Smarts Ranch OHV Road 3N03

in San Bernardino National Forest

The numbers that decide it

Recreation.gov publishes no site-level detail for this campground, so we cannot say what length of rig it takes. Call the managing office before committing to it in a large vehicle.

Site-level detail from Recreation.gov, checked 2026-08-05. Where a field says “not published”, the agency has not published it — it does not mean zero.

Smarts Ranch OHV Road 3N03

This road travels 7.4 miles from State Highway 18 in Cactus Flats into Lone Valley ending at the junction with Arrastre Creek Road 2N02. Important Note: 3N03 from State Highway 38 to the entrance to Cactus Flats OHV Staging Area is street legal vehicles only. Non-street legal vehicles must transported by haul vehicles to the Pinnacles OHV Staging Area. Forest 2N02 is street legal only from the junction of 2N02 of 3N03 west back towards Baldwin Lake.

Before you go

Restrictions

Must have current registration and operating spark arrestor. You are required by the California Vehicle Code to have a spark arrester, maintained and in effective working order, whenever you are operating your OHV on any forest-covered land, brush-covered land, or grass-covered land.

Make it a night on a better road

Byway plans the drive in — real stops, real weather, nothing invented.