Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Blanchard, Idaho

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NF-2550 (HooDoo)

This route crosses over Mt HooDoo (elevation 5,119') from Blanchard to Priest River via National Forest Road 2550. The views up here are incredible on a clear day. Mt. Hoodoo is a popular spot for…
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Total Miles
23.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Mt Spokane via IEP Backroads

This route goes from Spirit Lake, ID to the top of Mt Spokane via Inland Empire Paper logging roads and Mt Spokane Nordic Trails. Starting from Brickel Creek Road (via IEP Brickel Creek Gate), to…
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Total Miles
14.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Brickel Creek Road

This road travels east/west through Inland Empire Paper's Brickel Creek Gate and connects to multiple other trails. The road is normally in decent shape with just a few ruts and washouts along the way. Mud…
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Total Miles
6.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Mica Road & Upper Outer Limits

This route combines Mica Road & Upper Outer Limits to form an alternate side path from the main road "Mt Spokane via IEP Backroads". Starting at Junction 9 and heading east, you'll take Mica Road…
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Total Miles
4.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Round Top Mountain Loop

This loop is mostly narrow, single-lane roads with limited places to pull over or turn around, but you will be rewarded with some great views at the top of Round Top Mountain. It is drivable…
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Total Miles
3.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Thompson Creek

This route is on Inland Empire Paper (IEP) land through the Thompson Creek Gate. This is more or less the main road through this area. There are multiple places to pull over or turn around…
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Total Miles
5.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Bead Lake

Some paved, mostly gravelled roads. Easy ride. Mostly forested road with some open areas where views are available.
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Total Miles
27.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time

LM 2697

You will need to air down before the trail. There is a staging area at the beginning of this trail. In the Summer and Fall, this is an easy smooth Forest Service Road for a…
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Total Miles
7.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

CDA-Hayden Lake View Route

Looking to check out the entire Rathdrum Prairie area? This is a great, scenic route featuring excellent views of the towns of Coeur d'Alene, Hayden, Athol, Rathdrum, and out to Post Falls. You also are…
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Total Miles
44.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Gleason McAbee 334

The trail starts down a residential dirt road for about 3 miles. Be prepared as in the winter it will only be plowed for the 3 miles. You will drive along Priest River for most…
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Total Miles
8.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Quartz Creek 416

This is a two-way Forest Service Road. Great way to get to other trails fast or back to the highway. Lots of pine trees and mountain views. In the wintertime, this trail can be icy…
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Total Miles
2.9
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Happy Fork

Great summer trail with an easy forest service road that you can do in 2WD. A little creek runs next to the trail and lots of pine trees. If you go in the winter be…
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Total Miles
6.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp

Straight Shot

This is a gradual and easy ATV route running north from the southern boundary of the ORV park. It begins as a wide, dry, and dusty path that traverses grassy slopes and sparse pine forest,…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Easy Going

This trail is a 1-mile easy OHV route that runs north to south through the center of the ORV park. It travels through a mix of grassy meadows and pine forest, with a wide and…
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Total Miles
0.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Canfield Mountain - Trail A (West)

This 2.8-mile-long dirt bike trail leaves from the west end from the bottom of Trail 1 and is much easier than Trail 1. It goes along a shelf of a hillside, on an easy single…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Canfield OHV

This is an easy two-track open to vehicles less than 50". It leaves from the parking area on Nettleman Road and goes through a gate. It's an old repurposed road now used by ATVs. The…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Canfield Mountain- Trail 6

Trail 6 in the Canfield Trail System is a short connector trail between the D and A singletracks. This one is 1.3 miles long and very easy. The north end goes past a gate, then…
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Total Miles
1.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Penn Trail, Cave Trail Loop

These are single track trails that are part of the Canfield trail system. Penn is a one-way up trail and Cave is a one-way down trail. Penn is a sustained climb that is mostly smooth,…
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Total Miles
6.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Canfield Mountain - Trail B

Trail B is an easy single track in the Canfield Trail System, although long and windy. From the west end, it starts as a narrow single track through trees and bushes. It's smooth and easy…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Canfield Mountain - Trail A (East)

This 5.6-mile segment of Trail A is a long and windy single track in the Canfield Trail System. It's wide and smooth coming from the east end. It has narrower sections later with more pieces…
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Total Miles
5.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Canfield Mountain- Trail 11

This is a wide and easy dirt bike trail in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest. It's fast and flowy and goes underneath a bunch of trees like through a tunnel. It's a smooth dirt surface…
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Total Miles
1.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

South Canfield OHV

1562 is the main thoroughfare for ATVs through the Canfield Trail System that goes all the way East to West along the north end of the trail system. This is a 3.4-mile-long segment of the…
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Total Miles
3.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

1562N

This short single track starts at the intersection with dirt bike trails 1562 and Trail A. It begins as a narrow single track through the pine trees. The trail goes on what looks like an…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Johnson/Lakeview Rd. #278

This is a dirt road with small ruts and occasional deep ruts, clear width for large vehicles, and many off-shoot narrow trails for ATVs or dirt bikes.
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Total Miles
14.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Dry State OHV

This is a 2.8-mile-long easy 50" trail through the Canfield Trail System near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. It has no obstacles, just smooth wide dirt going through a pine tree forest. There are a few old…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Cape Horn Mountain

This is a very scenic route out of Bayview. There are breathtaking views of the town and Lake Pend Oreille. The road starts as an easy fairly smooth road but after a couple of miles,…
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Total Miles
4.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Hell's Canyon

Singletrack trail to connect Hayden Creek to the Spades Mountain Trails. The trail begins 5 miles up Hayden Creek Road from the end of the pavement. There is a parking area at the trailhead, although…
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Total Miles
4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Dry Gulch Bypass OHV

This is an easy ATV trail that starts off of East Fernan Lake Road and is used to access the Canfield trail system. There's no parking area at the south end of the trail, just…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Panhandle Overland Rally Scenic Loop

Please keep in mind this is private property and is only accessible by attending the Panhandle Overland rally and is accessible one weekend a year. So please be respectful of this private property for the…
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Total Miles
3.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa

3 Sisters

This is an easy scenic route that can give you access to the 3 Sisters. The loop is very easy with any type of vehicle circling back to town on FS 297. There are great…
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Total Miles
5.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

ATV Trails Near Blanchard, Idaho

NF-2550 (HooDoo)

This route crosses over Mt HooDoo (elevation 5,119') from Blanchard to Priest River via National Forest Road 2550. The views up here are incredible on a clear day. Mt. Hoodoo is a popular spot for…
Learn more about NF-2550 (HooDoo)
Total Miles
23.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Mt Spokane via IEP Backroads

This route goes from Spirit Lake, ID to the top of Mt Spokane via Inland Empire Paper logging roads and Mt Spokane Nordic Trails. Starting from Brickel Creek Road (via IEP Brickel Creek Gate), to…
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Total Miles
14.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Brickel Creek Road

This road travels east/west through Inland Empire Paper's Brickel Creek Gate and connects to multiple other trails. The road is normally in decent shape with just a few ruts and washouts along the way. Mud…
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Total Miles
6.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Mica Road & Upper Outer Limits

This route combines Mica Road & Upper Outer Limits to form an alternate side path from the main road "Mt Spokane via IEP Backroads". Starting at Junction 9 and heading east, you'll take Mica Road…
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Total Miles
4.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Round Top Mountain Loop

This loop is mostly narrow, single-lane roads with limited places to pull over or turn around, but you will be rewarded with some great views at the top of Round Top Mountain. It is drivable…
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Total Miles
3.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Thompson Creek

This route is on Inland Empire Paper (IEP) land through the Thompson Creek Gate. This is more or less the main road through this area. There are multiple places to pull over or turn around…
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Total Miles
5.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

UTV/Side-by-Side Near Blanchard, Idaho

NF-2550 (HooDoo)

This route crosses over Mt HooDoo (elevation 5,119') from Blanchard to Priest River via National Forest Road 2550. The views up here are incredible on a clear day. Mt. Hoodoo is a popular spot for…
Learn more about NF-2550 (HooDoo)
Total Miles
23.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Mt Spokane via IEP Backroads

This route goes from Spirit Lake, ID to the top of Mt Spokane via Inland Empire Paper logging roads and Mt Spokane Nordic Trails. Starting from Brickel Creek Road (via IEP Brickel Creek Gate), to…
Learn more about Mt Spokane via IEP Backroads
Total Miles
14.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Brickel Creek Road

This road travels east/west through Inland Empire Paper's Brickel Creek Gate and connects to multiple other trails. The road is normally in decent shape with just a few ruts and washouts along the way. Mud…
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Total Miles
6.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Mica Road & Upper Outer Limits

This route combines Mica Road & Upper Outer Limits to form an alternate side path from the main road "Mt Spokane via IEP Backroads". Starting at Junction 9 and heading east, you'll take Mica Road…
Learn more about Mica Road & Upper Outer Limits
Total Miles
4.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Round Top Mountain Loop

This loop is mostly narrow, single-lane roads with limited places to pull over or turn around, but you will be rewarded with some great views at the top of Round Top Mountain. It is drivable…
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Total Miles
3.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Thompson Creek

This route is on Inland Empire Paper (IEP) land through the Thompson Creek Gate. This is more or less the main road through this area. There are multiple places to pull over or turn around…
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Total Miles
5.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa