@corgily I've done a decent amount of four-wheeling not only in Jeeps but in trucks also figured this would be a good place to start for my wife and get her broken into it .I run heavy equipment so most days I'm four-wheeling anyway
I just wanted to say thank you for your videos. They really have been really helpful for my wife and I planning our last 2 trips to VA. Thanks to you we were well prepared and knew what to expect at Flagpole Knob and Peter’s Mill Run and camping in the area. Your videos prevented us from making pretty big planning errors on those trips. It was really nice having a good idea where to look for camp or getting lost on an atv trail
Thank you for a great video. I'd been thinking of coming down from South Jersey to do this ride. I'd tried watching some RUclips videos but so many people think they're rock stars. You channel is a welcome change. Your calm, professional, well-spoken style is much appreciated. Thank you for that as well. I'm subscribed & watching as often as I can while dreaming of when i can ride down! Great job!
Great way to get your feet wet and break in your stock 4x4. There are some well placed obstacles that allow you to take an alternate more difficult line for cool photos. Probably a 2ish hour trail if you don’t stop anywhere very long.
just did this in a stock 2012 forester 5MT w/wildpeak tires from north to south. This trail is NOT EASY for crossovers. There is one very difficult obstacle at the end where you will bottom out unless you drive super close to the left dropoff (if you have a crossover). Stock Crosstrek/Forester is the bare minimum for this trail.
You don’t have to have an expensive Jeep to get out and have fun, I have done this trail twice. I bought a 5,000$ four wheeler to do things like this. Nothing wrong with going Jeeping at all, but I feel like I had just as much fun as they did.
I did this trail last year with snow ❄️ on it. At 16:29 the Jeep club I went with did go up that obstacle, they said it was ok. The snow made it a little more fun and interesting at a couple of the shelf road spots as we around the top. We did it the opposite direction.
1:40 rather than go to the gas station if you go 100 yards down and make a left on Shenandoah Ave you can go to the USFS ranger station for the entire park at 95 Railroad Ave Edinburg VA and not only get your permit but you can get current info on the trail conditions.
Great video! Just subscribed to your channel. Did you have to air-down your tires? My wife and I will be in the area at the end of April and I'm trying to convince her that we should drive this trail in "her" Jeep Wrangler.
I've looked at many of your videos and my brother and I did Peters Mill last year in his Subaru Forrester, with a 1" lift and a full set of skid plates. I've also looked at many videos of the Union Springs side of Flag Pole Knob and even though, I now have a Bronco Sport Badlands, with a 2" lift, I'm not ready to try Union Springs. Are any of the Green trails at Rausch or AOAA less difficult, than Union and, if so, can you tell me which trails, might be the easiest? Most interested in AOAA, as a Bronco Nation group is going there, in the spring.
Thanks for sharing this. You think a stock Grand Cherokee could make it? We have done a few trails at Windrock and a couple of those we probably shouldn't have but we made it through like G1.
No, i would not recommend a stock on crawl daddy, but probably dueable if you know what your doing. we had a TJ on 33s do it with open diffs with us when we did it.
Buddy we just did this trail yesterday .. going south to north is cheating lol its just basically all drop offs going that way .. ya need to do it north to south where ya have to climb those obsticals , way harder that way… this one guy made a video, he is like yea i just did the peters mill trail whole way in 2wd .. i just laughed yea the easy way you aint doing it north to south in 2wd ,, next time do the trail the opposite direction it is way more fun and challenging… at 13:04 in your video is one of the obsticals that is more challenging going the other way ..
myself and a few friends are doing this trail tomorrow. Can you give an idea of where the north side starts? I've seen a few vids now of folks who have said N to S is more fun.
@@philipwhatley6742 i came from PA and our GPS automatically took us to the north entrance,, then we finish turned around and went up from south to north .. yes north to south is way better and more challenging for sure ya got some good technical climbs instead of just driving down them all which is what ya get going south to north and is boring lol…
yea all the hard obstacles are near the south entrance. If you go south to north you go up the easy/moderate obstacles and go down the hardest obstacle at 13:04 and if you go north to south you have to go up the hardest obstacle and down the easy/moderate ones. I did this north to south in a stock 2012 forester 5MT and it was hard because no low range and not much ground clearance
Always great to see a trail I have not been on.
I realize I am late to see this trial review...best review I have seen in a while.. thank you
Nice video ... I'm looking to do Peter Mill for my first badge trail
You’ll have fun !
@corgily I've done a decent amount of four-wheeling not only in Jeeps but in trucks also figured this would be a good place to start for my wife and get her broken into it .I run heavy equipment so most days I'm four-wheeling anyway
I just wanted to say thank you for your videos. They really have been really helpful for my wife and I planning our last 2 trips to VA. Thanks to you we were well prepared and knew what to expect at Flagpole Knob and Peter’s Mill Run and camping in the area. Your videos prevented us from making pretty big planning errors on those trips. It was really nice having a good idea where to look for camp or getting lost on an atv trail
Thank you for a great video. I'd been thinking of coming down from South Jersey to do this ride. I'd tried watching some RUclips videos but so many people think they're rock stars. You channel is a welcome change. Your calm, professional, well-spoken style is much appreciated. Thank you for that as well. I'm subscribed & watching as often as I can while dreaming of when i can ride down! Great job!
This is a great introduction to Peters Mill! Looking forward to hitting it on my way north from NC.
Great way to get your feet wet and break in your stock 4x4. There are some well placed obstacles that allow you to take an alternate more difficult line for cool photos.
Probably a 2ish hour trail if you don’t stop anywhere very long.
