Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Crouch Mesa, New Mexico

This area is a local Bloomfield favorite. The trail crisscrosses Crouch Mesa, with the northwest end starting in Flora Vista near Road 3100 and the northeast access point picking up a little off of 550. While it is a standard two-car width and sometimes deeply rutted track, it cuts across several tr...
Learn more about Crouch Mesa

This is a 1.6-mile-long easy ATV trail that is a mix of dirt trail and easy wash. The west end starts on an oil well road and heads east towards the wash on a dirt trail through flat sagebrush desert terrain. There are ATV signs on the route to follow. Once you reach the wash, you can turn right, an...
Learn more about Wash ATV

This 3.3-mile-long easy ATV trail leaves from a main dirt road on the south end and climbs up a loose dirt hill, then winds up and over the small rolling desert hills and into the washes. It's marked with trail signs to help follow the route. A lot of it is easy sandy washes, but it also has some lo...
Learn more about Coyote Cat ATV

This loop starts from an oil well access road and enters the desert terrain on a mid-width trail ideal for 60" SXSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes. Going counterclockwise from the south, it goes out onto a ridgeline on the soft clay dirt hills in this badlands-type terrain. The ridgeline has a lot of whoops....
Learn more about CMT East Loop

This is a mid-width trail ideal for 60" SXSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes that goes through a badlands-type desert terrain between Aztec and Bloomfield, New Mexico. It goes on a ridgeline on the soft clay dirt hills, overlooking the valley below. Watch out for the barbed wire fence that parallels the trail...
Learn more about Bloomfield SXS

This is 1.6 miles of Jeep trail through a sand wash. It starts on oilwell roads on either end and stays in the wash the entire time. There's an off-camber entrance into the wash on the east end that makes it more interesting. It's also only one vehicle wide at times, so it's much narrower than most ...
Learn more about Casanova Mount Wash

The northern half of this loop goes through a wide white sand wash, with big sweeping curves through the open desert. It's lined with bushes and pinyon trees and is smooth with no obstacles. Shortly after a powerline, the wash splits, and this trail goes southeast into another almost similar wash th...
Learn more about Choke Cherry ATV

From the south, this trail starts as a wide dirt trail between the pinyon trees, with portions of the trail in the beginning that are full-width roads. It turns off of the main road back into pinyon trees on a narrower trail. It's a bit rutted and uneven, with washouts. The trail goes over chunky la...
Learn more about Narrow Wash ATV

This trail is 2.7 miles of easy wash trail through the Johnson Arroyo. The wash stays pretty wide the whole time, with lots of tracks to follow. From the south, it goes through the easy, flat and smooth sandy wash, between sage brush, and small pinyon bushes. It curves through the wash around tall d...
Learn more about Johnson Arroyo ATV

This trail is designated for dirt bikes but is actually a road-width trail that accesses the oil wells. It's flat and straight, with essentially no features except a few small ruts. It's a bit sandy and loose but stays very easy the entire time. There are still signs indicating that it is limited to...
Learn more about Oilwell Road (Dirt Bike)

This is an easy desert ATV trail through the Glade Run Recreation Area. It's a mix of hardpacked dirt and slickrock with 1-foot ramped rock ledges and uneven layers of slickrock. It goes between cool rock formations and big juniper trees, making quick curves through the trees. It's a fun and fast tr...
Learn more about Glade Run ATV

This segment of ATV trail turns southwest from the Barton Arroyo, and goes straight over the flat ground, following an access road for the natural gas line. It's designated for ATVs and crosses several other roads, trails, and wash intersections during its route. It's easy and fast because it's real...
Learn more about Gasline ATV

Just north of Bloomfield, this route is primarily used by locals and oil and gas trucks to access oil sites or the trails that crisscross the area between NM 550. From Bloomfield, it's the access point to a lot of great places east of US 550, north of US 64, west of the San Juan River, and south of ...
Learn more about Arizona Road/CR 4900 Extension

This trail is an unnamed oil road that cuts across BLM land and includes some spectacular views looking south towards Angel Peak and the badlands as well as looking north and northeast towards the Colorado Rockies and Aztec. There are some fairly steep inclines, stretches with heavy ruts, and some s...
Learn more about Arizona to Center Point Fire Station 2

