Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Ajo, Arizona

This mostly dirt and gravel surface trail is in the middle of a beautiful desert landscape with saguaros everywhere and mountain views in the distance. There is a lovely campsite at the beginning of the route and another one about halfway down the trail under an established tree. This second campsit...
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Rosedale Race Track Is a really cool Race track loop in the middle of the desert, it's located in the Bureau of Land Management. property so its public access. At the beginning of this trail, there is a large staging area where you can park your trailers, camp, and stage for the race track. A four-w...
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Rock and Dip are an overall easy road except for one section which is in the middle. From one side you will be able to get to cool rocks near the private property, right after that you will come up to a very large wash, it is steep, loose, rutted, and rocky, and a long wheelbase vehicle will most li...
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This fun out-and-back trail on the northern side of the Cardigan Peak Mountains Outside Ajo ends at a secluded campsite. This is a beautiful area of the desert full of giant saguaro cacti and flowers in the springtime. The trail is mostly dirt with some natural gravel sections mixed in. It is a 4x4 ...
Learn more about Old Car Camp Ajo

The Scenic Loop road is an easy road, it drives through both Private property and the Bureau of Land Management. It is mostly gravel with some sandy areas that drive across a wash, do not attempt when flooded, other than that any 2WD vehicle can access this area. Camping is abundant on this route in...
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Lookout Road is a mixed surface road of both sand, rock and gravel. The beginning of the trail is easy yet overgrown, it goes through washes at times, there are a couple of decent camp spots, and one of them is near old stone structures. When you get closer to the lookout the trail gets steep with l...
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Hidden camp is a beautiful road that runs through Bureau of Land Management property, it is an out and back, sections of this road are gravel while others are very overgrown and rocky, but when you get to the end you will have a very remote camp spot big enough for one or two vehicles. It is a prett...
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This is a lovely loop trail on the Northern side of the Cardigan Peak Mountains near Ajo. The Western side of the loop requires 4x4, while the Eastern side is easy and does not have any 4x4 sections. The western loop gets into a steep eroded section early on, and there are smaller eroded sections to...
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8113B road is an easy gravel road, there are sections that can be rutted, and sandy and some spots drive through a wash for a few seconds. There are a couple of camp spots with amazing views. The road ends at a wilderness area Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge with a gate, it is closed to vehic...
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Rasmussen extended road is an out-and-back road that drives through both Bureau of Land Management and Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. The wilderness areas require a pass and registration to enter and can be got at Luke AFB iSportsman Service. This area is also known for high illegal activit...
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This primarily wide and smooth wash runs from the main route of the gas pipeline road all the way down to the reservation boundary. Just before the border is a small pullout with an excellent camping area next to an old corral and ranching location. The wash is full of life, with many red-tailed haw...
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Locomotive Rock Road is easy at the beginning, any 2-wheel drive vehicle can access the area. You can park and hike to Locomotive Rock. There are camping spots on either side of the road big enough for large rigs or a couple of vehicles. Once you pass Locomotive Rock the trail becomes tight, rocky, ...
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This 25.4-mile section of the El Camino Del Diablo trail takes you through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The Organ Pipe Cactus section of this trail is a maintained dirt road and is easy to travel. There is one point of interest in this section, Bates Well Ranch. This ranch ran for 60 yea...
Learn more about El Camino Del Diablo (Organ Pipe Cactus)

Pozo Nuevo Road is within the Organ Pipe National Monument and is a 14-mile road that connects Puerto Blanco Drive with Bates Well Road. Quitobaquito Spring and the border wall are at the southern end and Bates Well Road is at the northern. There's very nice scenery along the way. It's technically n...
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This short drive offers many opportunities to hike along the way. There are some cool camping spots for both RVs and tent campers. You need to pay a small fee to enter the park, and ATVs and UTVs are not allowed.
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Easy off-road wash trail follows a flat sandy bottom, suitable for ATVs and 4x4s. Optional side routes present six to seven obstacles—boulder fields, narrow ledges, soft ruts, and washouts- for experienced drivers. A signed shortcut climbs steeply to an abandoned copper mine. Obstacles are bypassabl...
Learn more about Side Route - BLM 8008

This trail provides a more scenic and challenging option to reach the Painted Rock Petroglyph site from Interstate 8 than just driving there on paved backroads. It cuts through an area of Arizona State Land, which requires an inexpensive annual Arizona State Land permit. Permits can be obtained onli...
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Loop the Gila Bend Mountains while visiting the Gillespie Dam and Bridge and Sundad Ghost Town. Start this run in Gila Bend, then go north up the Gila River Valley on historic US Route 80, which initially ran from Tybee Island, Georgia, to San Diego, California. Visit Gillespie Bridge and Dam on the...
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This mostly easy out-and-back trail leads to a beautiful Archaeological site that is also a point of critical environmental concern. Plenty of informational kiosks in the area explain why this petroglyph site is important and needs preservation. The trail passes through private and public lands; ple...
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This trail is found in the Barry Goldwater Bombing Range, Sand Tank Mountain Area A. A permit is required and easily obtained for free at Luke.isportman.net. Check-in and check-out can easily be done on the same website. This trail takes off from Vekol Road and winds behind Maricopa Peak, Javelina M...
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This mostly dirt and gravel surface trail is in the middle of a beautiful desert landscape with saguaros everywhere and mountain views in the distance. There is a lovely campsite at the beginning of the route and another one about halfway down the trail under an established tree. This second campsit...
Learn more about Old Car Wash Ajo

Rosedale Race Track Is a really cool Race track loop in the middle of the desert, it's located in the Bureau of Land Management. property so its public access. At the beginning of this trail, there is a large staging area where you can park your trailers, camp, and stage for the race track. A four-w...
Learn more about Rosedale Race Track

Rock and Dip are an overall easy road except for one section which is in the middle. From one side you will be able to get to cool rocks near the private property, right after that you will come up to a very large wash, it is steep, loose, rutted, and rocky, and a long wheelbase vehicle will most li...
Learn more about Rock and Dip

This fun out-and-back trail on the northern side of the Cardigan Peak Mountains Outside Ajo ends at a secluded campsite. This is a beautiful area of the desert full of giant saguaro cacti and flowers in the springtime. The trail is mostly dirt with some natural gravel sections mixed in. It is a 4x4 ...
Learn more about Old Car Camp Ajo

This mostly dirt and gravel surface trail is in the middle of a beautiful desert landscape with saguaros everywhere and mountain views in the distance. There is a lovely campsite at the beginning of the route and another one about halfway down the trail under an established tree. This second campsit...
Learn more about Old Car Wash Ajo

Rosedale Race Track Is a really cool Race track loop in the middle of the desert, it's located in the Bureau of Land Management. property so its public access. At the beginning of this trail, there is a large staging area where you can park your trailers, camp, and stage for the race track. A four-w...
Learn more about Rosedale Race Track

Rock and Dip are an overall easy road except for one section which is in the middle. From one side you will be able to get to cool rocks near the private property, right after that you will come up to a very large wash, it is steep, loose, rutted, and rocky, and a long wheelbase vehicle will most li...
Learn more about Rock and Dip

This fun out-and-back trail on the northern side of the Cardigan Peak Mountains Outside Ajo ends at a secluded campsite. This is a beautiful area of the desert full of giant saguaro cacti and flowers in the springtime. The trail is mostly dirt with some natural gravel sections mixed in. It is a 4x4 ...
Learn more about Old Car Camp Ajo