The 3-D Trail tours the vicinity of colorful Hidden Canyon and Brink Spring, northwest of Moab. It visits the canyon bottom and canyon rim, and, finally, a higher overlook of the area (hence the name 3-D). A few of the hills have been known to challenge stock vehicles, but most of the tour is pleasant, scenic, family four-wheeling. Approximate mileages: 59 total, 28 off highway.

Trail Location:
3-D Trail tours Hidden Canyon and Brink Springs, north of Hwy. 313 and west of Hwy. 191. The trailhead is .14 miles north of Moab on Hwy. 191, near milemarker 141.

Trail GPS Coordinates :
The Moab Area 3-D Trail is located at: Lat: 38° 44' 4.31" / Lon: 109° 47' 4.12"

Trail Scenery:
This canyon country is unlike the Moab Valley with its sheer Wingate Sandstone rimmed cliffs. 3- D visits canyons that are a few hundred feet deep in the smooth, red-and-white layers of Entrada Sandstone, and the slickrock areas are made up of the white layer that caps the Entrada. Vistas are to the north toward the Book Cliffs.

Trail Road Surface:
There are some two track dirt sections, a little slickrock, a sandy and maybe wet washbottom, and some rock/dirt mixtures with a few ledges.

Trail Obstacles:
Not far beyond Courthouse Rock is Airport View Hill where a few stock vehicles that still carry highway tirepressure may try to climb it more than once. Hidden Canyon bottom is very sandy but is usually not difficult. The slickrock fields of Lunar Canyon and upper Brink Canyon are interesting but not steep. The climb out of the upper canyon first encounters The Wall, which looks like a rock wall to the uninitiated but is usually climbed easily by stock vehicles. Just past The Wall is Mean Hill, which climbs about 200 feet in two steep sections with a gentler slope in between. The first steep section has an eroded, low-traction bypass that we would rather avoid because its use is destroying the main trail where they meet. The final climb on Mean Hill looks worse than it is because it is on a "hogback" with a drop-off either right or left, but the sight of it encourages everyone to make a good running start, and it has never given much trouble.