The trouble with getting off at the Stoddard/Bell Mountain exit is that you have to drive in a long ways before you are actually in the Staddard BLM open riding area. Plus, there is a lot of private land in there and the county is cracking down on riding on non-BLM land....you can get a very expensive ticket! The bottom line is that you never will know quite where you are, or if you are on BLM or private property......

It is way simpler to just take the I-15 to Hodge Road exit (a couple exits north of Stoddard/Bell Mountain). Exit to the right, and everything on that side of the freeway is Stoddard open area.

Get a copy of the SB Mountain/Barstow BLM area map: http://www.ctuc.info/

Good idea to go to the BLM office in Barstow and get a set of BLM maps as well. Also available on line, from the BLM web site.

 

wow thanks guys. its kinda late to get maps now. next time i will deff have one. we are leaving in about an hour so i'll try and figure it out as best as possible and thanks for the well wishes.

 

have you looked at el mirage?

we are going this sat.

 

I just wanted to know if anyone has the GPS coordinates for slash X.
Tracy

 

i got the gps #'s from another web site. i've never been there but by google earth it looks like something is there
good luck!

N34 45.605 w117 00.607

 

thanks for the info ill put it in to the GPS and see if we can find it. we want to make the ride from johnson valley we were told by a friend how to get there but i would feel better with the info in my GPS. thanks again. we are going out there this weekend so if anyone has more info on how to get there let me know. thanks!
tracy

 

are you driving from johnson valley? it's highway 247 north about 5 miles before the 15 freeway.

 

we are going to ride there if we can we had a friend out there last wekkend but he took the ride saturday before we got there. we re going to try to find it! we know it is a diffrent powerline rd then the one at is next to johnson valley so we will see what we can do. thanks for the info, we might just drive there. we are going out saturday at about 230 if anyone wants to go with us! its going to be a hot one