Dust Bowl - Cougar Buttes

Dust Bowl is a short, popular OHV strip, sitting in this small section of the Johnson Valley OHV Recreation Area known as Cougar Buttes in Lucerne Valley, California. Cougar Buttes is full of open desert trails ranging from easy, soft sand, to technical, rocky desert canyons. Dust Bowl is one of the busier RV camping, ATV, dirt bike, and side-by-side riding areas in the Buttes. On most weekends you’ll find continuous OHV traffic through this strip, creating the dust bowl this trail is named for. If you like crowds, this might be your spot. Otherwise, Dust Bowl might just be a necessary connector to a quieter area of Cougar Buttes.