Ah Shi Sle Pah Trailhead Parking Lot | Wild Camping

April 17th, 2023 by Ray & Terri

Update from our previous post. We tried NM 57 on the way out. Parts were better, but most of it was just as bad and a longer drive than CR 7800. The last 5 miles were “paved” or used to be and comprises some of the worst parts.

April 14th, 2023 by Ray & Terri

We are full-timers in a 36 ft Class A with a Cherokee Trailhawk tow. We were here for a few days in mid April. The roads in can be pretty rough in places, but not too awful bad in others for dirt and gravel road anyway. I wouldn’t attempt it in anything other than a 4WD if the area were to get any significant rain, as the ruts in the road were pretty significant. There are basically two ways to get here, one is at Nageezi on Road 7800 to NM 57 (aka ISR 451 on some maps) from US 550, which is the way we came in. The 1st 4 of the 15 miles are paved, the rest is gravel and/or dirt. I was able to go between 20 and 30 mph most of the way, except in some really rough sections and at a couple of the cow guards. The other way, that BLM suggests on their website https://www.blm.gov/visit/ah-shi-sle-pah-wilderness, is to just take NM 57 off of US 550 several miles north of Nageezi, which we will try on the way out. The entrance to the trailhead is a fairly tight turn from the east, narrow, somewhat U-shaped and sporty (see photo looking NE, which really doesn’t do it justice), but after dropping our tow, we managed to get our 36’ MH up and in on the second attempt. Arriving from the east, I would suggest trying to turn around as we did and entering the trailhead from the west. To get to the wash and hoodoos it’s about a 0.6 mile walk from the trailhead. The trailhead area is nothing special, but the wash and hoodoos are really cool.

AT&T coverage was actually quite good, with 1-2 Bars of 5G service and speeds of up to 9 MB/s without a booster. We had an unobstructed view of the sky and so we were able to receive all 3 SW Dish satellites and Starlink had up to 10 MB/s. We didn’t try to load any OTA channels.

November 9th, 2022 by florian.deuretzbacher

The road is bad and the place is pretty boring. Need high clearance and 4WD to enter the parking lot. Wouldn’t come here again

June 10th, 2022 by prsmproducts.com

Tried getting here and the road was so bumpy and the weather was hot so we turned around, lots of nothing but wish we could’ve seen it. be back in winter to try again

April 7th, 2022 by coddiwompleskoolie

The trail is sweet! The hoodoos are amazing. Some of the coolest I’ve ever seen.

T-Mobile did not work for me. Occasionally I had one bar, but not strong enough for anything.

There was a group of car campers and a large RV when I visited with my 22ft short Skoolie. Stars were great, but it was very chilly at night in early April.

November 15th, 2021 by Kevin Stotz

parking lot for the trailhead. decent size all rig size capacity. the road in is closed, so this is as far as you can drive in. T-Mobile service works and at&t