Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Dubois, Idaho

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Stoddard Creek to Indian Creek Butte

This route is easy most of the time with a few places that have some large rocks and hills. The trail is open to 50-inch vehicles and is a great ride with amazing views. You…
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Total Miles
22
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

Threemile Road

This road, signed as FS 021 on the ground, is a well-maintained gravel road up to its intersection with the Middle Threemile Road (FS 477). Beyond that intersection, the road narrows, deteriorates, and becomes more…
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Total Miles
6.9
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Van Noy-Stoddard Road

This is a short Forest Service Road that leads to a trailhead. There are a few dispersed campsites along this road. But the road itself is pretty rough and narrow, so those campsites are not…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Stoddard Creek Loop Trail

This is a lovely little 3.6-mile loop trail that is convenient to the Stoddard Creek campground and the dispersed campsites along Stoddard Creek Road. It twists and turns through impressive stands of large fir trees…
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Total Miles
3.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Corral Creek Road - FS 177

This road is a well-maintained dirt road up to the Forest Service boundary. Beyond that, the road is heavily rutted and presents some moderate challenges to travel. The road follows the creek and passes through…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Stoddard Creek Ridge Trail

This trail is a ridgeline trail along its entire 3.5-mile length. Most of that ridgeline is free from timber, so there are abundant opportunities for sweeping panoramic views. The trail tops out at about 7,500…
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Total Miles
3.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Middle Threemile Road

This is a nice, wide logging road that is suitable for high clearance vehicles. There are a few rocky ruts that need to be navigated carefully, but in general, it is an easy and relaxed…
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Total Miles
3.5
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Spring Creek Road - FS 889

This road provides a delightful trip through a beautiful mixture of dense stands of fir, huge patches of aspen, and open meadows. The road is a one-lane dirt track with several sections badly rutted with…
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Total Miles
3.3
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

East 2200 North

Smooth, flat, and loose gravel is what this route is all about. It's super wide with no washboard. There is access to the St. Antony Sand Dunes Open Area off this trail. These access trails…
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Total Miles
8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

West Modoc Creek Trail

This trail is the seamless extension of Trail 1013. It follows a ridgeline that begins the descent into the Modoc Valley and eventually to the access road to Interstate 15. The trail starts out in…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Modoc Roads

This route is a series of Forest Service roads provided to assist visitors from the end of the West Modoc Creek Trail to the service road on Interstate 15. From that point, travelers can find…
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Total Miles
8.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

A Mile and a Half Road

First of all, it's closer to three miles, but maybe they first ran it on foot, and it seemed shorter. This is a fun trail that is mostly traveled by cattle. It is a sandy…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Camas Creek Road

This road travels up the Camas Creek drainage for about 4 miles. What is surprising is the visual impact of the foliage to be seen from the road. The mixture of conifers, aspen, and willow…
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Total Miles
3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Pete Creek Road

This is a fairly typical Forest Service gravel road up the Pete Creek drainage. The mixture of vegetation types in this drainage provides a stunning visual experience. This is a really nice easy drive and…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Camas Creek Trail

This trail takes off from the end of the Camas Creek Road and steadily climbs to the Continental Divide at an elevation of 8,167 feet. The lower portion of the road winds its way through…
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Total Miles
2.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Mahogany Peak

Mahogany Peak is an out-and-back trail, or you can return on another route if so chosen. You start at the air-down spot right off of the highway and work your way up into Chandler Canyon.…
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Total Miles
21.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Wi / Sp

Collapsed Lava Dome Trail

The terrain is pockmarked with collapsed lava tubes and lava domes that have come to form the hills and valleys of this area. While the trail is relatively moderately traversed, lava rock pops out of…
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Total Miles
5.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Price Peet Road

The first 7 miles of this BLM road travel through a very dense beautiful mixed conifer forest. After breaking out of the forested area, the road continues to gently descend through open hilly grasslands until…
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Total Miles
10.7
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Pete Creek Trail

This short 1.3-mile trail leads from the end of the Pete Creek Road north to the Continental Divide. It goes through some dense timberland and occasionally breaks out into meadowlands at its upper end. The…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Red Rock Lakes

Easy, yet extremely remote route through the historic Centennial Valley. Highlights include the Red Rock Lakes Wildlife Refuge with a chance to view many important waterfowl species, including the trumpeter swan, which was once near…
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Total Miles
53.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Market Canal Road

Market Canal Road is a simple trail that takes you through the sagebrush just west of the Menan Butte. The trail is wide and mostly flat with sections of lava rock and sand but offers…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su / Wi

Civil Defense Cave

The Civil Defense Cave trail is a well-maintained, grated road for the first 4 miles until the turn off of Crooked Road onto Civil Defense Cave Road. The last mile is not grated but still…
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Total Miles
4.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Beer Run

