We spent a week at Ruby’s Inn RV Park and Campground near the entrance to Bryce Canyon National Park in October 2023. Ruby’s is a great place to launch from to enjoy some off-road trails in the area!
Location, Location, Location
Ruby’s Inn RV Park and Campground is the closest private, full hookup RV park to the entrance of Bryce Canyon. This is a large RV park with 240+ full-hookup RV sites and countless tent, group, and overflow sites. They even have Teepees you can rent! Be sure to make your reservations early as this place is always busy from what we saw during our 2-week stay.
Ruby’s also boasts their location as a launch point for the many miles of OHV trails and provides printed maps in the office and on-line. We used these maps as a guide, but planned and tracked all of our routes using On X Offroad.
Fuel, Trail Access and Wash
Ruby’s has convenient access to fuel, a car wash (full and self serve, an RV bay too!) and of course access to the trails.
This is my On X map showing those locations.
- Red – fuel (87-91 Octane, Diesel, ice, etc.)
- Blue – car wash
- Green – trail access points
If you’re staying at Ruby’s you can go directly out the main entrance\exit, across the street and get on the gravel trail. Turn left for fuel, turn right for trail access.
If you’re not staying at Ruby’s and are trailering in your OHV there is a decent-sized parking lot you can unload at (marked ‘Gateway’), or continue down the forest service road to many other large areas you can park at (although you may need a permit beyond the parking lot).
You do cross the multi-use trail twice so please be aware!!
We did see a well-worn path on the same side of the road as Ruby’s that leads to the point marked ‘Gateway’ but we never took it. We never did just drive down the road either, although we do have a valid licensed vehicle.
All trails in the area can start and end from this main access point, and we chose different routes through Dave’s Hollow to start our adventures.
Note: we have a 72″ street-legal Can Am Maverick X3 and only looked for full-width trails. We avoided any marked for 50″ machines. So if you have a smaller machine you might have more trail options than we did.
Dave's Hollow Loop
Coming from Ruby’s every route will start on Dave’s Hollow Loop. We chose a different variation each time to give some variety to get to the other trails. Most times you’ll just use it as means to get to East Fork Road where you can access several other trails.
You can download the GPX file by clicking on the map for this track for the waypoints to import into your favorite GPS or routing product, like On X Offroad.
Ruby’s Inn has printed maps available or you can print your own copy here.
Pink Cliffs
The trip to the Pink Cliffs trail ended up being one of our favorites in the area, it was a nice 4-5 hour day which could have easily been made even longer if time permitted.
The great thing about the trails in this area is you can alter the routes for the time you have available. You can stay on the East Fork Road to speed things up a bit, or add an additional loop or ‘side quest’ to extend the day.
Click on the map to download a zip of the KML and GPX file for this route, which can easily be imported into your favorite routing app, like OnX Offroad.
Powell Point
Powell Point was another long, 4-5 hour ride from Ruby’s Inn RV Park and Campground. I had lost the actual tracking from the OnX Offroad App, but was able to extract the GPS information from the GoPro video.
This was a fun ride, lots of variety of trails and roads. The last mile was pretty rough but completely passable in our Can Am X3. Some of it’s narrow, so when you meet someone coming the other direction one of you will need to backup to a passable spot.
The most disappointing part of the trail was the lack of a lookout once on top. We had expected to look back towards Bryce, but if there was a trail to the overview we couldn’t find it. The only trail we found was in the other direction and part of a longer hike.
Summary and Thoughts
These are just a few of the trails we really enjoyed around Bryce Canyon National Park and Ruby’s Inn. There was plenty to choose from, and easily combined to make a short or all-day adventure. In October the weather was perfect and we saw very few other riders out on our adventures.
