Chicken Corners ATV Trail

This is one of my favorite trails.  This is an easy trail and most people should be fine on it.  It offers some beautiful views of Kane Creek canyon and the Colorado River.  It will take about 4 hours.  This trail starts at the parking lot on Kane Creek Road.  On main street in Moab you will turn west at the McDonalds on Kane Creek road.  Continue west until there is a Y intersection.  Stay left and continue up pass the Moab Rim trail.  A trailhead parking lot is  where the road turns from blacktop to dirt.  Plenty of trailer parking on the ride side of the road.  There is also several parking area's up the dirt road.  There is posted BLM fee camping area's up Kane Creek Canyon.  There is one camp ground before the dirt road and many on the dirt road.  If you are pulling a trailer beware that there is a steep/sharp S-Curve down the dirt road before the camping places.  Also there is the river you will have to go through at least once.  When I was there, there had been some good rain storms and some of the camping spots were washed out.

The road to Chicken Corners is mostly graded and anyone should be able to ride it.  From the parking lot you will follow Kane Creek Road going through the river two times.  There will be a fork in the road where there is a metal sign left up Kane Creek canyon and straight - right up to Hurrah Pass.  The trail goes up over Hurrah pass and then over towards the Colorado River.  At the pass there is a Potash Plant across the Colorado river where they die the water blue in the evaporation ponds.  There is two other forks after Hurrah pass.  The first fork is streight to Chicken Corners and right to to Jackson Hole, not in Wyoming.  The next fork goes to Lockhart Basin left (very difficult trail), Chicken Corners right.  The trail ends at the Colorado River across from Dead Horse Point State Park shown below. 

There is a very skinny hiking trail along the cliff that goes around a corner from the parking area which is where this trail gets it name.  Are you to chicken to walk around the corner.  If you decide to hike around the corner be very careful I don't know if anyone has died there but if you fell you would.  I would recommend you take pictures from the parking lot of the Colorado River, there is nothing around the corner and the view is the same.  If you look close you can see the visitors center at Dead Horse Point.  This is a one way road so you will have to return the same way you came.  Watch for Rocky Mountain Sheep in the area.