit of road. Might try it myself.

[@dave3b5d]

Correct. I wouldn't try the entire White Rim Road in a crossover but this stretch is no problem, unless the road should start to deteriorate.

[@JenKumar]

Thanks for sharing!

[@NigelNaughton]

Amazing!

[@catholiccamper]

Nize! About to release one of these vids myself. Was in Echo Park.

[@lourdesMariakarten]

Curti a viagem.

[@mariadelourdesnascimento8401]

Parece moradia de seres de outro planeta terrestre

[@dave3b5d]

É engraçado, sim. 🙂

[@mudro001]

Awe inspiring! We are only on this Earth one time. I am from Oklahoma and have been out to almost All of the National Parks out West and wish my grown kids would travel. We live in NC....They are missing so much beauty........Travel while you can! Thank you! Is this road open to the public? Thanks so much for sharing.

[@dave3b5d]

Yes, the road is open to the public. If you plan to do any camping, campsites are very limited and camping permits are required. I’m glad you enjoyed the video.

[@jacktally3210]

How many miles was that? Out.

[@dave3b5d]

Thanks!

[@elieuncle]

Hi Dave, enjoyed the video very much. My wife and I visited Moab in late September, rented a jeep and tackled some trails. We went down the Shafer switchbacks back to Moab, but something like the White Rim trail would require more planning and time. May I ask what vehicle you used ? Doesn't look like it's a Wrangler.

[@daveclark8197]

I was in a Subaru Crosstrek. I would not recommend attempting the entire White Rim Road in a Subaru but the stretch from Mineral Road to Taylor Camp is not bad. That section could be done in just about any high clearance 4WD vehicle. Several sections of White Rim Road would require heavy duty 4WD with low gear range because there are some steep and very rocky stretches.

[@elieuncle]

Dave Clark Thank you ! Funny and coincidentally that's also the car I drive daily, had the Forrester before this and my wife drives an Impreza. Having virtually no experience we did use low range going down the Shafer switchbacks in the rented Jeep. Unfortunate that Subarus are AWD and don't have transfer cases with low gearing, or I don't know if such a thing exists, auto mechanics are not my forte. I've thing many videos of the White Rim trail showing those segments that surely require low range 4WD, as you mentioned.

[@oldjeeper2394]

Kinda odd you didn’t make a extra view of the Zeus and Moses towers at the end. Did you know they were named?

[@dave3b5d]

Yes (see my description) on a previous trip we hiked the trail up and around Moses and Zeus. It's quite nice. On this trip we hiked further out the Taylor Canyon wash.

[@ahbenjamin2889]

Thanks for the video . Fantastic have watched it numerous times. What are you driving?

[@dave3b5d]

Subaru Crosstrek

[@ahbenjamin2889]

@@dave3b5d I was going to ask you - before you answered if a Subaru Crosstrek could make such a trip . Thanks for the answer. I myself have a 2019 Subaru Crosstrek Limited.

[@2200Z]

I had to think about this for a minute. You said western portion of White Rim, so I just assumed you came around from Potash/Shafer. But, the Green River is on your right and then you took a left. Doh! You came in from from the north. I'm heading out there next weekend. I just added this trail to the list. Last year, I started heading out that way from 313, but what a maze of roads. I think I ended up on Mineral Point overlook trail. And, then I drove into a thunderstorm with lightning and heavy rain. Not a big deal, since I'm from Nebraska and we see severe weather all of the time. But, being up on the plateau with a ground-scraping storm meant the visibility was horrible. So, I turned back and hung around the park for a bit. Thank you for posting. P.S. Whatever happened to the band?

[@dave3b5d]

Yeah I suppose you could say I approached from the north on Mineral Road, getting to Taylor Canyon on the west side of the Island in The Sky District. To go in from Potash or Shafer Trail would require driving the entire White Rim Road, nearly 100 miles, which takes days. Have a fun trip! If you plan on camping in Taylor Canyon keep in mind you must make reservations.

[@crankybuzzard6867]

can't wait!

[@dave3b5d]

Have fun! It's a great canyon.

[@crankybuzzard6867]

did Shafer Rd a couple years ago. Outstanding. SO wanting to branch out this time. Don't have the 4Runner I had, but certainly this Sequoia should do fine.

[@juliancoker1902]

From highway 313 how long would you say this took you? My google maps says from Moab to the end of Taylor Canyon takes an hour and twenty four minutes. But I drive this roads slower than most even though I have a nice four wheel drive car.

[@dave3b5d]

Sorry, but I don't remember the exact timing. I seem to remember it was about two hours from when we left Arches Park (near Moab) until we were at the campsite in Taylor Canyon. But it might have been longer. You might want to allow three if you drive slowly. Don't forget to reserve the site. Enjoy!

[@bluecruiser2019]

Is that road still open?

[@daveclark8197]

As far as I know it is. It, and the White Rim Road it connects to are very popular.

[@cottoncountrytrucker2087]

What kind of vehicle are you driving?

[@dave3b5d]

Subaru Crosstrek.

[@cottoncountrytrucker2087]

@@dave3b5d hell yeah. Thanks for replying. The wife and I will be out there in June and we’re going to be driving an Outback.

[@pushbroom9398]

Could you pull a travel trailer thru there? Beautiful senre 😮😮😮

[@dave3b5d]

I wouldn't recommend pulling a trailer. It's a pretty rough, narrow road.

[@pushbroom9398]

👍👍 Thanks have a BLESSED day

[@christang2113]

Awesome video! What kind of vehicles do you need?

[@dave3b5d]

I went in a Subaru Crosstrek. The western section of the White Rim Road and Taylor Canyon Road do not require really high clearance but I do recommend all wheel drive. After rain the road might be impassable.

[@christang2113]

@@dave3b5d thank you for the suggestion!

[@capt.stubing5604]

Technically you are required to have 4wd low range to be on the White Rim Rd. It’s usually not too bad but last year vehicles going west to east without lockers weren’t making it past Hard Scrabble. Not taking these roads seriously can end poorly.

[@christang2113]

@@capt.stubing5604 agreed, white rim trail is more serious than the shaffer tail. You'll need 4x4 and a permit.

[@racksonable]

Perfect for emergency earthquake supple

[@rjh2772]

is that a dried up river bed

[@dave3b5d]

I'm no geologist but I think it's an ancient lake bed, carved over eons by wind, rain and flowing water. But I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again. 🙂

[@rjh2772]

@@dave3b5d 7 years has been a long time I hope the train hasn’t changed a whole lot like to take my dual sport dirtbike out there and ride. Maybe it’s all washed out at this point who knows

[@sabahattinklc7447]

👍

[@alexskinster1466]

What vehicle is this? All terrain tires or just all season?

[@dave3b5d]

Subaru Crosstrek with standard all season tires.

[@DaraDriver]

hi

[@blakejones917]

Hey Dave! Do you think I could reach this in a Stock Ford Explorer 2005, doesn't seem nearly as bad as some of the deeper parts of the basin road.

[@dave3b5d]

When I was there six years ago, the road was easily passable in my Subaru Crosstrek, starting from the northwestern end of White Rim Road. Unless the road has gotten a lot worse you'll have no trouble in an Explorer.