Fields-Denio Alvord Desert Access

Glad to have seen this desert once in my life, honestly probably wouldn’t come back again though. It’s about 8 hours from Portland, and the last hour (pulling a trailer) was on a gravel road (in good shape though) but still annoying and long. There was hardly anyone out there on the desert which was really nice. It got into the 90s during the day and probably didn’t drop below 66 degrees at night. The wind REALLY hit us hard as soon as the sun went down, which rattled our trailer like crazy and got everything insanely dusty. Be prepared to be cleaning everything for a week to come!

Awesome overnight spot with a large flat desert with solid driving surface. It has a vault toilet at the access point. Beautiful scenery surrounding the desert.

The Frog Springs access turn to the desert is about 8 miles of gravel washboard from 205 after about ten miles of pavement.

From the pit toilets it’s only about 100 yards onto the desert but 50’ of it is very rutted and our 28’ three inch lifted Airstream barely cleared. We were too late to access through the Hot Springs but happily paid $10 to leave that direction.

Got really windy at 10PM and then mellowed out.

Other than having to drive up the washboard road, it was a great location to stay at and easy access for walking, biking, or truck access. It was a too rutted and sloped for my liking to take the 24’ trailer.