Overview

Wild Horse Valley Road is a well-maintained, 24-mile dirt road that runs between Mail Summit Road (just west of Murphy Gap) in the north with Highway 375 in the south. Wild Horse Valley Road normally is suitable for 2WD vehicles, but it can be muddy.

Running up Wild Horse Valley, the road traverses Great Basin Desert where the dominant vegetation in the valley is Big Sagebrush. In the mountains, the road runs over a low saddle between the Tempiute Range to the west and the Mount Irish Range to the east. In this area, the road runs through Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands. In the south, the road runs down into Mojave Desert Scrub vegetation as it descends towards the highway. The road, therefore, spans the transition zone between the Great Basin Desert and the Mojave Desert.

Presented here are photos of the road southbound. For a detailed description of the road, including maps and GPS waypoints, see Wild Horse Valley Road - Northbound.