Lake Havasu, Arizona - Standard Wash,

           South of Lake Havasu City on Hwy 95 at mile marker 172-175, you will find three major boon docking areas, one with a kiosk and map.  The map shows a large are of numerous washes to ride, all coming out of the mountains, going down to the highway and the river at the bottom

   *Feb 13, we rode 13 miles, getting the lay of the land, and riding towards the mountain, picking any trail we wanted. We rode up a nice wash, great sights, and the rock colors were fantastic, green, purple, black, browns and white. Even thou the staging areas were full of campers , we didn't meet any other OHV out on the trail.

   *Feb 14th 21mi
      We headed NE toward a tower on the Mojave Mountain top. As you leave the boon docking area and rise in elevation, you have a great view of the Colorado river and the town of Lake Havasu City. We went up a nice wash, where the trail left the wash, but it was to steep to get up, so we just choose different trail .  There are numerous trails, some in interesting washes and some on the flats.

We choose the trail at random and ended up at Upper Jupiter Mine.  There we found a horizontal shaft with three vent shafts. Tom walked in 20 ft, where he found a large room and a shaft going down! Most mines you don’t want to venture into because of lethal gasses, snakes, animals or shafts on the floor. There was a 20ft round, and a  8ft high stock tank. In this area they used to mine gold!

We enjoyed riding in this area and we were lucky enough to be here at the Winter festival, where you can partake in a Rodeo, car show, concerts and the spectacular fire works display Thurs.-Sun 7:30-10pm.  We could see the show from our campsite 2 mi out from Sara Park. We also drove to the Desert Bar. It was an old mine and as slowly turned into a bar and entertainment. Beware you have to drive 7 miles on a rocky, bumpy dirt road.