About
About Mesquite Trails
Mesquite Trails is Dustin Charles Berg's off-road trails website: the trail mapping partner of his book All Around Mesquite, and the mark on the book's Comprehensive Guide & Map.
What it is
The book's trail mapping partner
On the book's site, Dustin puts it simply: "Check out my off-road trails website." There, Mesquite Trails is "the book's trail mapping partner" that "maps the UTV and OHV trails around Mesquite," and the book's resources page lists it as "Our Trail Mapping Partner."
His Arizona Strip guide points riders here too: "Visit our partner company's website at www.mesquitetrails.com to gain insights, tips, and detailed information about these captivating trails in the region."
This site brings the trail side together: the Comprehensive Guide & Map with the Mesquite Trails mark, the book's five regions, the Arizona Strip next door, the town the rides start from, and what the agencies that manage the land say, each with a link.
Sources: allaroundmesquite.com (opens in a new tab); Resources (opens in a new tab); The Arizona Strip, Recreation (opens in a new tab)
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Who is behind it
Dustin Charles Berg
"Hailing from Yakima, Washington, Dustin Berg first set foot in Mesquite in 2019, hoping for a new beginning." His bio on the book's site describes a devoted husband, a loving father to two adopted stepdaughters, an avid UTV enthusiast, and a caring guardian to three dogs and a cat; in business, a marketing and communications professional for over 15 years.
The Progress introduced him in 2023 as a "local businessman and UTV trail-explorer," and called the book "a culmination of about three years of traversing the various trails throughout the region, talking to local trails experts and doing extensive research into available historical records." His Arizona Strip guide adds that he "has spent years exploring the backroads, trails, and small towns of the Arizona Strip and the wider tri-state region," much of it by UTV, camera in hand.
"Definitely the biggest challenge is trying to keep things organized, focused and factual. There's so many pieces of information and rumors and a lot of it can't be verified."
Sources: allaroundmesquite.com, About (opens in a new tab); The Progress (opens in a new tab); The Arizona Strip, About (opens in a new tab)
The book's partners
Who helped on the ground
The partners the book's resources page names: environmental, trail mapping, field testing and technology, and the outdoor resource that inspired the project.
Environmental partner
Virgin River Coalition
On the City of Mesquite's site.
Virgin River Coalition (opens in a new tab)Trail mapping partner
Mesquite Trails
This site, and the mark on the Comprehensive Guide & Map.
The mapField-testing partner
The Rugged Outdoorsmen
Named on the book's resources page.
theruggedoutdoorsmen.com (opens in a new tab)Technology partner
Mesquite Technologies
Named on the book's resources page.
mesquite.tech (opens in a new tab)Outdoor resource
Bird and Hike
"We are grateful to Jim Boone, Ph.D., in Ecology, for his contributions to Nevada and this region as an outdoor expert, environmentalist, and enthusiast." His site "inspired us to undertake our own project."
birdandhike.com (opens in a new tab)Dustin's other guide
The Arizona Strip
The communities, landmarks and routes of the Strip, next door to Mesquite.
thearizonastrip.com (opens in a new tab)Source: allaroundmesquite.com, Resources (opens in a new tab)
The book
Every place, with its story
The trails and destinations section of All Around Mesquite explains each place the map marks, region by region, with the history behind it.