This is a 4-mile-long ATV loop in the Glade Run Recreation Area. It mostly goes through washes, oilwell roads, and easy ridge lines. The washes are smooth and sandy, with lots of tracks to follow, but they do have lots of intersections and split lines, so make sure to keep looking out for the ATV si...
Learn more about ATV Loop

This trail starts after Anna's Ridge and continues on the narrow ridgeline on the clay hills. It has sweeping turns and little descents and climbs as it goes from each hilltop to the next. It's super fast and flowy, with whoops, but no major obstacles, just a bit of exposure on each side of the ridg...
Learn more about Tent Rocks

This route is a mix of oil well roads, and mid-width trail ideal for 60" SxSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes. It goes through an open desert near Aztec, New Mexico. It's made up of primitive oil well/natural gas access roads that are less maintained, with shallow ruts and washouts and sandy wash crossings. Y...
Learn more about Three Eyed Monkey

This is an almost 4-mile-long wash loop that is designated for ATVs. The southeast entrance enters the North Twin Wash and heads west. It's a smooth and wide white sand wash, with rock walls to the side, lots of bushes, and pinyon lining the wash. There are several unmarked wash intersections, so th...
Learn more about North Twin Wash to Pickering Arroyo ATV

The north end of this easy trail starts at the end of the road between the baseball diamond and dog park near Aztec, New Mexico. It goes up a steep hill right away and gets up on a ridgeline, overlooking the park and fishing pond. It goes over the rolling hills made of soft clay and dirt, on a mid-w...
Learn more about Anna's Ridge

This 5-mile-long dirt bike trail is an easy singletrack flowing through a flat desert terrain of pinyon bushes, sagebrush, and lots of whoops. It dips into ravines and goes up and down small rolling dirt hills, getting up on small ridgelines. Follow the signs for dirt bike. It crosses the road and p...
Learn more about Apple West Singletrack

This area is a local Bloomfield favorite. The trail crisscrosses Crouch Mesa, with the northwest end starting in Flora Vista near Road 3100 and the northeast access point picking up a little off of 550. While it is a standard two-car width and sometimes deeply rutted track, it cuts across several tr...
Learn more about Crouch Mesa

This is a 1.6-mile-long easy ATV trail that is a mix of dirt trail and easy wash. The west end starts on an oil well road and heads east towards the wash on a dirt trail through flat sagebrush desert terrain. There are ATV signs on the route to follow. Once you reach the wash, you can turn right, an...
Learn more about Wash ATV

This 3.3-mile-long easy ATV trail leaves from a main dirt road on the south end and climbs up a loose dirt hill, then winds up and over the small rolling desert hills and into the washes. It's marked with trail signs to help follow the route. A lot of it is easy sandy washes, but it also has some lo...
Learn more about Coyote Cat ATV

This loop starts from an oil well access road and enters the desert terrain on a mid-width trail ideal for 60" SXSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes. Going counterclockwise from the south, it goes out onto a ridgeline on the soft clay dirt hills in this badlands-type terrain. The ridgeline has a lot of whoops....
Learn more about CMT East Loop

This area is a local Bloomfield favorite. The trail crisscrosses Crouch Mesa, with the northwest end starting in Flora Vista near Road 3100 and the northeast access point picking up a little off of 550. While it is a standard two-car width and sometimes deeply rutted track, it cuts across several tr...
Learn more about Crouch Mesa

This loop starts from an oil well access road and enters the desert terrain on a mid-width trail ideal for 60" SXSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes. Going counterclockwise from the south, it goes out onto a ridgeline on the soft clay dirt hills in this badlands-type terrain. The ridgeline has a lot of whoops....
Learn more about CMT East Loop

This is a mid-width trail ideal for 60" SXSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes that goes through a badlands-type desert terrain between Aztec and Bloomfield, New Mexico. It goes on a ridgeline on the soft clay dirt hills, overlooking the valley below. Watch out for the barbed wire fence that parallels the trail...
Learn more about Bloomfield SXS

This is 1.6 miles of Jeep trail through a sand wash. It starts on oilwell roads on either end and stays in the wash the entire time. There's an off-camber entrance into the wash on the east end that makes it more interesting. It's also only one vehicle wide at times, so it's much narrower than most ...
Learn more about Casanova Mount Wash