The Confusion
Range Trail made Old US 50 and Death Canyon seem like a Los Angeles
freeway on a bad day. Continuing on my drive from Logan Utah to Las
Vegas I has already traversed the Pony Express Trail and played
around on The Sawtooth Mountain Trail and surrounding areas. The
start of the Confusion Range Trail is 47 miles west of Delta which
is the last place to top of the gas tank. The actual trail is
another 50 miles and then you have a choice of heading East 30 miles
or heading West 70 miles to find civilization and hopefully a gas
station that is open. Yet again the JK with it's 300 mile range
makes this an easy cruise. (Provided you don't get lost and you
don't need 4WD).
The trail
certainly is lonely, just dead cows and buzzards. When you finally
do reach signs of life you are greeted with Keep Out signs and
ranchers with a less than pleasant disposition. They didn't wave,
say hi, just snarled and walked away. Probably why it is called the
Wah Wah Ranch. This whole area is great if you are a rock hound as
there are loads of places to go look for fossils and interesting
rocks. There is not much else to do on this trail except get to the
end although there is the old ghost town of Ibex but there is really
not much left to see. It is interesting to be 60 miles from a living
sole and wonder if. Still something has to feed the buzzards! I did
not see a single living animal the whole trail which could be a
result of the hundreds of empty shell casings or just because it is
just an uninviting place to live. Still given a choice of a highway
or this trail, take the trail, just make sure you have a good map, a
GPS and plenty of fuel and water. It is a trail worth doing once.
