National Parks will Cite AWD Cars for Driving on 4WD-Only Trails

[Ddays]

Not gonna lie, I especially like the fact National Parks and Preserves are now including signs prohibiting Side by Sides, UTVs and ATVs as well.

 

[piginajeep]

Remember that old bitch in the BMW way out in Death Valley on Titus canyon, that was wild.

She’s the reason

 

[bobfriesenhahn]

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. In today's world you have to watch out for the majority and not the exceptions. There are so many IG and TikTok dipshits out there thinking they can do anything and go anywhere because some jackass influencer posted a video where they did it that I applaud the NPS for doing this. Someone has to save the idiots from themselves.

It seems better to charge $100k per extraction, and the extraction is required in order to ever drive again.

 

[RESURECTIONJK]

Maybe it's just me but all the signs I've seen in National Parks like Death Valley, Canyon Lands or the like are pretty specific.

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Not gonna lie, I especially like the fact National Parks and Preserves are now including signs prohibiting Side by Sides, UTVs and ATVs as well.

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This sign in particular makes me happier than the AWD restriction to be honest. Most of the RAV4’s can’t reach the hard shit that the SxS’s like to fuck with. That being said… can we just rid our trails of both

 

[RESURECTIONJK]

As others have mentioned and it’s not spoken about enough is that just because you have a capable rig, AWD or 4WD doesn’t mean much as most folks just throw a credit card at a showroom new rig and then get themselves into trouble.
Eddie hit the nail on the head. Most people lack the skill even in a fully built, race ready rig. Just spend 20 minutes watching EJS or Trail hero highlights and the amount of people that have $100k plus rigs with zero clue how to drive will astonish you.
Now you add the typically setup RAV4 or Subaru Outback etc AND zero skills and you have a recipe for disaster.
Skill WILL get you a lot of places in a lesser rig to a point, but there are some things skill just can’t overcome and, you can’t have a park ranger at every trail head quizzing you on what kind of driver you are.

 

[epriev]

If NPS is going to restrict (or prohibit) a trail to particular type of vehicle, they must define what type of vehicle may or may not utilize the trail in order to enforce it. How would you propose defining the vehicles in an easily understood language at the trailhead so when someone pulls up in an AWD vehicle they understand that some AWD vehicles are acceptable but others are not - and whether *their* AWD vehicle falls within that definition?

I'm sure most can agree that the restriction based on "You can drive your AWD vehicle on this trail, but only if you have the driving skills necessary to do so" would work just peachy.

Gate keeper obstacles used to be a thing. If you can get through, you can do the trail.