Trailhead:
Murdock Basin is off of the Mirror Lake Highway Road in the Uinta National Foresteast out of Kamas. It is 70 miles from the Salt Lake Valley. To get there from the Salt Lake Valley, Take I-80 east, up Parleys Canyon. At the Silver Creek Junction take Highway 40 south. At the Keetly Junction (second Exit) go east on Highway 248 to Kamas. At the stop light in Kamas turn left on Main Street. Turn right at the next stop light on Center Street (Highway 150). Travel east on Highway 150 for 21 miles. You will see the Murdock Basin Turn off to the right. The road is paved for the first 200 yards across the bridge over the Provo River. The road then turns to dirt. It is about 1.5 miles to the trail head parking. Before the trail head there is a fork to the left that goes to Broadhead Meadows. There is a restroom and parking at the trailhead.
There are two main riding areas in Murdock Basin, the Murdock Road east of the trailhead and the Broadhead Meadows area. These are both “ROCKY”.
East from the trailhead on the Murdock Road you have a group of lakes with fish in them, which you can drive your ATV to within a few 100 feet of them. There are also some dead end roads and two loop trails. There are two ATV width trails River Run and Drop Off. The road is rocky and offers beautiful vistas and lakes. The last lake on the road has water lilies in it. The road at the very end turns into the River Run trail and loops around and connects at about the Marshall Lake Turn off. The other loop trail Drop Off comes out at the trailhead; it is steep and is a rock crawlers dream.
There is also a road down to the Duchesne River, where there is a beautiful waterfall and the start of the Duchesne Tunnel. You can also fish the Duchesne River. This road is also very rocky.
The turn off to the Broadhead Meadows which has two loop trails that are very rocky. One is called Broadhead Loop and the other is Ritter Loop below.
There is also a road that connects to Highway 150 just below Trial Lake. On the Ritter Loop you will go past Lost Lake which has fish in it.
This trail also goes by some old saw mill areas and there are also some very rocky sections. The Broadhead Loop Trail is also very rocky and it is slow rock crawling for miles.