After a long run on highways from Bedrock,

Colorado, to our final destination, we

gathered at the Spanish Trail Arena and

paraded through downtown Moab, Utah, on

the way to the BBQ/raffle/party at Canyon-

lands by Night & Day event center. Our

group of 100 Jeeps cruising through town

together created quite a stir on the street.

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listed in the route guidebook for dozens
of photo sites that could be explored,
photographed, and then posted to social
media by participants with the hashtag

jpd nd19poker. T hese Jp Di r t ’N Dr ive

Poker Photo Challenge posts were shown
and traded for poker cards each night
at the Four Wheeler Network trailer
during check-in. The best poker hand
t h is yea r was held by Aust i n Ha r t nell,
who received free registration and a
reservation for the 2020 Jp Dirt ’N Drive.
However, maybe one of the coolest prizes
a Jeep enthusiast could ever want, a front
grille autographed by the entire Jeep
development team, went to luckiest raff le
ticket holder Lee Hurlbutt.
T he 2019 Jp Di r t ’N Dr ive P resented
by Jeep covered a lit t le more t ha n 60 0
miles in three days on highways, byways,
dirt roads, and off-road trails. We had
been the guests of the CliffHangers
4-Wheel Drive Club in Farmington,
New Mexico, and the Western Slope
4 Wheelers in Montrose, Colorado, and
were shown some truly epic Jeeping by
both. All along the way, new friendships
had been formed and old friendships were
revisited. There had also been beauti-
ful scenery; historical, geological, and
cultural sites; and interesting small towns,
farms, and ranches—things most people
never see on their 70-mph all-interstate
t h rash get t i ng to Easter Jeep Sa fa r i. Jp
Di r t ’N Dr ive a r r ives i n Moab on t he
Sunday prior to Easter every year, making
it easy to pla n for. I f you’re i nterested i n
t he 2020 Jp Di r t ’N Dr ive, stay t u ned
to jpmaga z i ne.com a nd @jpmag on
Facebook for application announcements.
And remember, there’s no whining.

The night ended with a raffle for prizes ranging

from tools to Jeep parts to a full set of tires, all

donated by our 2019 Jp Dirt ’N Drive sponsors:

Jeep, General Tire, JKS Manufacturing, KC

HiLites, and Rugged Radios. Lee Hurlbutt

(center) was this year’s lucky raffle winner of the

front grille autographed by members of the Jeep

marketing and engineering team, presented by

Jp Editor Rick Péwé (lef t) and Br andon Grimus

(right) of Jeep Brand Marketing.

Sunday night in Moab was capped off with a

free BBQ/party/raffle at the Canyonlands by

Night & Day event center. Those empty chairs

you see, those used to be filled by people

who are now getting in the chow line for the

delicious BBQ dinner. Those guys waving,

they are smart enough to wait for the crowd to

thin out; they know there’s plenty of food.

An exclusive sneak preview of two new Jeep Easter Jeep Safari concept vehicles was arranged

for 2019 Jp Dirt ’N Drive participants during the BBQ party on Sunday evening. On hand were

some of Jeep’s top designers and engineers, and we had free access to the Wayout and Five-

Quarter. The well-done Wayout highlights the 2020 Gladiator’s 1,600-pound payload capacity

and is fully dressed for backcountry days and nights, including auxiliary fuel cans integrated

into the bedsides. Five-Quarter is a ready-to-party restomod of a ’68 M-715 “Five-Quarter”

military truck on Dynatrac ProRock 60 front and 80 rear axles and 40-inch tires. Its wood-

floored cargo box is bobbed and followed up with a flow-through tailgate.