Other rides in South-eastern Utah

Nine Mile Canyon

This canyon is good 50 km long and several hundred meters high, southeast of Price, ca. 3 hours away from SLC. On its bottom is a well maintained dirt road. Each several kms, there are side canyons, in which are often roads or trails, which are well suited for biking.
We took one like this on Sat. afternoon, up via Harmon Canyon, down Prickly Pear Canyon.

Here is the ride start. The ride down Prickly Pear

looked like this. During the ride down, I managed to punch read tire,

here is me during the repair. Then we had to wade the Nine Mile Creek to get back to the main road. Different people chose different methods.

Here can be seen both that were used.

Here is shot a bit later, from which can be seen which one was more successful. Here is the trail map, start is at the red arrow, end at the blue. In the evening, we settled on a

very nice spot.

In the morning we got up slowly and prepared for another ride. This time there was no plan. We drove up the road out of the canyon and biked off one turnoff. Then we took another,

more faint turnoff south, towards the canyon.

Here is a picture where we went, the trail is in a juniper-pine forest marked by the arrow. We rode as long as we could, till we reached a cliff from which there was

this view. Here is the ride map. We started on the road marked by red arrow, followed the dirt road marked by the blue and ended up on a cliff with the violet. All that remainded was to pack up and drive back to SLC.
Here is Gregg Bromka's account on the Nine Mile Canyon area.

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