profdant139 wrote:
carringb, how and where do you go really off road, not just off pavement?? In all of the Calif national forests, we have to stay on existing dirt roads covered by the motor vehicle use maps. Some are very rough, but they are "roads."
Thanks in advance for your comments!!
Most of our public lands are also restricted to "marked" roads and trails, although there's plenty of true off-trail use areas as well. But the big difference here is most of our marked trails are not in any way maintained, and some can go years between seeing a vehicle, so they tend to be overgrown, with rock/logs/washouts common. The marked trails in CA see so much traffic, they aren't even in the same category it seems like. Also most of our marked forest roads permit "dispersed camping" off but near the roads, and that's where things get real tricky.