Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Batavia, Arkansas
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Erbie Campground Road
This is an easy gravel road that has many points of interest. There are scenic views of the mountains and a few water crossings to get to connecting roads. If coming from Highway 7, you…
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Total Miles
6.2
Tech Rating
1
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Old River Road
Old River Road is an enjoyable scenic drive through the Buffalo National River Wildlife Management Area. It features high mountain views, many creek crossings in the wet season, historic homesteads, campgrounds, and Buffalo River access…
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Total Miles
15.7
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Mincy Food Plot Row
This trail leads to the food plots and walking trails on the west side of Bee Creek in the Drury-Mincy Conservation Area. About three-quarters of the trail is an easy off-road drive, though there may…
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Learn more about Mincy Food Plot Row
Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Mincy Bee Creek Trail
This is a maintained gravel road with several low-water crossings that may appear shallower than they actually are, so use caution. The road continues uphill and dead-ends in the woods; it is not advisable to…
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Total Miles
2.4
Tech Rating
2
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Flat Woolum
Starting off near Flat Arkansas, you make your way North towards Mt. Hersey and then follow the main gravel road down to Woolum. Please keep in mind of the water crossings and make sure to…
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Total Miles
25.7
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Su / Wi
Valley of Peace
This is a beautiful Scenic backcountry driving through the Ozark National Forest. This is a great connection road for the area and it has stunning views. The trail starts off of Highway 123 by "Dick…
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Total Miles
9.5
Tech Rating
2
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
WMA Road 1245
After the entrance, the road opens into a well-maintained gravel drive with plenty of tree coverage and few obstacles in the first half. Beyond the turnoff for WMA Road 9, the terrain becomes slightly more…
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Total Miles
2.4
Tech Rating
2
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp / Wi
WMA Road 9
This route has some sharper turns, but it is overall a really fun trail. Great views overlooking a valley. Smaller cars would struggle on some portions of this trail, but a stock 4Runner or similar…
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Total Miles
2.1
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp / Wi
Racetrack Ridge
Racetrack Ridge (F.S. 167) is located in the Mark Twain National Forest. Located just a ways south of the Glade Top area. Primarily a rocky route with several water crossings, some mud holes, ledges, and…
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Total Miles
3
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su
Tylers Bend View
This is a beautiful scenic drive from Snowball, Arkansas to Tylers Bend Campground at the Buffalo National River. The trail follows along the roads Searcy County 13, Gateway Road, and Peter Cave Road. The beautiful…
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Total Miles
9.2
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Walnut Ridge Connector
Coming off of Highway 16 onto "Road 1264" you will be met with a very rocky road. This is a newer road however, it is extremely bumpy and rocky driving. The road can get very…
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Total Miles
11.5
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
CarrLow Gap
This is an easy gravel access road that leads down to the shoreline of Table Rock Lake. The trail is well-maintained and suitable for stock 4x4s, AWD vehicles, and most high-clearance 2WD trucks or SUVs…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
2
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp
Fairview Church - FSR 170
Fairview Church Forest Service Road (FSR) 170 is a short 1-mile-long trail that ends just before you reach private property. The trail has been blocked with large trees in the area to prevent people from…
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Learn more about Fairview Church - FSR 170
Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Roadkill Cafe - FS 504
Roadkill Cafe FS 504 (or Lower West Fork) is a natural forestry road branching off the Glade Top National Scenic Byway within Mark Twain National Forest, Ava Unit. It is a mild example of a…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Smith Branch Trail
Smith Branch Trail starts along the Rail Hollow Trail at FSR 1019. It is a narrower single-lane road with some areas to pass another vehicle. It has been recently graded but is slightly rougher than…
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Total Miles
2.7
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Rail Hollow
Rail Hollow starts out from Stallion Bluff Road/FSR2185 and descends along The Piney Creek Wilderness on 39-1M/FSR1018. It is a well-maintained gravel road freshly graded and wide enough for two vehicles to pass. Once passing…
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Total Miles
4.4
Tech Rating
1
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Piney Ridge
Piney Ridge starts out from Stallion Bluff Road at Forest Road 178. It is a wide two-lane gravel road in great condition with fresh gravel in some areas. To the East borders Piney Creek Wilderness…
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Total Miles
4.8
Tech Rating
1
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Pet Hollow - FS 507A
Pet Hollow FS 507A is a natural terrain forest service road within the Mark Twain National Forest Ava Unit, branching off the FS 507, as a part of the greater Glade Top National Forest Scenic…
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Learn more about Pet Hollow - FS 507A
Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Hercules Tower - FS 154
Hercules Tower FS 154 is a gravel forest road within the Mark Twain National Forest Ava Unit, as part of the larger Glade Top National Scenic Byway area. Aside from being a repeater site and…
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Total Miles
0.3
Tech Rating
1
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
West Fork East - FS 509
West Fork East FS 509 is a natural terrain forestry road branching off the Glade Top National Scenic Byway within the Mark Twain National Forest Ava Unit. The trail traverses through scattered treelines and glade…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Mark Twain National Forest Scenic Drive
This is a Mark Twain National Forest Scenic Byway Drive between Highway 112 and 86 in southwest Missouri near Roaring River State Park and Eagle Rock, Missouri. Following NF Road 197 or FR 2275, it…
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Total Miles
7
Tech Rating
1
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp
Prison Fence Trail
This is an easy scenic trail with various terrain types, including gravel, dirt, mud holes, rock ledges, and shallow water crossings. The elevation varies from around 1100' to just over 2400' as it follows along…
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Total Miles
16.1
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Fa
Wildcat Road
Wildcat Road is an out-and-back trail that at one point parallels private property. You will be greeted with scenic overlooks along the way from atop a ridge. At the end of this trail is Merriman…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Gary Hollow - FSR 510A
Gary Hollow Forest Service Road (FSR) 510A is an off shoot trail of Short Hollow - FS 510. It offers a variety of terrain and obstacles, ranging from rocky sections, mud holes, and a water…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa
Road 58/FSR 1004
To eliminate confusion about the trail name, Road 58 is a road that is in several areas of the national forest. It changes names, but if you just continue down this route and follow all…
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Total Miles
11.5
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi
Mary Cole Ridge
Mary Cole Ridge 1011 is a scenic ridge road in Mark Twain National Forest with distant overlooks through the hardwoods seen in the fall and wintertime. This meandering ridgeline road has many campsite pull-offs and…
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Total Miles
3.2
Tech Rating
2
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Glade Top Southwest - FS 149
Glade Top Southwest FS 149 is the southwest 5.8-mile section of the maintained gravel forestry road from Fairview, Missouri, to the Wolf Junction intersection. This is the southwest branch of the official Glade Top National…
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Total Miles
5.5
Tech Rating
1
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Carwash Falls
One of the most popular places to visit is the Ozark National Forest. This route runs north and south along the Big Piney Creek and offers abundant scenery and numerous places to camp along the…
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Total Miles
14
Tech Rating
2
Best Time
Sp / Su / Wi
Falling Water Road
Falling Water Road is a relaxing dirt road that runs along the eastern border of the Richland Creek Wilderness Area, and also follows Falling Water Creek. The most photographed waterfall in Arkansas, Falling Water Falls,…
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Total Miles
14.7
Tech Rating
1
Best Time
Sp / Su
Indian Creek
Indian Creek Road is a winding Forest Service trail that follows Indian Creek and ends on the north side at the Hurricane Creek Wilderness Area. You can expect to find a few dispersed campsites along…
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Learn more about Indian Creek
Total Miles
10.1
Tech Rating
2
Best Time
Fa
ATV Trails Near Batavia, Arkansas
Mincy Food Plot Row
This trail leads to the food plots and walking trails on the west side of Bee Creek in the Drury-Mincy Conservation Area. About three-quarters of the trail is an easy off-road drive, though there may…
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Learn more about Mincy Food Plot Row
Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Mincy Bee Creek Trail
This is a maintained gravel road with several low-water crossings that may appear shallower than they actually are, so use caution. The road continues uphill and dead-ends in the woods; it is not advisable to…
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Learn more about Mincy Bee Creek Trail
Total Miles
2.4
Tech Rating
2
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Flat Woolum
Starting off near Flat Arkansas, you make your way North towards Mt. Hersey and then follow the main gravel road down to Woolum. Please keep in mind of the water crossings and make sure to…
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Learn more about Flat Woolum
Total Miles
25.7
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Su / Wi
CarrLow Gap
This is an easy gravel access road that leads down to the shoreline of Table Rock Lake. The trail is well-maintained and suitable for stock 4x4s, AWD vehicles, and most high-clearance 2WD trucks or SUVs…
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Learn more about CarrLow Gap
Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
2
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp
Fairview Church - FSR 170
Fairview Church Forest Service Road (FSR) 170 is a short 1-mile-long trail that ends just before you reach private property. The trail has been blocked with large trees in the area to prevent people from…
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Learn more about Fairview Church - FSR 170
Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Pet Hollow - FS 507A
Pet Hollow FS 507A is a natural terrain forest service road within the Mark Twain National Forest Ava Unit, branching off the FS 507, as a part of the greater Glade Top National Forest Scenic…
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Learn more about Pet Hollow - FS 507A
Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
UTV/Side-by-Side Near Batavia, Arkansas
Mincy Food Plot Row
This trail leads to the food plots and walking trails on the west side of Bee Creek in the Drury-Mincy Conservation Area. About three-quarters of the trail is an easy off-road drive, though there may…
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Learn more about Mincy Food Plot Row
Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Mincy Bee Creek Trail
This is a maintained gravel road with several low-water crossings that may appear shallower than they actually are, so use caution. The road continues uphill and dead-ends in the woods; it is not advisable to…
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Learn more about Mincy Bee Creek Trail
Total Miles
2.4
Tech Rating
2
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi
Flat Woolum
Starting off near Flat Arkansas, you make your way North towards Mt. Hersey and then follow the main gravel road down to Woolum. Please keep in mind of the water crossings and make sure to…
Learn more about Flat Woolum
Learn more about Flat Woolum
Total Miles
25.7
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Su / Wi
Racetrack Ridge
Racetrack Ridge (F.S. 167) is located in the Mark Twain National Forest. Located just a ways south of the Glade Top area. Primarily a rocky route with several water crossings, some mud holes, ledges, and…
Learn more about Racetrack Ridge
Learn more about Racetrack Ridge
Total Miles
3
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su
CarrLow Gap
This is an easy gravel access road that leads down to the shoreline of Table Rock Lake. The trail is well-maintained and suitable for stock 4x4s, AWD vehicles, and most high-clearance 2WD trucks or SUVs…
Learn more about CarrLow Gap
Learn more about CarrLow Gap
Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
2
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp
Fairview Church - FSR 170
Fairview Church Forest Service Road (FSR) 170 is a short 1-mile-long trail that ends just before you reach private property. The trail has been blocked with large trees in the area to prevent people from…
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Learn more about Fairview Church - FSR 170
Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
3
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi