Places to wheel during the snowy season

[Jeep450r]

Where are some good places to wheel at during winter? Im not talkin about snow wheeling.... I want to wheel rocks and such. Hollister is getting boring and carnegie is closing down (was pointless anyways), slick rock and deer valley are snowed in, id assume the rubicon and fordyce are snowed too...

Im located in the East Bay and would like to keep it within a reasonable distance. ~3 hours or so.

Im checking out Prarie City thursday I think... but it doesnt look like theres much there.

 

[JRW7072009]

I have been told Lake Pillsbury has some pretty good snow wheeling. I am going to try and get up there around the 1st of the year.
http://maps.google.com/maps?source=...8&hq=Pillsbury&hnear=Lake,+California&split=1

 

[Logans91XJ]

Prairie City really doesn't have much at all I was just their and was pretty bored by about an hour after I got their. They have no trails and the place is pretty much flat. The place used to be great but in the last few years it just seems to get smaller.
My Poser Shot this was taken two days ago

Kinda Gives you an Idea of what the place looks like. From this Summer

 

[Alex E]

Pillsbury is cool, stoney ford works too. Its not like hard core wheeling but there is tons of back roads out there and places to explore. Ive been slowly exploring los padres national forest down by San Louis Obispo. Nice thing about national forest is you can pretty much camp and shoot where ever you like. Just make sure to be safe, get a fire permit, and some times they have regulations about how far you can venture from a trail with your truck. One other place that has tons of rocks and sketchy stuff is the desert in nevada, that gets snowy though, BUT they have lots of flash floods and other weather conditions that really turn things over and make it an awesome place to explore. you'd be surprised how much stuff is by the foothills and lower mountain levels of the sierra nevadas like by jackson and what not. tons of places, just look at topographical maps.

 

[Jeep450r]

Are there any places over near Sonora or Groveland?

 

[Alex E]

Yeah sonora has lots of areas, i've gotta look them up but yes there is stuff...its hard because it depends what your looking for too. lots of guys want the rubicon and guys like me like to do the con just to say yeah i've done it and cross it off my list but i just like exploring new areas so not every where i go is hard core...but sh!t still happends and yeah its not all cake walk either. you know whats good, get a northern california atlas gazzeter or they have one for the whole state, just check out all the back roads and national forest and then go check it out! thats the best part is finding places on your own and just going out with a group of buddies and seeing whats out there...atleast for me, thats how i like to do it!