Mojave Overland covers life beyond the pavement — trail reports from canyons and dry lakebeds, gear reviews from people who actually use the stuff, ghost towns still standing in the Mojave heat, and Jeep builds in various states of completion. This is what we write about, because it’s what we run.
Every write-up starts the same way — pack the Jeep, go, come back, and put it into words. No editorial calendar dictating what’s next, just wherever the last trip pointed and whatever question came up on the trail.
Our territory is the Desert Southwest — the four-state stretch of sand, rock, and sky that most people drive through at 80 mph on the interstate. We take the other roads. The ones that aren’t on Google Maps, that require airing down, that dead-end at a mine shaft or a canyon rim with a view that makes the drive worth every rattle.
California’s Mojave, the Nevada basin, the Arizona high desert, the red rock country of southern Utah — this is the ground we cover. Specifically and without apology.
What We Cover
The Rig
The vehicle behind most of these miles is a Jeep JKU Wrangler — silver, lifted, and perpetually mid-build. It started stock. It doesn’t look that way anymore. The build log lives in the Mods & Builds section, updated whenever something gets bolted on, broken, or replaced.
Why We Write It Down
Every trip generates notes — waypoints, elevation changes, what the trail looked like after last winter’s rain, which campsite had the better view. For a long time those notes stayed in a notebook. This site is where they live now. If you’re planning a run through the same country, something on here might save you a turn-around.
No Byline, On Purpose
Every article on this site comes from the same person, and there’s no name attached to it — deliberately. Fifteen years of runs came before this site did: White Rim in Canyonlands, long stretches of the Mojave National Preserve, Hamilton, Nevada more than once. None of that needs a name attached to be true. What matters here is whether the gear held up, whether the route was worth the fuel, and whether the write-up gets you there and back the way it says it will.
Questions, trip reports of your own, or corrections to anything we got wrong — reach out through the contact page. We read everything.