White Rim Trail with the Island in the Sky behind.
Moab is a Mecca for off-road activities - jeeping, mountain biking and dirt motorcycle riding. People come here from all over the world to test their off-road skills. I spend at least a week every year riding trails around Moab - White Rim Trail, La Sal Loop, Top of the World, Lockhart Basin, Kane Creek, many slickrock trails, to name a few.
The White Rim trail goes around the Island in the Sky section of the Canyonlands National Park for more than 100 miles. Most vehicles take several days to complete the loop. Motorcycles can do it in a day easily. Day users used not to need a permit. But the ever-more imposing bureaucracy introduced permits even for day users. Luckily, there are tons of other beautiful trails waiting to be ridden freely.
Vertical walls line canyons.
Slick rock is all around Moab.
Dramatic view of the Colorado river at the end of the Chicken Corners Trail.
With friends on the White Rim Trail.
White Rim Trail below the Island in the Sky.
The edge of the White Rim Trail is white, hence the name.
Bizarre rock formations along the White Rim Trail.
The easy but very scenic Onion Creek Canyon.
Slick rock.
There are even sand dunes outside Moab.
Gemini bridges area.
Gemini bridges area.
La-Sal loop with the Top of the World in the distance behind.
Top of the World.
Heaven for solitude seekers.
Jeep trails are what Moab is famous for among off-roaders.
On the way to Hurrah pass.
La Sal mountains across Colorado river.
A canyong carved by the Colorado river outside Moab.
Rocks straigh out of the Roadrunner cartoon.
Behind the Rocks area is bordered by the Kane creek on one side.