This scenic backway has a gravel surface between the Tucker Rest Area US Hwy 6 and Utah Hwy 264, a distance of 24 miles. It then switches to a rough native surface road suitable for high clearance vehicles for the next 63 miles south to Interstate 70. It affords pleasing views of the valleys below, passing a variety of high mountain settings, including reservoirs, glacial cirques, and spruce-fir and aspen forest. In the La Sal Division of the forest, the southeast area of the forest, travel the La Sal Scenic backway beginning from US191 six miles south of Moab. It winds north over the La Sal mountains through Castle Valley to end at U-128.
Wildlife is abundant, including elk, deer, bear, moose, and beaver.
September is an ideal time to travel these areas to capture the fall colors and glimpses of migratory raptors. The forest provides information at public Visitor Centers in the Monticello Visitor Center, The Moab Interagency Visitor Center and the Castle Country Regional Information Center located in the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum in Price. Information is also available at Stuart Guard Station located in the heart of the Manti Division in Huntington Canyon . Stuart G.S. is open to the public between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Reservations can be made through a 1-800 number found elsewhere in this Internet site and will soon be available to Internet users.