Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Eagle, Colorado

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School House Rock ATV

The School House Rock ATV trail is part of the Hardscrabble OHV system, and is accessed off of the Hockett Gulch trail. The east end of the trail is a dead end, making this an…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Hockett Gulch

Hockett Gulch is a short trail in the Hardscrabble trail system that mostly goes through a sagebrush desert landscape. From south to north, it steadily drops 400 feet over 1.6 miles, so it is mostly…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Tick Alley

Tick Alley is a fun single track in the Hardscrabble Trail system by Gypsum, Colorado. From the south end of the trail, it drops almost 1000 feet over 2.5 miles. At the intersection with Itch…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

8385-D

The east end of this single track starts at an intersection with the Hockett Gulch trail, then immediately climbs up to the top of the surrounding hills. It continues similarly to The Maze Trail where…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Fast Times

The Fast Times trail is a short trail in the Hardscrabble trail system near Gypsum, Colorado. It starts as a fast and straight trail, then intersects with the south end of the Star Wars trail,…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Star Wars

Star Wars is a wash trail in the Hardscrabble Trail system near Gypsum, Colorado. It is aptly named Star Wars since riding at the bottom of a curvy wash resembles the feeling of flying fast…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Elk Drop

The Elk Drop trail is made up of several segments of single track connected by small sections of dirt road with varying terrain. Starting from the intersection with Fast Times, it departs to the left…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Itch

Itch is a fast and flowy single track that snakes through wide-open sagebrush meadows in the Hardscrabble Trail System near Gypsum, Colorado. The south end of the trail starts at the east end of the…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Easy Rider

Easy Rider is a short single track in the Hardscrabble Mountain trail system near Gypsum, Colorado. From the northeast end of the trail, it starts on BLM Route 8384D, which is a dirt road through…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Cat Walk

Cat Walk is a short narrow single track that side hills across a mountain in the Hardscrabble Trail system south of Gypsum, Colorado. From the west end of the trail, it starts as a narrow…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

The Maze Trail

The Maze Trail is part of the Hardscrabble Trail System in Gypsum, Colorado, and is one of the closest trails to the staging area accessed off of Spring Creek Road. It starts winding in and…
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Total Miles
4.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp / Su

8501

Trail 8501 starts from the intersection with 8501F near the dirt road 8502C. It side hills across the side of the mountain on a narrow dirt trail with loose small rocks. It has several steep…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

8501D & E

This set of trails in the Bocco Mountain recreation area is a tight and twisty singletrack in a low alpine terrain made up of pinyon pine, pine trees and sage brush. It departs from 8501C…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

8501A, B & C

This is a fun and moderately challenging single track in the Bocco Mountain recreation area. This trail is made up of very tight turns through a variety of terrain. The entire trail is like a…
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Total Miles
2.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp / Su

8503

From south to north, single-track trail 8503 starts off with several big downhills on loose dirt with small rock drop-offs. The downhills are very steep with some small rocks in the trail and often have…
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Total Miles
2.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

8503C

8503C is a fast and fun trail to rip in the Bocco Mountain trail system, made up of slaloming switchbacks with banked corners. The trail has wide sweeping switchbacks the whole way through a sagebrush…
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Total Miles
1.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

8502A

8502A is an easy single-track trail in the Bocco Mountain trail system that is accessed at the south end of the dirt road BLM Route 8502. The trail goes straight east in the shrubs, lightly…
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Total Miles
0.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

BDR Section 05 Gypsum to Radium Spring

Gypsum to Radium Spring follows part of Section 05 of the Backcountry Discovery Route mostly along the Colorado River. Starting from Gypsum it's a fun narrow climb up and down Trail Gulch to Road 301.…
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Total Miles
48.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

8503A & B

Single track trails 8503A & B make a loop starting and ending on the dirt road BLM Route 8502. Going counter clockwise, the trail comes down from the road on a trail that is washed…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Muddy Pass & Piney Guard Station

This is an easy, scenic drive open June 21 through November 22. There are plenty of dispersed camping sites, all of them with amazing views. The first 6.5 miles are highly trafficked because of Piney…
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Total Miles
28.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Red Table North 464

This road is pretty simple with a few spots to pull over and get a good view of the red rocks.As far as difficulty it's pretty easy, a little bumpy but nothing a stock 4wd…
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Total Miles
3.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Red Table Road

This trail is very rocky and you will find soft red dirt on this trail that will become mud in wet conditions. There are multiple water puddles; some can be deep with no bypass. It…
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Total Miles
12.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp

Coffee Pot Road

Start your ride with beautiful views of Eagle Valley and the Colorado River and continue into White River National Forest. Dispersed camping allowed inside the forest, and there are a few pay campgrounds. Unlicensed vehicles…
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Total Miles
27.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Milepost One Trail

This short single track is mostly a fun, fast, flowy connector from North Fork Cattle Creek Trail to Red Table Mountain Road. This trail is much easier than Lone Pine and North Fork Cattle Creek.…
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Total Miles
1.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

8601C

This is a short and easy desert single track in the McCoy Trail System that goes up and over the rolling desert mesas, on loose dirt, with loose small rock and embedded slab rock. It…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

8601B

This 1-mile desert trail mostly goes through a sandy wash that is a mix of red dirt and sand with loose rock mixed in. There are a couple of easier rock slab obstacles throughout the…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

8600E

8600E is a unique trail for the area because it goes along the bottom of a small creek bed with several creek crossings, in a more wooded section under leafy trees, rather than up high…
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Total Miles
0.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

8619

8619 is designated for dirt bikes only but starts off more like an old road that is now closed to full-width vehicles. You have to take 8618 from RCR 1 Road to access the southeast…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Light Hill Road

BLM Road #8334 is not challenging in itself, but presents great views. There are many spurs with plenty of space for camping. Each spur leads to a great view of the surrounding mountains, valleys, and…
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Total Miles
5.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Powerline - Cunningham Road

This trail follows a large section of powerline, hence the name of the trail, which connects Hagerman Pass to Diemer & Sellar lakes in the White River National Forest. This trail takes you to a…
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Total Miles
5.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

ATV Trails Near Eagle, Colorado

School House Rock ATV

The School House Rock ATV trail is part of the Hardscrabble OHV system, and is accessed off of the Hockett Gulch trail. The east end of the trail is a dead end, making this an…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Hockett Gulch

Hockett Gulch is a short trail in the Hardscrabble trail system that mostly goes through a sagebrush desert landscape. From south to north, it steadily drops 400 feet over 1.6 miles, so it is mostly…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Muddy Pass & Piney Guard Station

This is an easy, scenic drive open June 21 through November 22. There are plenty of dispersed camping sites, all of them with amazing views. The first 6.5 miles are highly trafficked because of Piney…
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Total Miles
28.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Red Table North 464

This road is pretty simple with a few spots to pull over and get a good view of the red rocks.As far as difficulty it's pretty easy, a little bumpy but nothing a stock 4wd…
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Total Miles
3.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Red Table Road

This trail is very rocky and you will find soft red dirt on this trail that will become mud in wet conditions. There are multiple water puddles; some can be deep with no bypass. It…
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Total Miles
12.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp

Coffee Pot Road

Start your ride with beautiful views of Eagle Valley and the Colorado River and continue into White River National Forest. Dispersed camping allowed inside the forest, and there are a few pay campgrounds. Unlicensed vehicles…
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Total Miles
27.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

UTV/Side-by-Side Near Eagle, Colorado

Muddy Pass & Piney Guard Station

This is an easy, scenic drive open June 21 through November 22. There are plenty of dispersed camping sites, all of them with amazing views. The first 6.5 miles are highly trafficked because of Piney…
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Total Miles
28.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Red Table North 464

This road is pretty simple with a few spots to pull over and get a good view of the red rocks.As far as difficulty it's pretty easy, a little bumpy but nothing a stock 4wd…
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Total Miles
3.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Red Table Road

This trail is very rocky and you will find soft red dirt on this trail that will become mud in wet conditions. There are multiple water puddles; some can be deep with no bypass. It…
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Total Miles
12.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp

Coffee Pot Road

Start your ride with beautiful views of Eagle Valley and the Colorado River and continue into White River National Forest. Dispersed camping allowed inside the forest, and there are a few pay campgrounds. Unlicensed vehicles…
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Total Miles
27.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Light Hill Road

BLM Road #8334 is not challenging in itself, but presents great views. There are many spurs with plenty of space for camping. Each spur leads to a great view of the surrounding mountains, valleys, and…
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Total Miles
5.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa