White Pocket Trailhead

Decided to get a tour guide in Page since wasn’t traveling with an appropriate 4WD high clearance vehicle. It was actually raining, what made the road a little more challenging. We met at 7 am and it took about a couple of hours to get there. The hike up to the formation is short. The rock features are very unusual: lots of swirling, twisted Navajo sandstone. It is a surreal geological formation i... Decided to get a tour guide in Page since wasn’t traveling with an appropriate 4WD high clearance vehicle. It was actually raining, what made the road a little more challenging. We met at 7 am and it took about a couple of hours to get there. The hike up to the formation is short. The rock features are very unusual: lots of swirling, twisted Navajo sandstone. It is a surreal geological formation in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. You almost feel like walking in a different planet. Lots to see and experience. Very remote, what made it even more special. Because it is not as accessible we were the only ones there for a couple of hours. There’s no water, restrooms, or shade. Very poor cell phone service in the area.

I'll leave my review of the 4wd road to White Pocket TH here. If you have even basic experience driving off road, the road out to White Pocket is very straight forward. Once you get into the sand, you immediately get a feel for how to drive it, how to accelerate and brake. The road is constantly being driven, so it's well worn and tracked out, there are really no surprises at all. I'd be much more... I'll leave my review of the 4wd road to White Pocket TH here. If you have even basic experience driving off road, the road out to White Pocket is very straight forward. Once you get into the sand, you immediately get a feel for how to drive it, how to accelerate and brake. The road is constantly being driven, so it's well worn and tracked out, there are really no surprises at all. I'd be much more worried if this was hardly ever driven, not knowing what may lay ahead, but with the road being driven back and forth all day, every day, there's nothing to worry about. That being said, you obviously still need a high clearance 4wd vehicle, mainly because the wheel tracks sit low, with sand mounding up in the middle and sides of the track, and if your vehicle doesn't sit high enough, you will just end up plowing sand, eventually getting stuck. I also recommend airing down your tires, we found that 18psi was good, probably could have gone to 15psi for an even more floaty ride. Frankly, the hard packed gravel roads from the highway out to White Pocket Rd were way worse, because they are severely washboarded and rattly (I aired down once off the freeway and this made a huge difference). Lastly, I'd recommend downloading a GPS track of the road from House Rock Rd (the main North-South packed gravel road through the Monument). It's about 14 miles long and there are a lot of forks and turns that could be missed if not navigating, and Google Maps isn't reliable to follow the correct track properly. There are a few mild rocky sections that do require very basic line picking, but you'd almost have to try to bottom out on a rock, overall it's a very mellow off road track, and not very difficult to drive, again with the caveat that you have some off road experience.