Public lands will close as the annual King of the Hammers race event returns to the High Desert’s Johnson Valley in January 2025.

While the competition at the Optima King of the Hammers presented by Ford Performance has seen its share of agony and victory this week, the next three days of main events are certain to test ...

King of the Hammers is often described as “Burning Man for rednecks,” and while the drug of choice is usually Coors Light and the cars are valued for performance rather than artistic ...

King of the Hammers 2022: Stalking the Camps We found this rare Revcon 4x4 RV in Hammertown during King of the Hammers 2022. The owner brought it to California from its old home in Alaska.

Learn to race the toughest one-day off-road challenge on the planet—the King of the Hammers—with these simple steps.

King of the Hammers is, for lack of a better word, batshit. For those who've never heard of it, it's an off-road race in California's Johnson Valley, and marries rock crawling with flat-out open ...

King of the Hammers is touted as the toughest off-road race on Earth, a multi-week event in the Southern California desert that’s open to anyone with a car or motorcycle and a healthy amount of ...

Monster Energy released a feature video following its off-road team at King of the Hammers 2018.

I had a chance to really see these machines do battle during the 2024 Can-Am UTV Hammers Championship, one of the first events of this year's King of the Hammers.

Meet the couple that built an EV rock crawler for King of the Hammers Electrified powertrains are not favored by many fans of rock-crawling, off-roading events like California’s King of the ...