Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Conner, Montana

This scenic trail is a must-see. It traverses from Idaho to Montana along a historic route. Most of the main trail is a graded forest road with some paved sections. It's very remote, with no…
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Hart Bench Loop is a really fun and easy trail. This trail has lots to look at along the way. There are great views of the surrounding mountains, the valley, and the houses down below.…
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Robins Gulch is a very easy road. The road is very smooth, with no ruts, no washboards, and no potholes. There is room to pass oncoming vehicles in many places. For the most part, this…
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Burnt Ridge Trail is a short trail that can confuse what vehicles are allowed on it. OnX shows this trail is open to high clearance 4x4, ATV, and Dirtbike. However, when you reach the beginning…
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Hart Bench Loop Connector is a nice trail that connects Trapper Chaffin to Hart Bench Loop. The trail is one full-size vehicle wide the entire way with room to pass in a reasonable amount of…
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Chaffin Creek Hart Gulch is another trail in the Trapper Chaffin area, and it is unclear what vehicles are allowed on it. At the beginning of the trail, a sign says the trail is open…
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Spoon Creek is a neat little trail just south of Darby, Montana. It starts just off West Fork Road, barely off of Highway 93. The trail starts out in a residential area and the trail…
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Shook Mountain Trail is a fun trail that forks off of Piquett Creek Trail. Although this trail is easy, it is constantly changing direction. There are a lot of turns and switchbacks on this trail,…
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An easy narrow trail that leads to the Trapper Creek Trailhead. There is lots of fishing access along the way and many dispersed campsites. Lots of them are tucked nicely off the main trail. There…
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Trapper-Chaffin trail is a pretty easy trail to drive with any 4x4 vehicle. On the north end of the trail, it starts with a little patch of lightly aggressive potholes. Those are short-lived, however, and…
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Fish Hook is a fun and fairly short trail with some great views. This trail is mostly dirt but it does start as gravel. From the start, you will head up in elevation at a…
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This is an easy road into the mountains with many offshoots. The lower section ends at a locked gate for private property. The middle section is seasonally closed. There were few dispersed spots to camp…
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This trail starts with loose gravel and then transitions to some rutted hard pack. Gilbert creek does run along the bottom, at least to the first big turn with a grassy open camping spot. Then…
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Timber trail is an easy trail with sections of small ruts and some rocks that are pretty small. Other than that, the surface is mostly a fine gravel/sandy surface. The beginning of the trail is…
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A narrow and rocky offshoot. A muddy section near the beginning could be impassable when wet. Lots of ruts and rocks with narrow sections could cause tire damage. The trail doesn't really go anywhere;it just…
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A scenic loop drive along the hillside through a nicely thinned forest. Plenty of hiking trails crisscross the hillside, and there were two herds of Elk off in the trees. The easy graded trail has…
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Upper Pierce Creek Trail is a bumpy but easy trail that climbs steadily to the Baker Lake hiking trail. The beginning has quite a few washboards, and although less frequent further up, washboards continue all…
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Huckleberry Sale is a short trail that jumps off of Trapper Chaffin Trail. Like other trails in this area, it starts wide enough for a full-size vehicle and has spots wide enough to pass other…
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Pierce Creek is a short trail up the West Fork of the Bitterroot Valley. This trail is an easy ride or drive in any vehicle as long as the snow is melted. The trail is…
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Eastside Piquett is a single-vehicle-wide, double-track trail with mostly rocky surface, though rocks rarely exceed eight inches in diameter. The trail has some moderately deep ruts and a few potholes, but nothing that most vehicles…
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Skalkaho Rye is an effortless drive/ride. The road starts on Skalkaho Highway shortly before the first winter gate. The road begins as a relatively flat gravel road with a few sections of washboards and potholes.…
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Doran Point Trail is the natural continuation of the Robins Gulch Trail, which will take you to the Rye Creek staging area just off Rye Creek Road. Overall, this is a lower-than-average elevation trail for…
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Piquet Creek Part 1 starts just off the highway with a bridge that marks the beginning of the trail. The first four miles are very smooth with occasional small potholes and almost no washboards or…
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Warm Springs Laird Starts immediately off of Highway 93 near the Rocky Knob Restaurant. The first mile of this trail goes through a residential area before you reach national forest land. In this first mile,…
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Upper Spoon Creek is a good little trail to do while you are riding or driving Spoon Creek. It splits off of Spoon Creek in a very obvious spot right near a switchback. This trail…
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Piquett Ridge Trail is another trail that starts from the Piquett Creek Trail off of West Fork Rd. Piquett Ridge starts about two miles up Piquett Creek Trail. This trail is an easy drive/ride and…
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This trail is an easy, grated gravel and dirt run. You wouldn't ever think this neat area was here. The turn for the trail is right in the cute town of Darby. It begins running…
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This trail leads from the private Medicine Hot Springs and the NFS Warm Springs Campground back to the Crazy Creek Campground and Warm Springs Trail, then head up the mountain toward the Bear Creek Saddle,…
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This narrow two-track is only for ATV and Moto. It begins off highway 93 and heads past some houses into the hills. Be sure to take the middle two-track at the beginning, or you will…
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North Fork Rye trail starts about 5 miles up the Rye Creek Road from Highway 93, south of Darby. This trail is a very easy drive/ride as the entire trail is mostly packed dirt and…
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