4WD Backcountry Adventure Tours
Off-Road Safety Academy invites you to explore the remote backcountry with like-minded vehicle-supported adventurers.
Why Choose Off-Road Safety Academy
Worry Less – Explore More
Off-Road Safety Academy Adventure Tours help you explore the remote backcountry comfortably and enjoyably by:
1) Building community with other like-minded vehicle-supported adventurers. Our campfire gatherings are epic!
2) Being fully invested in making YOUR adventure fun.
3) Taking you to the most scenic locations and camping sites.
4) Providing you with 4WD instruction or guidance on the tour. Knowing your tour leader is the only 4WD Instructor in the USA that has written three complete “how-to” books for vehicle supported adventurers.
5) Completely knowing the area - the history, geology, biology, and most scenic trails perfect for your vehicle.
6) Knowing your tour leader is a Wilderness First Aid Instructor that carries both a robust first aid kit and an Automated External Defibrillator on every tour.
7) Carrying emergency satellite communicators and having emergency contacts should a vehicle breakdown or an injury/illness occurs.
8) Being a permitted outfitter and 4WD tour guide within the BLM and National Park public lands.
9) Knowing your tour leader is a TreadLightly Master Tread Trainer and will help you off-road adhering to important environmental principles.
Purchase & Reserve Your Tour Spots
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General TOUR INFORMATION
Come along and see new sights, camp in new locations, meet new friends, build community, learn how to off-road safely, and relax. Each tour includes unique evening campfire discussions on a variety of 4WD driving and exploring topics. Campfires are also your opportunity to tell your adventure stories.
Off-Road Safety Academy is a permitted BLM and National Park Outfitter and Guide.
Off-Road Safety Academy’s 4WD Adventure Tours are open to anyone with a 4WD vehicle. Some tours are "overlanding-style,” meaning we camp at a different location each night and you must be self-reliant with food, shelter, water, toilet, etc. "Basecamp-style" tours mean we camp at the same location each night. Basecamp tours explore more challenging trails and are better suited for short wheelbase 4WD vehicles like Jeeps, Land Rovers, and 4Runners. If you tow your 4WD vehicle behind your motorhome or truck, the Basecamp Adventure Tours may be best suited to your style of off-roading.
All tours are designed to introduce you to a new area, trail, or adventure. You can relax as Off-Road Safety Academy will professionally take care of all the navigation, trail pre-running, finding approved camping locations, emergency communication, first aid, and possible problems along the way. Off-Road Safety Academy's tours prepare you to return to the area for further exploration on your own. These are group tours so you have fun traveling with like-minded adventurers. Off-Road Safety Academy is an official National Park and BLM permitted guide and outfitter.
Prior to signing up for the tours, carefully read on TicketLeap the Terms & Conditions associated with these tours.
Last year, most tours sold out in a few days after posting. Act quickly to assure your spot.
Cost for each tour is PER VEHICLE (not per person). You may bring as many people along on a tour as you have legal seatbelts.
2025 Backcountry Adventure Tour Details
Death Valley Overland Adventure Tour
November 20-23, 2025
Cost Per Vehicle: $799.00
Death Valley is iconic, fabulously scenic and remote. Three days and three nights of overlanding exploring the largest National Park in the lower 48 States. Over 80-percent of this beautiful park can’t be seen from the pavement – you have to venture off-road. Off-Road Safety Academy takes you to the best sights. Sand dunes, canyons, hot springs, playas, craters, mines, and high-altitude trails are all part of this adventure tour. This tour visits Saline Valley, Hunter Mountain, Hidden Valley, Tea Kettle Junction, Racetrack, and Ubehebe Crater.
This is an overlanding-style tour for 4WD vehicles only. You must be self-contained and self-reliant as we camp at a different remote location each night.
A Tour for short Wheelbase Vehicles
Death Valley Miner's Cabin Tour - A Basecamp Adventure Tour
December 4-7, 2025
Cost Per Vehicle: $799.00
Most of the remote backcountry cabins visited on this tour can NOT be found on a map. Someone has to lead you to them. The six cabins you will visit on this tour are special “secret spots” in and around the Death Valley area. Some are Adopt-A-Cabins, carefully nurtured and kept very clean by volunteer groups. Once you learn how to find these wonderful Adopt-A-Cabins, you will want to return to them time and again to stay overnight. All of the cabins visited are historic remnants of the miners that carved out a living in the area.
This Death Valley adventure is for those who either: 1) Tow their 4WD behind a motorhome or truck, 2) Like to basecamp (meaning camp in the same location each night), and/or 3) Like the challenge of a more difficult off-road trail.
This Death Valley adventure tour is only for street-legal 4WD short wheel-based vehicles – Jeeps, Land Rovers, 4Runners, small ½ ton trucks, Broncos, etc. No long wheel-base HD trucks or trucks with campers allowed. Unlike Off-Road Safety Academy's overlanding-style adventure tours, the trails traveled on this tour are a bit more challenging. There will be some rock crawling on this tour.
The tour route includes visiting several remote backcountry miner's cabins, including a visit to Barker Ranch where Charles Manson was apprehended by law enforcement. History at its best!
Your total introduction to baja
Baja's Hidden Heart - An Overlanding Adventure Tour
February 19-27, 2026
Cost Per Vehicle: $1800.00
Off-Road Safety Academy only offers this tour once a year in February. Bring as many passengers as you have legal seat belts. Price includes ONE reserved spot for the whale watching excursion (Additional spots are $70 each)
This exciting eight-night, nine-day adventure tour features a scenic southern route through Baja. You will be driving along the Sea of Cortez, the Pacific Coast, and through the middle of the Baja Peninsula. You will encounter wondrous landscapes, authentic cultural experiences and food, stunning ocean campsites, original Spanish missions, and relaxed evening campfires.
Pet a Grey Whale! On the tour, we will reach the Bay of Conception as our southern-most point. The Grey Whale encounter on Scammon’s Lagoon uses a certified boat operator near the wonderful town of Guerrero Negro.
During our inland wanderings, we will visit a famous Baja cave paintings area. New radiocarbon techniques dates these paintings back 9,000 to 11,000 years, roughly the same time as the end of the first ice age. Experts say that these pictographs are the oldest on the North American Continent.
Travel the historic Mojave Road
Majestic Mojave Road - An Overlanding Backcountry Adventure Tour
March 19-22, 2026
Cost Per Vehicle: $799.00
THIS TOUR IS ALMOST FULL. ACT FAST.
After a three-year pause, Off-Road Safety Academy is again returning to the Mojave National Preserve area. The iconic Mojave Road is an overlanding adventure you simply must do at least once in your life. This tour familiarizes you with the region and implants in you a strong desire to return again and again.
The Mojave Road was first used by Indians to transport goods from the southwest to trade with the Chumash and other coastal tribes. The route later served the cause of westward expansion. Military forts were established along the route to protect key water sources and provide assistance for travelers. This off-road adventure includes 3-nights of remote camping. The tour meets near Laughlin, NV and officially begins at the southern National Preserve boundary. On the third day, the tour officially ends at the northern Preserve boundary near I-15 west of Las Vegas. Specific sites visited along the route include Fort Piute, various petroglyphs, Government Holes, Marl Springs, and the famous lava tube caves.
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