The trail starts near Saint Anthony Sand Dunes in open desert cattle land. The route, then takes you through forests by the Island Park Reservoir, and ends by following between the road and Henrys Fork.…
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Total Miles
50.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Centennial Divide

This easy and scenic route connects Montana's Centennial Valley and Ruby River Reservoir. Along its path, you'll pass a well-known bison ranch, trace portions of the Ruby River, and spend most of your trip flanked…
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Total Miles
54.4
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su

East Fork Dry Creek

This is a fun short ride up a beautiful mountain trail with some fantastic views. Depending upon the time of year, there will be flowers and deep green grasses. Later in the year, the Quaking…
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Total Miles
4.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

July Creek Road (20303)

This is a main byway Forest Service Road that will connect Highway 20 (through additional roads) and the St. Anthony area if other roads are followed. People can go to the St. Anthony Sand Dunes…
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Total Miles
10.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

West Fork Ridge Road

Montana is "Big Sky Country," and driving this road makes that phrase meaningful and personal. This road, labeled FS 8261, travels along a broad open ridge at an elevation of about 8,000 feet. The 360-degree…
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Total Miles
8.1
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Round Top Road

This short road connects West Fork Ridge Road to Bannack Pass Road, also known as the Bannack Stage Road. Round Top Road also passes through a quarry for travertine, a starkly white rock used in…
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Total Miles
3.3
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

White Pine Ridge Route

This nearly 12-mile route accesses a ridgeline known as the White Pine Ridge. It is almost a continuous, but relatively gentle, climb from about 6,700 feet to just a little more than 9,000 feet. At…
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Total Miles
10.8
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Long Canyon Trail

This is a very well-designed, constructed, and maintained trail for 50" ATVs and dirt bikes. The trail winds through well-forested terrain and includes several steep grades. The trail base is primarily dirt and gravel and…
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Total Miles
3.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

ATV Trails Near Dubois, Idaho

Stoddard Creek to Indian Creek Butte

This route is easy most of the time with a few places that have some large rocks and hills. The trail is open to 50-inch vehicles and is a great ride with amazing views. You…
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Total Miles
22
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

Threemile Road

This road, signed as FS 021 on the ground, is a well-maintained gravel road up to its intersection with the Middle Threemile Road (FS 477). Beyond that intersection, the road narrows, deteriorates, and becomes more…
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Total Miles
6.9
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Van Noy-Stoddard Road

This is a short Forest Service Road that leads to a trailhead. There are a few dispersed campsites along this road. But the road itself is pretty rough and narrow, so those campsites are not…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Stoddard Creek Loop Trail

This is a lovely little 3.6-mile loop trail that is convenient to the Stoddard Creek campground and the dispersed campsites along Stoddard Creek Road. It twists and turns through impressive stands of large fir trees…
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Total Miles
3.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Corral Creek Road - FS 177

This road is a well-maintained dirt road up to the Forest Service boundary. Beyond that, the road is heavily rutted and presents some moderate challenges to travel. The road follows the creek and passes through…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Stoddard Creek Ridge Trail

This trail is a ridgeline trail along its entire 3.5-mile length. Most of that ridgeline is free from timber, so there are abundant opportunities for sweeping panoramic views. The trail tops out at about 7,500…
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Total Miles
3.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

UTV/Side-by-Side Near Dubois, Idaho

Threemile Road

This road, signed as FS 021 on the ground, is a well-maintained gravel road up to its intersection with the Middle Threemile Road (FS 477). Beyond that intersection, the road narrows, deteriorates, and becomes more…
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Total Miles
6.9
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Van Noy-Stoddard Road

This is a short Forest Service Road that leads to a trailhead. There are a few dispersed campsites along this road. But the road itself is pretty rough and narrow, so those campsites are not…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Corral Creek Road - FS 177

This road is a well-maintained dirt road up to the Forest Service boundary. Beyond that, the road is heavily rutted and presents some moderate challenges to travel. The road follows the creek and passes through…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Middle Threemile Road

This is a nice, wide logging road that is suitable for high clearance vehicles. There are a few rocky ruts that need to be navigated carefully, but in general, it is an easy and relaxed…
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Total Miles
3.5
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Spring Creek Road - FS 889

This road provides a delightful trip through a beautiful mixture of dense stands of fir, huge patches of aspen, and open meadows. The road is a one-lane dirt track with several sections badly rutted with…
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Total Miles
3.3
Tech Rating
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

East 2200 North

Smooth, flat, and loose gravel is what this route is all about. It's super wide with no washboard. There is access to the St. Antony Sand Dunes Open Area off this trail. These access trails…
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Total Miles
8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa