Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Bancroft, Idaho

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Indian Creek - Cow Camp

This is the most easily runnable Public-Land only route from 10 Mile Pass / Indian Creek area to the Cow Camp area. It is all dirt starting from the Indian Creek trailhead off of 10-mile…
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Total Miles
12
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Slate Trail #3119

Slate Trail #3119 is a 0.9-mile-long ATV spur forming a short loop with Trail #3118 off of Trail #3331. This easy route follows a mostly flat and gradual path through tall grass and mixed vegetation,…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Bailey Ridge #3118

Bailey Ridge #3118 is a 1.4-mile-long ATV spur that branches off Trail #3331 and travels across sagebrush-covered hillsides and wide open meadows. The trail follows a gradual grade with a dry, dusty surface that includes…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Cow Fork Bench #3373

Cow Fork Bench #3373 is an easy 1.4-mile-long ATV trail that begins at a gate with space for a 50-inch vehicle to enter. It travels north across the base of a hillside on mostly flat…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Bone to Wolverine Brush Creek Run

This route is easily passable by any overland rig and most family SUVs. It takes you through a mix of private cattle ranches and public land. You will pass through rolling sagebrush hills and several…
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Total Miles
38.5
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Trail Hollow #3368

Trail Hollow #3368 is a 4.4-mile-long ATV trail that forms a mellow loop through forest and open ridgelines. When ridden clockwise from its intersection with Trail #3332, it starts flat and winds easily through grassy…
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Total Miles
4.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

North Sulphur Canyon #5245

North Sulphur Canyon #5245 is an easy 0.7-mile ATV trail that begins at the intersection with trail #5244 and descends steadily into the forest along the boundary between National Forest and BLM land. The trail…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Cranes Flat Cutoff

This trail is a graded gravel cutoff road between Blackfoot Reservoir Road and Bone / Grays Lake Road. It is a generally smooth road through a mix of private cattle ranches and public land. It…
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Total Miles
11.6
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Three Ponds #3367

Three Ponds #3367 is a short and easy spur trail branching off Trail Hollow #3368, offering some extra mileage and scenic views. The route begins in wide open meadows with a faint, grassy track that…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Oneida Narrows Reservoir

This is an easy trail. You'll be able to do it in 2WD as long as there is no snow. It's a beautiful high desert scenery that follows the river and ends at a lake.…
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Total Miles
13.6
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Moonlight Meadow #3404

Moonlight Meadow #3404 is a 1.5-mile-long primitive ATV trail that begins at a marked intersection with Trail #3442 and forms a half-loop up to a connecting forest service road. The trail is very faint with…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Aspen Range - Middle Sulphur #5248

Aspen Range - Middle Sulphur #5248 is an easy 1.9-mile-long ATV trail that starts near the Wood Canyon Motorized Trailhead and offers a smooth, gradual route through forest terrain. From the north end, the trail…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Middle South Sulphur Canyon #5243

Middle South Sulphur Canyon #5243 is an easy 2.1-mile-long ATV trail that begins at a marked entrance off Sulphur Canyon Road #50126 on the north end. The trail follows a wide, well-used, and maintained path…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Wood Canyon Loop #5249

Wood Canyon Loop #5249 is an easy 2.3-mile ATV trail that winds through pine forest and open meadows with scenic aspen groves. The route includes semi-steep grades as it climbs up to a ridgeline and…
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Total Miles
2.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

North Middle #3443

North Middle #3443 is a 1.2-mile ATV connector trail that links Trail #3404 to Forest Service Road #30401. The route begins at the west end as a more defined path exiting the meadow, making it…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Trail Canyon East #5250

Trail Canyon East #5250 is an easy 1.2-mile ATV trail that descends from its south end at the end of Forest Service Road 50902 to a meadow near the Trail Canyon Motorized Trailhead and a…
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Total Miles
1.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Trail Canyon #5254

Trail Canyon #5254 is an easy 1.3-mile ATV trail that begins at a signed entrance from the Trail Canyon Motorized Trailhead, a large dirt parking area. Starting at the north end, the trail moves gradually…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Emigration #3359

Emigration #3359 is a 2.6-mile-long ATV trail that begins at the north end on a wide, rocky path with no trail sign marking the start of its 50-inch designation. The initial section is filled with…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su

Scout Mountain

This trail is just outside of Pocatello. It goes into the National Forest, so there is some free camping in this area. On this trail, you will gain 3,000 feet in elevation. You start down…
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Total Miles
11
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

RCD Connector #3375

RCD Connector #3375 is an easy, flat ATV trail that links the RCD Campground with the Emigration Winter Sports Parking Area. The north end begins at a marked trail sign for 50-inch vehicles near a…
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Total Miles
0.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Midland #3309

Midland #3309 is a 5.1-mile-long ATV trail that begins at the Emigration Winter Sports Parking Area and travels south through a mix of forest and open hillsides. The trail starts as a wide, easy dirt…
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Total Miles
4.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Dry Fork - Meadow Springs #5226

