Red Cliffs Desert Reserve

High Point

This easy, 1.4 mile hike starts at the Black Gulch Trailhead off of Cottonwood Road. From the step-over, find your way over to the powerline maintenance road and follow this mostly rocky road for about 1 mile. You will pass the junction with the north end of the Yellow Knolls trail about half way up the road. At the powerline junction, bear left on the powerline access for a short stretch and break off to the right at the trail sign to take the old, 2-track, rocky, access road to the trail’s end near the St. George water pipeline. The highest point on the trail is a knoll located a little beyond the pipeline and only about 75 feet higher than the trailhead. The total up and down elevation change is about 410 feet. The trail provides nice views of the Turkey Farm and Yellow Knolls areas and of the remote valley below the Mesa Rim. The trail lies entirely on lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management within the Red Cliffs NCA.

: This area map shows the relationship of the High Point trail to all other linkages in this part of the system.

: High Point trail map and connection to Yellow Knolls trail

: High Point trailhead is located off the northern part of Cottonwood Road, past the Turkey Farm turn-off

: High Point trail is accessed from the Black Gulch trailhead, through this step-over

: Most of the High Point trail consists of pipeline and powerline maintenance roads

: The maintenance road is rough in a number of places

: Trail turns left at the powerline road at the top of the hill

: Trail splits off from the powerline road to the right, to enter the valley below

: Trail follows an old two-track down into the northern valley

: Trail ends near the St. George water pipeline on top of a pointed knoll (the ‘High Point’)

: View of the northern valley from end of trail

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