Expect LOTS of big deep potholes

AWD Friendly. Large portions are paved. Biggest threat is potholes which do get quite aggresive in some sections.

Easy drive. AWD friendly. Biggest threat is potholes. Was able to drive it between 30-60km/hr no problem

Good condition. Easily passable. No washouts or significant loose sections. Some clearance may be required for water bars is all. Travelling down to c...

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This section had large deep ...

Steep and loose sections of road to high viewpoint. Was difficult in my Crosstrek on the final straight section due to loose road surface and large ro...

Somewhat degraded is accurate. Loose rock road surface and chunky for sections but no serious erosion. Crosstrek made it up slowly but with little eff...

Rough & steep, loose shot rock in places.

Locked gate at the very start, another closed but unlocked gate at 1km. Gate at the start had a bypass likely passable by moto (but not wide enough fo...

Brand new logging road. Soft in spots but driveable to the end. The Barnes Lake trail takes off at the first southern switchback (1.3 km).

Those short but deep water bars (right from the start) are for 4x4 HC only. A stock Subaru made it to 8.5 km spur but scrapped the bottom multiple tim...

Turned off of the main Lost Creek FSR and drove this road shortly in a Honda CRV maybe only about 200m or less. Some bigger sized rocks started to s...

I only drove it about 400m because that's where I parked to walk the spur road to get up Black Portal Hill. Drove thru 2 water bars in the span of ...

Very good condition, with a new extension that takes off at ~ 1 km. Lots of logging to occur in near future

Rough and steep sections, lots of water bars and loose rocks, overgown in sections. Very cool destination close to Nelson.

Road is in great shape. It's steep and it's rough because it's built from loose blast rock, so I wouldn't want to come up here in 2WD or low clearance...

Very thick alder. No bridges. Road centerline flagging to around S3112. KMs listed on map in reverse.

The upper section of road is graded and maintained as of October 2026