2025 Nissan Rogue Rock Creek First Look

Nissan heads off-road with its most popular model.

Andrew Ganz | 

Jul 12, 2024 | 3 min read

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Nissan is toughening up its top-selling Rogue compact crossover for the 2025 model year with a new off-road-focused trim. The new-for-2025 Rogue Rock Creek features a host of add-ons designed to make it more useful for outdoorsy types as well as a bit better at leaving the pavement.

The Rogue is the second Nissan model to get the brand's Rock Creek treatment. The larger, three-row Pathfinder Rock Creek has a similar overall personality.

Here's what you need to know about the 2025 Rogue Rock Creek.

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2025 Rogue Rock Creek Wears More Adventurous Styling

The Rock Creek is the woodsy version of the automaker's popular Rogue. Where other versions of the Rogue have a razor-blade-like grille with color-matched trim, the Rogue Rock Creek features a black front end with red accents. Up top, a heftier, higher-riding roof rack with movable cross rails stands ready to accommodate whatever attachments are needed for items such as bicycles, tents, or skis.

Its black-finish 17-inch alloy wheels wear Falken WildPeak all-terrain tires rather than the street-oriented rubber fitted to other models.

Nissan offers the Rogue Rock Creek in four colors: Everest White, Super Black, Boulder Gray, and Baja Storm.

The black-and-red theme continues inside with black synthetic leather upholstery with perforated inserts and red stitching plus black trim on the dashboard.

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2025 Rogue Rock Creek Comes With Standard All-Wheel Drive

While the Rogue Rock Creek is far from a serious off-roader, it has a few tricks that might appeal to burgeoning outdoorsy types. For one, it comes standard with all-wheel drive with hill-descent control, features optional on other trims. It also comes with a surround-view camera system with an off-road mode that operates at lower speeds to help the driver spot objects such as rocks or deep ruts.

All Rogue models use a 1.5-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine rated at 201 horsepower and 225 pound-feet of torque. Nissan has not said whether the Rogue Rock Creek's roof rack, chunkier tires, and extra features will have an impact on its fuel-economy estimates. Other versions are estimated to achieve as high as 30/37/33 mpg in city/highway/combined driving with front-wheel drive and 28/35/31 mpg with all-wheel drive.

Heated front seats are standard, while a heated steering wheel, a wireless charging pad, a motion-activated power liftgate, and a power-adjustable passenger's seat are on the options list for the Rogue Rock Creek.

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Rogue Rock Creek Lacks Nissan's Hands-Off Tech

New for top-end SL and Platinum versions of the Rogue — but unavailable on the Rock Creek — is the automaker's ProPilot Assist 2.1 system. This driver-assistance tech builds on the more basic version available on other Rogue configurations by allowing for limited hands-off, eyes-forward driving on some highways. ProPilot Assist 2.1 makes use of Google built-in's mapping tech as well as a driver-attention monitoring system.

The Rogue Rock Creek — and other 2025 Rogue trim levels — will hit dealers in late summer 2024. As of July 2024, Nissan has yet to announce pricing.

Andrew Ganz

Andrew has been hooked on cars since his mother coaxed him into naps by driving him around in her rattly old diesel Mercedes-Benz. Perhaps it was the diesel fumes that lulled him to sleep. Either way, he has since parlayed his automotive enthusiasm into a decades-long career as a journalist writing for such well-known sites as Auto Express, Autoblog, Car and Driver, Leftlane News, Motor1, Motor Authority, and The Car Connection, not to mention numerous classic-car publications. When he's not researching cars, he's probably working on one — though he has yet to own a diesel Mercedes. Off to the classifieds he goes.