Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Cedaredge, Colorado

This is a scenic and fun trail on the Mesa with thick trees and meadows of wildflowers. The trail climbs East to West. Obstacles are 12 inches or less. The East side is generally looser with tight turns between trees. The West side opens up and is faster while still featuring loose rocks, though mos...
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This trail is generally accessed from the West Green Mountain Trailhead off of Surface Creek Road. The trail climbs approximately 1400 feet to the Northwest. The trail is rutted and washed out in spots initially but improves as the climb gets steeper. There are 2-3 stream crossings that are 6-12 inc...
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Hay Park is a fun 50-inch trail that connects Eureka and Hay Park Road. It offers nice views of several lakes. The trail does not change much in elevation and lacks many technical sections but is pretty heavily rutted in spots. The trail passes through many tall and sometimes thick pines rather than...
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Just outside of Delta Colorado, inside Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area you'll find a beat up gravel road that leads you down to the Gunnison river. Most SUV's and trucks will not have an issue navigating the narrow steep road down to the river floor. Once down on the river, you'll have a v...
Learn more about Gunnison Gorge South River Road

Just outside of Delta, Colorado, inside Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area, you'll find an unmaintained jeep trail that leads you out onto a peninsula with spectacular views of the Gunnison Gorge. The trail overall is relatively easy to navigate with the occasional steep grade, loose rocks, a...
Learn more about Smith Mountain Jeep Road Overlook

Easy Forest service road that winds up at the lower elevations through gamble oaks then as you climb up in elevation into aspen groves and as you reach the top of the Grand Mesa you will be in Pine/Aspens/meadows with several small lakes that can be fished. There are also many dispersed camping spot...
Learn more about Leroux Creek Road - FS 128

This well-established cutoff provides an alternative option from the Sidewinder Trail to the Smith Mountain Trail. Terrain is easy, but it offers different views to create more of a loop experience in this area. This trail and this area are very accessible, even during the winter months, and make fo...
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This trail is a spur that begins and ends at the Upper East Leon Trailhead. While most of the trails in the area have cattle guards, this one does not. We found the gate closed, so we left it that way after passing through. The first couple of miles meander through a wide, shallow valley with severa...
Learn more about Hunter Reservoir Trail

This is a scenic graded road over Grand Mesa between Paonia and Collbran, easy enough to be done in a passenger car. Overland Reservoir is owned by Overland Ditch and Reservoir Company, founded in 1903 as a mutual ditch company to serve agricultural farmers primarily in the Redlands Mesa area of Del...
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Escalante Canyon is a beautifully scenic, highly accessible 6.7-mile route that begins immediately off the paved highway, welcoming off-road explorers with a massive, hard-packed dirt staging area easily capable of accommodating up to 60 vehicles and large trailers. This exceptionally smooth, recent...
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The Edge Trail is an adobe ridgeline trail in the Peach Valley Recreation Area that goes through an adobe clay badlands landscape. Starting from the northern trailhead, it starts wide but narrows up on the first adobe ridge lines. While on the ridge, you can see straight down to the steep grey fins ...
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76 Road is a highly accessible and scenic 1.2-mile dirt trail that begins near a sprawling staging area close to the main entrance. Immediately along the start of the route, visitors will find a convenient campground. The early sections of this path are characterized by smooth, effortless travel con...
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Denca Road is a highly scenic, moderately challenging 6.7-mile backcountry transit that begins directly off the main E 23 route. Welcoming a wide variety of outdoor enthusiasts—including passenger cars, trucks, side-by-sides, and horseback riders—the trail kicks off at a convenient, medium-sized dir...
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Candy Cane Loop is an adobe ridge line loop for 50" vehicles in Peach Valley, but has some spots that may be quite narrow for an ATV. Going clockwise, it starts as a winding and whooped out two tracks that meanders on the tops of the adobe clay hills. It has several off camber banked corners in the ...
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Elephant Skin Road is an easy Jeep trail between Montrose and Olathe. There are a few shallow gullies across the road, but can be done with any vehicle with a bit of clearance. There is a very strange occurrence in the middle of the trail. There is an area where gullies are joined by underground n...
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Beginning directly off Route 737, Denca Road Spur A is a beautifully secluded, outback-style route open to hikers, horseback riders, mountain bikers, passenger cars, and side-by-sides. This highly scenic 3.1-mile path winds quietly through rolling desert hills dotted with sparse, fragrant brush and...
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Highway One is an ATV trail that is the main thoroughfare between the Peach Valley staging area and the Elephant Skin staging area. From the north trailhead, it drops down from Peach Valley staging area and becomes a wide major dirt trail on adobe clay soil. It is as wide as a highway in parts and v...
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The Snake ATV trail is a fun ATV trail accessed from the Peach Valley Staging Area that winds at the bottom of the flat valley between the adobe hills. It mostly covers the flat ground and winds back and forth between two hills. There are two narrower sections, and it crosses the Highway One ATV tra...
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Peach Valley Loop is one of several ATV trails in the Peach Valley Recreation Area. It is an easy and wide two track making a loop on the adobe clay badlands that make up much of this trail system. It starts at the Peach Valley staging area and climbs up the adobe hills to the ridge lines on top. Th...
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This loop offers an easy to moderate mix of terrain with great vistas, aspen groves, moderate stream crossings, and wildlife. A Colorado state park pass will be needed to enter Vega State Park which gives you access to a parking lot for OHVs at the south end. From here, you head up the backside of ...
Learn more about Park Creek/Salt Creek Loop

This is a scenic and fun trail on the Mesa with thick trees and meadows of wildflowers. The trail climbs East to West. Obstacles are 12 inches or less. The East side is generally looser with tight turns between trees. The West side opens up and is faster while still featuring loose rocks, though mos...
Learn more about Scotland

This trail is generally accessed from the West Green Mountain Trailhead off of Surface Creek Road. The trail climbs approximately 1400 feet to the Northwest. The trail is rutted and washed out in spots initially but improves as the climb gets steeper. There are 2-3 stream crossings that are 6-12 inc...
Learn more about West Green Mountain Trail (#719)

Hay Park is a fun 50-inch trail that connects Eureka and Hay Park Road. It offers nice views of several lakes. The trail does not change much in elevation and lacks many technical sections but is pretty heavily rutted in spots. The trail passes through many tall and sometimes thick pines rather than...
Learn more about Hay Park (#729)

Just outside of Delta Colorado, inside Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area you'll find a beat up gravel road that leads you down to the Gunnison river. Most SUV's and trucks will not have an issue navigating the narrow steep road down to the river floor. Once down on the river, you'll have a v...
Learn more about Gunnison Gorge South River Road

Just outside of Delta Colorado, inside Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area you'll find a beat up gravel road that leads you down to the Gunnison river. Most SUV's and trucks will not have an issue navigating the narrow steep road down to the river floor. Once down on the river, you'll have a v...
Learn more about Gunnison Gorge South River Road

Just outside of Delta, Colorado, inside Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area, you'll find an unmaintained jeep trail that leads you out onto a peninsula with spectacular views of the Gunnison Gorge. The trail overall is relatively easy to navigate with the occasional steep grade, loose rocks, a...
Learn more about Smith Mountain Jeep Road Overlook

Easy Forest service road that winds up at the lower elevations through gamble oaks then as you climb up in elevation into aspen groves and as you reach the top of the Grand Mesa you will be in Pine/Aspens/meadows with several small lakes that can be fished. There are also many dispersed camping spot...
Learn more about Leroux Creek Road - FS 128

This well-established cutoff provides an alternative option from the Sidewinder Trail to the Smith Mountain Trail. Terrain is easy, but it offers different views to create more of a loop experience in this area. This trail and this area are very accessible, even during the winter months, and make fo...
Learn more about Sunnyside Cutoff