CROWN KING via Lake Pleasant

[Skymeister]

For those who haven’t taken this route this year:
The US Forest Service no longer maintains the upper part of the route
due to budgetary constraints. The Forest Service in Crown King calls it an Un-maintained Class 5 route. Translation: Its a fun ride, but I do suggest body armor and bike armor. You will get to bottom your shocks plenty of times and the trail often disappears due to rock slides from the monsoon. I ate it a few times going over boulders on a part of the trail that had seen better days. If you want to get around some of this you can switch from the trail to SR 191 about half way up. That also lends to some beautiful scenery and an interesting trip through mines back in the hills. Everyone in our party had a rough ride. Everyone ate it. Everyone loved the ride...once we had arrived at the Crown King Bar![8D]

[OffRoadRider]

Ive always wanted to do that ride...how is the forest looking with the lack of water and bark beetles??? some family of mine live up there they said its just a major fire hazard. so who ever rides up there be safe and dont light that forest on fire my famly has been up there for 20+ years and we like it.. so is route 5 still able to be ridden by quads? im thinkin about ridin up there when i get my new bikes...soon hopefully! only if someone buys the honda 200s and xr80 (so go look at them in classifieds on RA!!!) i went up ther with some family in a toyota a couple years ago and it wasnt bad, just one major stepup in the road and some rocks but havent been up that way since..let me know how it is...dont got to the ck bar go to the Mill its better best food in town.

offroadrider

[Skymeister]

Its a tough ride for a quad. We were careful and still managed to actually flip a Kawasaki 650 quad twice. It was due to the deep trenches and boulders on Castle Hill- its really washed out. I wouldn't reccommend taking a new bike up there unless you want to break it in (emphasis on the word "break"). I was on a KLX 400(dual sport bike) It was an adventure- Thanks to body armor and a bunch of well placed titanium on the bike,Im sore and the bike is sore...but we're both still running. [:0] I hear you can get up from Wagner and thats its a much smoother trail. It joins the Crown King road at SR 191.[8D]

[OffRoadRider]

do you ride up there alot??? someday i want to plan a ride up there before they shut the place down...but ill only go if those hondas of mine get sold...im waitin on a warrior and somtin else

offroadrider