Yup! great place for new people, and they get a badge and letter from jeep. so cool :)
Thanks for taking the time to do this. I'm on my way up there in July.
just did this in a stock 2012 forester 5MT w/wildpeak tires from north to south. This trail is NOT EASY for crossovers. There is one very difficult obstacle at the end where you will bottom out unless you drive super close to the left dropoff (if you have a crossover). Stock Crosstrek/Forester is the bare minimum for this trail.
Pretty extensive coverage, thanks man! Gotta hit it, just for the badge ;)
Nice job on the video, Nathan! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
Great video. Nice looking trail. Peace and Safe Travels
Love seeing you adventures. thank you for sharing
Thanks! Grace loves them too.
Loved this video. Duane is getting hooked on jeeps. You aren’t helping me any lol.
They are so much fun! No matter what your doing you can find some fun!
You can remind him what they stand for. JEEP: Just Empty Each Pocket
You don’t have to have an expensive Jeep to get out and have fun, I have done this trail twice. I bought a 5,000$ four wheeler to do things like this. Nothing wrong with going Jeeping at all, but I feel like I had just as much fun as they did.
I did this trail last year with snow ❄️ on it. At 16:29 the Jeep club I went with did go up that obstacle, they said it was ok. The snow made it a little more fun and interesting at a couple of the shelf road spots as we around the top. We did it the opposite direction.
Sure, I'm just saying beginners shouldnt do dumb stuff especially alone :)
@@corgily so true, didn’t realize till your snow video you were only a couple hours away, for some reason I thought you were out of Pa
@@Sandppy our seasonal camp site is in pa near rausch and aoaa. So lots of pa videos
@@corgily cool
I am going to this trail to get my badge this upcoming Saturday 9/24/22. Can’t wait for it.
Thanks - very detailed "walk through".
New Sub here, awesome video, thanks for taking the time to share! You helped me discover a new place to motocamp. Stay safe!
1:40 rather than go to the gas station if you go 100 yards down and make a left on Shenandoah Ave you can go to the USFS ranger station for the entire park at 95 Railroad Ave Edinburg VA and not only get your permit but you can get current info on the trail conditions.
Another great adventure 🤙
Thanks!
Thanks for the vid fam!
Nice video! You ever think about organizing a group trip up to these trails?
Did this trail in my lifted Volvo wagon
Great video! Just subscribed to your channel. Did you have to air-down your tires? My wife and I will be in the area at the end of April and I'm trying to convince her that we should drive this trail in "her" Jeep Wrangler.
up to you its super ez
I’m going to take my stock 2wd frontier on this trail… I’ll let you know how it goes
I may have missed this but did you even air down ....great video
Did not bother with airing down
did the trail in a hyundai santa cruz. Came with a cost.
I've looked at many of your videos and my brother and I did Peters Mill last year in his Subaru Forrester, with a 1" lift and a full set of skid plates. I've also looked at many videos of the Union Springs side of Flag Pole Knob and even though, I now have a Bronco Sport Badlands, with a 2" lift, I'm not ready to try Union Springs. Are any of the Green trails at Rausch or AOAA less difficult, than Union and, if so, can you tell me which trails, might be the easiest? Most interested in AOAA, as a Bronco Nation group is going there, in the spring.
Where do you get the badge? I've done Peters Mill several times, same for Potts Never could find the badge vending machine at the end.
Thanks for sharing this. You think a stock Grand Cherokee could make it? We have done a few trails at Windrock and a couple of those we probably shouldn't have but we made it through like G1.
Great video. Would a Ford Raptor fit through those gates?
Where do you get the badge? I must have missed it.
Did you complete Crawl Daddy with a stock Gladiator? Thinking about doing it with mine.
No, i would not recommend a stock on crawl daddy, but probably dueable if you know what your doing. we had a TJ on 33s do it with open diffs with us when we did it.
Any fishing spot there?
hey, great video. Did you air down the tires?
Normally I would but for Peters mill it was so easy I just skipped airing down
@@corgily Thanks, I will be taking my 2023 rubicon with XR next Sunday
@@corgily like you mentioned it was an easy trail. You think I would need to disconnect the sway bar at any time? This is my first jeep btw haha
How close to DC is this
Do you think a 2wd Jeep could make it through? Traction boards and a buddy of course lol
Yes
@@corgily thanks!
I mean how did you get 15M R0BUX!
Buddy we just did this trail yesterday .. going south to north is cheating lol its just basically all drop offs going that way .. ya need to do it north to south where ya have to climb those obsticals , way harder that way… this one guy made a video, he is like yea i just did the peters mill trail whole way in 2wd .. i just laughed yea the easy way you aint doing it north to south in 2wd ,, next time do the trail the opposite direction it is way more fun and challenging… at 13:04 in your video is one of the obsticals that is more challenging going the other way ..
myself and a few friends are doing this trail tomorrow. Can you give an idea of where the north side starts? I've seen a few vids now of folks who have said N to S is more fun.
@@philipwhatley6742 i came from PA and our GPS automatically took us to the north entrance,, then we finish turned around and went up from south to north .. yes north to south is way better and more challenging for sure ya got some good technical climbs instead of just driving down them all which is what ya get going south to north and is boring lol…
yea all the hard obstacles are near the south entrance. If you go south to north you go up the easy/moderate obstacles and go down the hardest obstacle at 13:04 and if you go north to south you have to go up the hardest obstacle and down the easy/moderate ones.
I did this north to south in a stock 2012 forester 5MT and it was hard because no low range and not much ground clearance