Otay Mountain Trailhead — Attraction in Rancho San Diego

From the trail head there is a gate, which was unlocked at the time. If you look at OnX Off-road maps it does state this is a one way but there are CBP up there that travel back and forth so be ready to move over. Like other posts, you need some clearance and 4x4 is helpful. There are some folks who drive quickly up here so be on the look out. Once you get to the top there an other directions you can go and make a day out of it. Just make sure you have fuel, food and some water incase you run into issues. Not much cell service....

San Diego is full of Wranglers and Tacomas, which are perfectly suited for experiencing the fun trails of Otay Mountain. The truck trail is a rough road that leads to many off-roads of various complexity. Higher clearance vehicles will give you best options. We went on an uncommon cloudy day but as we continued to climb, we got above the clouds and it was beautifully clear towards the summit. It was about an hour drive from the trailhead start to the end near at Alta Rd (south west end of trail). We had...

Pretty cool trail for beginners. Very steep drop off the whole way up. There's little offshoots you can go get more technical on. Beautiful views! Only thing that was lame was trying to get the locked gate open with the code they give you at the ranger station. They eventually helped open but...