Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Cedaredge, Colorado

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West Green Mountain Trail (#719)

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…
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Total Miles
5.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Scotland

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…
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Total Miles
2.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

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…
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Total Miles
4.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Hay Park (#729)

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…
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Total Miles
1.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Smith Mountain Jeep Road Overlook

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…
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Total Miles
4.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Leroux Creek Road - FS 128

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…
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Total Miles
7.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Hunter Reservoir Trail

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,…
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Total Miles
3.2
Tech Rating
Best Time
Su / Fa

Park Creek/Salt Creek Loop

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…
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Total Miles
20.5
Tech Rating
3 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

25 Mesa Road

25 Mesa Road is a wide, smooth well-graded road running all the way across Uncompahgre Plateau from Nucla to Delta. We did not find any specific attractions along the route, but it is an enjoyable…
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Total Miles
26.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Silver Spruce to High Trail Loop

Mostly 50" track with several creek crossings, steep climbs, and descents. This trail winds through Aspen and Spruce forest before traveling across the Grand Mesa. There are cattle grazing, deer, elk, bears, and moose to…
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Total Miles
32.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Edge Trail

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…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Candy Cane Loop

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…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Overland Reservoir

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…
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Total Miles
58.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Elephant Skin Road

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…
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Total Miles
15.5
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

South Divide

This is a series of well-graded or slightly bumpy roads that will take you from Ridgway to Olathe over the Uncompaghre Plateau. The south part has vast views of open ranchland, the center is in…
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Total Miles
79.9
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Moonlight Mesa

Moonlight Mesa is one of the longer single tracks in the adobe badlands of the Peach Valley Recreation Area. The SE trailhead on Elephant Skin Road is in the back of the adobe badlands where…
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Total Miles
4.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Peach Valley Loop

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…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Highway One (Part One)

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…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Snake ATV Trail

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…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Highway Ridge

This unmarked single track is part of the Peach Valley Recreation Area and is a fun ridge line trail along the adobe clay badlands that make up much of this trail system. This trail is…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Highway One (Part Two)

Highway One (Part Two) is a continuation of Highway One (Part One) ATV trail that is the main thoroughfare between the Peach Valley staging area and the Elephant Skin staging area. From the north trailhead,…
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Total Miles
2.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Mystery Ditch

Mystery Ditch is a fun twisty ditch trail with very tight curves and banked corners. The trail rides through the bottom of a dirt arroyo with dirt walls several feet high. The trail is overall…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Lunar Ridge

Lunar Ridge is a narrow and steep single track through an adobe badlands landscape near Montrose, Colorado. The trail is a smooth clay surface and winds along the narrow ridge lines of the adobe hills…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Lunar Express

Lunar Express is a fun, tight, and twisty adobe trail in the Flat Top - Peach Valley Recreation Area. There are almost 100 miles of trail in this recreation area and many of the adobe…
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Total Miles
3.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Escalante Canyon

Escalante Canyon is a very nice run from the desert at the Gunnison River to the forest on the Uncompahgre Plateau. This Jeep trail takes you upstream through Escalante Canyon (west side of the loop),…
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Total Miles
63.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Eagle Ridge

Eagle Ridge is a short single track in the Flat Top - Peach Valley recreation area on adobe clay soil. It's a series of hill climbs and descents up and down big adobe hills in…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Tight Brush

This is a tight and narrow single track through the bottom of an adobe arroyo with several foot-high dirt walls. It's very narrow, and you have to watch out for hitting your handlebars on the…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Speed Ridge

Speed Ridge is a short ATV trail on an adobe ridge line in the Flat Top - Peach Valley Recreation Area. The trail is two-track width, but not overly wide, with some whoops. It starts…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Ponds Ridge

Ponds Ridge is an adobe ridge line trail similar to most of the ridge line trails in the Flat Top- Peach Valley Recreation Area. It's a narrow single-track trail made up of ascents and descents…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

No Name Ridge

No Name Ridge is a fun single track near the Elephant Skin Staging Area of the Flat Tops-Peach Valley recreation area. The trail follows a ridge line atop the soft adobe clay hills that make…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

ATV Trails Near Cedaredge, Colorado

West Green Mountain Trail (#719)

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…
Learn more about West Green Mountain Trail (#719)
Total Miles
5.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Scotland

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…
Learn more about Scotland
Total Miles
2.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

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…
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Total Miles
4.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Hay Park (#729)

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…
Learn more about Hay Park (#729)
Total Miles
1.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Smith Mountain Jeep Road Overlook

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…
Learn more about Smith Mountain Jeep Road Overlook
Total Miles
4.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Leroux Creek Road - FS 128

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…
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Total Miles
7.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

UTV/Side-by-Side Near Cedaredge, Colorado

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…
Learn more about Gunnison Gorge South River Road
Total Miles
4.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Smith Mountain Jeep Road Overlook

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…
Learn more about Smith Mountain Jeep Road Overlook
Total Miles
4.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Leroux Creek Road - FS 128

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…
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Total Miles
7.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

25 Mesa Road

25 Mesa Road is a wide, smooth well-graded road running all the way across Uncompahgre Plateau from Nucla to Delta. We did not find any specific attractions along the route, but it is an enjoyable…
Learn more about 25 Mesa Road
Total Miles
26.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Overland Reservoir

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…
Learn more about Overland Reservoir
Total Miles
58.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Elephant Skin Road

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…
Learn more about Elephant Skin Road
Total Miles
15.5
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa