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A mile after Barnwell, I turn right on the little road to Keystone Canyon, which immediately splits

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00577-keystone-canyon-road-.jpg Once over "the summit," Ivanpah Road heads straight toward the New York MountainsThumbnailsAs a bicyclist, I can choose to ride on either side of the road to Keystone Canyon: do I choose sand or rocks?Once over "the summit," Ivanpah Road heads straight toward the New York MountainsThumbnailsAs a bicyclist, I can choose to ride on either side of the road to Keystone Canyon: do I choose sand or rocks?Once over "the summit," Ivanpah Road heads straight toward the New York MountainsThumbnailsAs a bicyclist, I can choose to ride on either side of the road to Keystone Canyon: do I choose sand or rocks?Once over "the summit," Ivanpah Road heads straight toward the New York MountainsThumbnailsAs a bicyclist, I can choose to ride on either side of the road to Keystone Canyon: do I choose sand or rocks?Once over "the summit," Ivanpah Road heads straight toward the New York MountainsThumbnailsAs a bicyclist, I can choose to ride on either side of the road to Keystone Canyon: do I choose sand or rocks?

The road to the right leads toward Lecyr Well and Trio Mines, where I camped during my Mojave 2000 trip, while the left road leads to Keystone Canyon, and is my road today.

Back in 2000, I was also intending to enter Keystone Canyon, but I took the wrong branch of the road, partly because it wasn't on the map I was looking at and I had to guess (incorrectly) which fork to follow.