Sorry for the big picture.
3/13-14 Bradshaw or overland....
This is what I suggest for day one - meet at Chiriaco Summit at 10:00 AM, top off and head south toward Red Canyon. It takes about two easy hours to make it down the canyon. We'll eat lunch in the canyon before heading east bound down the Bradshaw Trail proper. The graphic below shows the elevation in the solid background and speed in red. Where the red line drops downwards is where I stopped for pictures ... I like to stop a lot!
3/13-14 Bradshaw or overland....
We skirt along the north edge of the Chocolate Mountain bombing range. We can do 40 mph along the Bradshaw Trail here so it takes about an hour and a half to drive the trail to the point where it turns into the Augustine Pass Trail. The Pass is a bit slower going and it takes about another hour and a half to get to the point on the map where it cuts south.
3/13-14 Bradshaw or overland....
This is where the day trippers can bail out the road that continues east before cutting north and out to the 10 highway - this is smooth packed gravel road and takes about 45 minutes. It's 14.5 miles down Red Canyon to the Bradshaw, 31.25 miles to the camp area, and 18.5 out to the 10 freeway ... and then a long way back to Chiriaco.
3/13-14 Bradshaw or overland....
We'll camp over night in the BLM land around Chuckwalla Springs and come the next day we can run up and back the road to the spring, out around the road the day trippers used and right where it does that "S" loop we'll turn south (not shown on the map) and head down the Graham Pass Road back to the Bradshaw Trail. We'll run the Bradshaw to the east and bail north at Wileys Well Road or a couple of less improved trails that run through the Little Chuckwalla Mountains. We ran the Graham Pass a few years ago and it was interesting but with the years and the recent rains who knows!
The whole trip is very stock friendly - almost the whole trip can be made in 2WD but there are some parts with deep loose sand which would concern me.
My cell phone number is (nine five one) eight four oh ! eight six one one. I generally turn my cell phone off once we leave pavement ... I would hate to get called back to work. I'm thinking the wild flowers ought to be at or very near their peak blooms.
