Cinder Hills OHV Flagstaff Arizona

[JESSE A]

Off roading our tow rig is one of our favorite past times! Camping near the Cinder Hills OHV area, we head out for a weekend trail ride. Flagstaff Arizona is a great area if you love full time RV living!
Cinder Hills OHV area is just outside Flagstaff, AZ. There are many volcanic cinder cones and craters in the area, including Sunset Crater National Monument. The combination of ponderosa pine forest and volcanic sand dunes make the area incredibly unique and like nothing we have seen before. Our tow rig is built for this, with aftermarket Carli suspension, King shocks and 35" tires. It just keeps on ticking!.


A video to go along with the photos.

 

[ZMagic97]

Looks like fun! Was the area crowded off road around Flagstaff?

 

[Peneumbra2]

Seems like there's a lot of visitors in town this week...

 

[ZMagic97]

Seems like there's a lot of visitors in town this week...

I don't doubt it.

 

[SDDiver5]

Damn I miss living in Flag. Went to school there. Loved going to cinder hills!

 

[Oilbrnr]

There are about four days a year that it is not windy in that area.

You guys missed one of those four.

 

[WeLikeCamping]

It's really a nice area, but it seems like it's also 24x7 OHV activity. Also the cinders are really hard on tires, but it's one of those places where you have to visit at least once.

 

[JESSE A]

Looks like fun! Was the area crowded off road around Flagstaff?

It was a great time, the Cinders were fairly busy, still lots of place to camp though!

 

[JESSE A]

It's really a nice area, but it seems like it's also 24x7 OHV activity. Also the cinders are really hard on tires, but it's one of those places where you have to visit at least once.

Yeah exactly, it was fun. Luckily we were camping across the road, way less busy!

 

[AbleGuy]

It's really a nice area, but it seems like it's also 24x7 OHV activity. Also the cinders are really hard on tires, but it's one of those places where you have to visit at least once.

Thx for posting your vids, Jesse. They brought back some fun memories.

This area is a one of the great, uniquely enjoyable parts of accessible Arizona.

When I was at college up there many, many years ago, our school’s ski club made it into the current Warren Miller film (“Steep and Deep“ I think it was) with footage of us schussing down those steep, dry abrasive cinder hills. It certainly thrashed the bottoms of the old rental return skis we were using, and it also trashed several of the downhillers after very nasty falls. The insane homemade protective gear some of the participants wore made them look like rejects from a Mad Max movie casting call.

But the crazy fun was all well worth it. IIRC, one guy had an old Landcruiser with a swapped Chevy short block powering it, and it had as many as 6-8 kids hanging off of its sides as he labored up to the top of the hill in it, using it as a substitute for a chair lift. We had the whole place to ourselves that weekend as this area was relatively undiscovered back then.

 

[Peneumbra2]

We'd be glad to send anyone a small bag of cinders, to use as you see fit. Sort of like a virtual trip to Cinder Hills, no?