Cross Bar Ranch Off-road Park

Cross Bar Ranch is known for its tight and rocky trails through the scenic wooded areas. There are challenging climbs and drop downs to satisfy every skill and build level. There are lots of great places for camping and RV’s too. The on-site food truck has a wide selection of delicious meals and snacks available at reasonable prices. Motorcycles and side by sides are welcome too.

This was my first time there and it was a blast. I checked in with a very nice young man who told me more about the park and some of the better trails for my full sized rig, which is a RAM TRX on 37s and a lift. The TRX has been offroad a bunch but mainly in the Ouachitas which are beautiful and we love going there. Davis Oklahoma and the Arbuckle Mountains are not nearly as scenic as the Ouachitas but this was a day trip and only 2 hours from Fort Worth. It was a Wednesday when I went and I only saw one other vehicle the entire day. My goal was to stay on the Prarie but of course, once I saw the Roller Coaster, all bets were off and I tried about everything I could find. Somewhere around the Lookout and Deadmans Slide, I got into the real stuff. I had never had the truck on rock gardens like I was doing on this section. All in all the truck impressed me, if I could find the line, it could crawl it. By the end of the day, I was getting tired and inadvertently got on some very narrow trails, mind you, the TRX is 14" wider than a Wrangler, and I got really scratched up and was having a little trouble getting back out. I had read about poor signage but that wasn't the case. The trails are marked better than I am used to but the issue is that the trail names are not really on the GPS maps. I tried using the Polaris map but I am really used to ONX offroad and it was only partially marked. If someone would load the Polaris raw file into ONX , it would be a game changer since users would have the ability to update and define the trails. All in all, this was a fun trail that seems to be ran very well. As for me, some of the scratches came out of my truck and a couple of weeks later, we purchased a Wrangler. This country boy knows how to learn a lesson.