Off-Road Safety Academy (ORSA) personally invites you to enhance your off-road knowledge, skills, and familiarity with iconic backcountry regions while driving your 4X4 vehicle. In the entire USA, ORSA’s owner Bob Wohlers is the only full-time off-road trainer and permitted tour guide that has published three “how-to” books on off-road driving. Bob is a passionate vehicle-supported adventurer with a desire to help you learn how to safely drive your 4WD vehicle over varied terrain.
Off-Road Safety Academy Early 2025 4×4 Training Courses
Off-road industry experts all agree, completing a professional 4X4 training course designed to enhance your knowledge and skills is the best way to elevate your comfort and confidence when exploring the remote backcountry.
Introduction to 4WD Off-Roading – Discovery Course
Dates: January 25-26, 2025
Location: Prairie City State Vehicular Recreation Area, 13300 White Rock Rd, Rancho Cordova, CA
Cost: $799 per person
This is ORSA’s two-day 4WD course. This course will safely teach you in one weekend what it takes most people years to learn on their own. The goal of this course is to put you on a path to safely and ecologically off-road on a variety of different terrains.
Recovery Course – Total Approach to Getting Unstuck Off-Road
Dates: February 1-2, 2025
Location: Prairie City State Vehicular Recreation Area, 13300 White Rock Rd, Rancho Cordova, CA
Cost: $799 per person
This very popular course teaches you the primary skills from the book “The Total Approach to Getting Unstuck Off Road – 4WD Self Recovery & Vehicle-Assisted Recovery.”
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Off-Road Safety Academy Upcoming 4WD Backcountry Adventure Tours
ORSA’s Adventure Tours are iconic and build community among like-minded explorers. The primary objective of ORSA’s Adventure Tours is to orient you to a remote region at a level that assures your comfort and safety when returning to that area again and again. See sights you’ve only dreamed of and experience magical locations while learning how to be a self-reliant overlander and to safely navigate differing terrain in your vehicle.Want to see what a typical ORSA Adventure Tour experience is like?
Baja’s Hidden Heart Adventure Tour
Dates: February 20-28, 2025
Location: Baja California & Baja California Sur, Mexico
Cost: $1800 per vehicle
This exciting eight-night, nine-day adventure tour features a new and exciting southern route through Baja. You will be off-roading along the Sea of Cortez, the Pacific Coast, and through the middle of the Baja Peninsula. You will encounter wondrous landscapes, stunning ocean campsites, and relaxed evening campfires. On the tour, we will reach the Bay of Conception as our southern-most point. The tour includes a Grey Whale encounter in the famous Scammon’s Lagoon using a certified boat operator near the wonderful town of Guerrero Negro. During our inland wanderings, we will visit a famous Baja cave paintings area. New radiocarbon techniques dates these paintings back 11,000 years, roughly the same time as the end of the first ice age. The paintings are called the oldest on the continent.
Death Valley Overland Adventure Tour
Dates: March 20-23, 2025
Location: Death Valley National Park
Cost: $799 per vehicle
Death Valley is iconic, fabulously scenic, and portions can be very remote. Three days and three nights of overlanding, exploring the largest National Park in the lower 48 States. Over 80-percent of this beautiful park can’t be seen from the pavement – you have to venture off-road. ORSA takes you to the best sights. Sand dunes, canyons, hot springs, playas, craters, mines, and high-altitude trails are all part of this adventure tour. This tour visits Saline Valley, Hunter Mountain, Hidden Valley, Tea Kettle Junction, Racetrack, Ubehebe Crater, and the classic ghost town of Ballarat.
Camp on Baja Beaches Adventure Tour
Dates: May 23-30, 2025
Location: Baja California, Mexico
Cost: $1500 per vehicle
This eight-day, seven-night Overlanding-Style Tour begins in Calexico, California and ends in Tecate, Mexico. The tour will follow a fairly easy route with some off-roading through exceptionally scenic desert landscapes. You will visit San Felipe, Bahia San Luis Gonzaga, and Bahia de Los Angeles on the Sea of Cortez side. The tour then travels off-road to the remote Mission San Borja in the middle of the Baja peninsula. From the Mission, the tour crosses the peninsula to Hwy 1 and travels through Catavina, Punta Banda, and Ensenada. Camping during this tour is mostly on remote beaches.
