Overlanding the Sonoran Desert - Kofa Pioneer Trail
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2021
- The Kofa Wildlife Refuge consists of 665,000 acres of desert wilderness that was originally set aside as a preserve for the Desert Bighorn Sheep that live there. The Kofa Pioneer trail is a 243 mile overland route in the beautiful Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona. The video route guide complements our online route guides, so that users can get a better idea of what to expect when they hit the trail.
You can find the Kofa Pioneer Trail route guide, along with dozens of other curated route guides at www.OverlandTrailGuides.com
All of our overland route guides feature route info, extensive route guides, maps, and gpx files.
Great video! About the Cholla cactus (aka teddy bear cactus), a great tool to keep on hand in the Sonoran desert is a cheap, plastic comb (large tooth comb). Also, it's pronounced "choy-a". 🙂
Great video! So much so, I'm putting KOFA on my bucket list. Thank you.
Very nice video, I felt as if I was along on that wonderful journey.
The SW desert is definitely on the bucket list for 2022.
Quality work Ben, congratulations
Love the channel! Just did the King Valley entrance section and camped a couple of nights in McPherson pass area. It was beautiful.
Great videos to compliment your articles. Thanks!!
Thanks for putting the work in for this great video! I'm sure it's well appreciated by many watching it, too.
Great video! This is in my backyard, I am definitely checking this area out. There is a lot to see out there it looks like.
Nice work Ben, I enjoyed the content, especially when u showed the Map Overlays, really helped get a sense of the place. At about 11:18, fun video of John navigating a rough section, no wonder he wanted to get body armor.
Really well done video. Thank you!
Looks amazing, inspired to go!
This looks like a rad area!
Cool video I am itching to do one of these.
Skull rock looks so cool
Kofa wilderness experienced several nights of flash floods during the monsoon season Aug/Sept 2022. Castle Domes Mine Rd a commonly used trail washed away leaving the terrain and road unrecognizable a number of miles back. It was very hard to follow using my GPS and drove off track several times. I ended up turning around, before entering one of the last narrow washes. It could have very well been washed out and impassable.
thanks for the udpate. Do you have the approximate coordinates that is impacted by the summer storms?
@@OverlandTrailGuides man this flood messed up many parts! Let me know if you found any info 🙏🙏
Snorkels are amazing for keeping the dust out. I have one on my Skoolie. Funny how people think they are for fording creeks or rivers.
The backroad passing wilbanks and hoodoo definitely is way more rocky this year from last year
We camped in Queen Canyon close by the same rocky cave ;-)
WOW !
Tom T
Looks like a fun trip! Thank you for taking us along with you. What camera(s) are you shooting with? The camera you use to film hand held looks to have a global shutter, what kind is it?
On this trip, just a GoPro Hero8 and my pixel 5, but in the past I have utilized an old canon DSLR for mostly panning shots. The Gopro + pixel are super easy to jump out of the rig and capture quick video, and quite honestly, the pixel captures some really nice and sharp video without the fisheye affect you get from the wide lens on the Hero.
@@OverlandTrailGuides The pans are not choppy, that's why I asked. Thanks for getting back to me.
loved the video, do you think pulling a small 5x8 Tear Drop trailer threw the entire trail would any trouble? If so, what would you recommend?
You should be fine as long as your trailer has decent clearance, but please note the section down by the Castle Dome mountains was hit hard by this year's Monsoon season. I'd check with FWS on the condition of the trails in the southern section of Kofa.
Please respect wildlife and drone requirements by not flying drones in the Wildlife Preserver.
All of the drone shots are outside of Kofa wilderness on BLM land where drones are permitted. If drones were permitted in Kofa, we would've used it a lot more.
@@OverlandTrailGuides thank you for the clarification. Happy trails!