Burr Trail

Description: The Burr Trail is a 67.7mi Scenic Backway between Boulder to the west and Bullfrog to the southeast. A mile after leaving Boulder you reach the Grand Stairecase National Monument. The first scenic highlight is the 6.8mi long Long Canyon. Here you drive between huge rock walls hoping that none of the boulders on the left or right will break loose. Shortly thereafter you reach Capitol Reef NP. From here on the Burr Trail is unpaved. The landscape offers again and again great views of canyons, mountains and of course the Waterpocket Fold, an earth fault which pulls here through the national park. After leaving the Burr Trail Switchbacks behind, the dirt road meets the Nottom Bullfrog Rd. The Burr Trail turns right to the south and ends after a total of 109 km in Bullfrog.

Our rating: Scenically a beautiful route. After Long Canyon at the latest, you can stop every few feet to take photos, because the scenery is so breathtaking. In any southwest vacation we could drive along here without ever getting bored. We definitely consider the route more spectacular to look at when driving from Boulder in the direction of Bullfrog.