Moab Easter Jeep Safari

For those approaching the 60th Easter Jeep Safari from the perspective of trail selection rather than logistics, the nine-day event from March 28 through April 5, 2026, offers a curated menu of Moab’s most iconic off-road routes structured across a difficulty spectrum that accommodates a well-equipped stock 4×4 at one end and a seriously modified purpose-built crawler at the other. The Red Rock 4-Wheelers, who have managed the event since the early 1980s, maintain the trail roster with the expertise of a club that has been navigating this terrain since long before the first guided day-tripper arrived in Moab’s backcountry. Trails include the legendary Hell’s Revenge slickrock route, the Fins and Things sandstone formation traverse, and routes that cross terrain originally surveyed by uranium prospectors in the 1950s whose mining roads became the Easter Jeep Safari’s foundational trail inventory.

Trail Selection: Matching Vehicle to Route

Every registered participant receives the annual Easter Jeep Safari magazine, which provides the current year’s trail roster with difficulty ratings, terrain descriptions, departure locations, and timing. Trail registration fills sequentially from the most popular routes, and the 60th anniversary year is expected to generate registration pressure on high-demand trails earlier than previous editions. Trails depart from multiple locations across the Moab area rather than a single staging point, requiring participants to navigate to each trail’s designated starting coordinates on the morning of their run. The event runs through Easter Sunday, April 5, with Big Saturday (April 4) and Easter Sunday as the two highest-attendance trail days of the nine-day programme.

Good to Know: Every vehicle requires a metal top or roll bar and current street-legal registration from its home state. Food and non-alcoholic beverages for each day-long trail are the participant’s full responsibility. Recovery gear, including a tow strap, high-lift jack, and traction boards, is strongly recommended for any trail rated moderate or above. Cancellations received in writing before March 21, 2026, receive a full refund minus a $15 fee; after March 18, fees are forfeited. Register through the Red Rock 4-Wheelers website at rr4w.com.

Arches National Park: The Day When the Trails Rest

For participants who register for fewer than nine trail days, the non-trail time in Moab offers one of the most concentrated national park experiences in the American Southwest. Arches National Park, three kilometres north of Moab on US-191, contains more than 2,000 documented natural stone arches within 119 square miles, including Delicate Arch, the most photographed sandstone formation in Utah and the image that appears on the state’s licence plates. The hike to Delicate Arch covers 4.8 kilometres round-trip over slickrock and packed trail with 146 metres of elevation gain, a round-trip appropriate for most reasonably fit adults and children aged eight and older. The Windows Section of the park, accessible by paved road from the visitor centre, groups six major arches within a two-kilometre walkable loop that families with younger children can complete in under two hours without technical terrain. For families and participants staying through the full Safari window, Lake.com lists the Utah County Lake View Retreat as a vacation rental base in the greater Utah canyon country corridor.