
06/23/2025
August 2025 – Summer Expedition & 4WD Training (EXP-4WD) – Friday, August 1st to Sunday, August 3rd – New Mexico Backcountry Training Traversal
Direct message NMBR for details and registration. Summer Expedition & 4WD Training (EXP-4WD) information link in comments.
This August, NMBR will be providing an intensive four-wheel drive and expedition/overlanding skills overview and training program that will cover a host of subjects including (but not limited to) driving techniques and terrain negotiation, vehicle maintenance and preservation, vehicle recovery techniques, and overland kit assembly. The in-field program is primarily geared towards beginner and intermediate level overland enthusiasts who are looking to jump-start or boost their knowledge, experience, and confidence levels. For advanced skill level overlanders, NMBR’s EXP-4WD Training provides a comprehensive refresher or brush-up course that will [undoubtedly] provide new tips and tricks. New Mexico Black Range has provided this training course to a multitude of four-wheel drive and overland enthusiasts, companies, and government agencies including U.S. Forest Service.
New Mexico Black Range's three day in-field program will unfold during a 125-mile overland traverse of the rugged and remote 3.3-million-acre Gila National Forest. The backdrop for NMBR’s EXP-4WD Training route will include a diverse range of scenery including grassland, chaparral, canyon bottoms, and mountainous forests with elevations ranging from 4,375 to 9,000-feet. Areas of exploration will include the Gila National Forest’s Black Range, Gila West, and Gila North. Road types and conditions will include washboards, two tracks, primitive non-maintained, graded, mountain shelf, dirt byway and (least of all) pavement.
All nights will include camping and enjoying the company of fellow overlanders, deep in the backcountry. For those that join in, the only guarantee is that they will conclude their adventure with strengthened skills, new friends, dirty rigs, big smiles, and an accomplishment that will make their fellow overlanders envious.