Dry Fork - Meadow Springs #5226 is a moderately easy ATV trail that acts as a short connector between Dry Fork Road #50130 and the junction with trails #5225 and #5232. Traveling eastward, the trail…
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Total Miles
0.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Petterson Canyon #5232

Petterson Canyon #5232 is an easy ATV trail that begins at the intersection with trails #5225 and #5226 and travels east, initially crossing a large open field used for cattle grazing. Although the track is…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Birch Creek Road 407

Birch Creek Road connects the Cub River Road to the community of Mink Creek on State Route 36. The byway allows access to the German Dugway and Telegraph roads. This is an unimproved forest road…
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Total Miles
8.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Bone to Caribou Loop

This route takes you from Bone Road to the Caribou Loop. It is in a gorgeous valley with mountains to the West that stay green year-round and are very pretty as the leaves turn in…
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Total Miles
21.7
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Idaho Falls to Wolverine Canyon

This route takes you from Idaho Falls up Bone Road, past the Bone Store, and up the Wolverine Canyon. It is a fun ride to take all year round for a Sunday drive or a…
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Total Miles
17.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Green Basin #5229

Green Basin #5229 is an easy ATV trail that begins near dispersed campsites by the Green Basin Motorized Trailhead, with convenient access from Slug Creek Road. This area is commonly used as a staging point…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Harrington Peak #5215

Harrington Peak #5215 is an easy 3 mile ATV trail that winds through Caribou National Forest and is easily accessed from the Green Basin Motorized Trailhead off Slug Creek Road. Starting at the north end…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Third Creek to Ruben Hollow 7445

This is a short and easy ATV trail that can be used as a connection to the Ruben Hollow single track. From the south end, it starts at a shallow short creek crossing at the…
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Total Miles
0.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

#5234

Trail #5234 is an easy 0.5-mile ATV spur that branches off the main Harrington Peak trail. The route is grassy and slightly overgrown in places, winding through the forest on a gradual path that follows…
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Total Miles
0.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

ATV Trails Near Bancroft, Idaho

Indian Creek - Cow Camp

This is the most easily runnable Public-Land only route from 10 Mile Pass / Indian Creek area to the Cow Camp area. It is all dirt starting from the Indian Creek trailhead off of 10-mile…
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Total Miles
12
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Slate Trail #3119

Slate Trail #3119 is a 0.9-mile-long ATV spur forming a short loop with Trail #3118 off of Trail #3331. This easy route follows a mostly flat and gradual path through tall grass and mixed vegetation,…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Bailey Ridge #3118

Bailey Ridge #3118 is a 1.4-mile-long ATV spur that branches off Trail #3331 and travels across sagebrush-covered hillsides and wide open meadows. The trail follows a gradual grade with a dry, dusty surface that includes…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Cow Fork Bench #3373

Cow Fork Bench #3373 is an easy 1.4-mile-long ATV trail that begins at a gate with space for a 50-inch vehicle to enter. It travels north across the base of a hillside on mostly flat…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Bone to Wolverine Brush Creek Run

This route is easily passable by any overland rig and most family SUVs. It takes you through a mix of private cattle ranches and public land. You will pass through rolling sagebrush hills and several…
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Total Miles
38.5
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Trail Hollow #3368

Trail Hollow #3368 is a 4.4-mile-long ATV trail that forms a mellow loop through forest and open ridgelines. When ridden clockwise from its intersection with Trail #3332, it starts flat and winds easily through grassy…
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Total Miles
4.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

UTV/Side-by-Side Near Bancroft, Idaho

Indian Creek - Cow Camp

This is the most easily runnable Public-Land only route from 10 Mile Pass / Indian Creek area to the Cow Camp area. It is all dirt starting from the Indian Creek trailhead off of 10-mile…
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Total Miles
12
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Bone to Wolverine Brush Creek Run

This route is easily passable by any overland rig and most family SUVs. It takes you through a mix of private cattle ranches and public land. You will pass through rolling sagebrush hills and several…
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Total Miles
38.5
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Cranes Flat Cutoff

This trail is a graded gravel cutoff road between Blackfoot Reservoir Road and Bone / Grays Lake Road. It is a generally smooth road through a mix of private cattle ranches and public land. It…
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Total Miles
11.6
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Oneida Narrows Reservoir

This is an easy trail. You'll be able to do it in 2WD as long as there is no snow. It's a beautiful high desert scenery that follows the river and ends at a lake.…
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Total Miles
13.6
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Scout Mountain

This trail is just outside of Pocatello. It goes into the National Forest, so there is some free camping in this area. On this trail, you will gain 3,000 feet in elevation. You start down…
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Total Miles
11
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Birch Creek Road 407

Birch Creek Road connects the Cub River Road to the community of Mink Creek on State Route 36. The byway allows access to the German Dugway and Telegraph roads. This is an unimproved forest road…
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Total Miles
8.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa