Hike Scrub Benchmark and Tahoari Peak Beaver Dam Wash National Conservation Area, UT

Directions

Route Map

Download GPX

Scrub Benchmark and Tahoari Peak GPX Track

I need to offset my substantial website costs somehow! You can download a hike/drive GPX to assist you here. Before sharing my GPX tracks with others, please remember my site is otherwise a free resource.

Add to Cart

View Cart

After getting my COVID-19 vaccine and unexpectedly feeling like garbage, I wanted a lighter hike and this fit the bill. While not the most exciting, I wanted to check out one of the bigger peaks in Beaver Dam National Conservation Area, Scrub Bunchmark. A road leads to the summit, so in order to not just make this a drive-up, I included a loop to Tahoari Peak, a smaller peak along the ridge to the south. Sedans could make it to the start of the service road here (37.01599, -113.81701), but the road has a couple of bad spots, and then only 4WD can make it up this very steep incline here (37.03750, -113.81612). Having to hike this adds 400 vertical to the hike.

I parked at a gate. You can drive around this gate, but it felt like a good spot to start the loop. I started by hiking up the road to the summit of Scrub Benchmark. Two ATVs and a service car passed me, so I can't say it's exactly a remote experience. I continued west along the ridge and descended on the grassy slope to the south all the way to Tahoari Peak. Aside from some light rockiness, it was easy terrain. From Tahoari Peak, I dropped to the east into a drainage below and ascended a couple hundred feet back to the gate where my car was.

PEAKS ON HIKE
Elevation (ft) / Prominence (ft)

Peaks on hike

Elevation

Prominence

Scrub Benchmark

6786 ft

2065 rise

Tahoari Peak

6295 ft

315 rise

Hire me or show me some love!

Hire/refer me as a web developer or send me a few bucks if you find my site useful. I'm not sponsored, so all fees are out-of-pocket and my time preparing trip reports is unpaid. I really appreciate it!

I parked at this gate. You can drive around it, but it felt like the best spot to make this hike a loop.

View back toward the gate.

Steep road walk.

Tahoari Peak visible top right.

Road walk.

Another shot back toward Tahoari Peak, higher up

Close-up at the road, cool desert scenery in the distance.

Scrub Benchmark ahead.

Scrub Benchmark summit. The road wraps to the left of the peak before ascending to the summit.

Scrub Benchmark.

Summit view toward West Mountain Peak.

Summit view toward Signal Peak.

I continued along the west, Tahoari Peak visible on the far left.

Descending to Tahoari Peak.

Tahoari Peak ahead.

Along the ridgeline.

View back toward Scrub Benchmark, center top.

Tahoari Peak is the bump on the left.

Tahoari Peak ahead.

Tahoari Peak, view toward the Mormon Mountains.

Tahoari Peak view toward Scrub Benchmark.

View toward the road leading to Scrub Benchmark. I descended the slope and re-ascended on the other side of the drainage below.

View back toward Tahoari Peak from my parking spot.

Hire me or show me some love!

Hire/refer me as a web developer or send me a few bucks if you find my site useful. I’m not sponsored, so all fees are out-of-pocket and my time preparing trip reports is unpaid. I really appreciate it!