Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Fallon, Nevada

Lunchtime Rip is a short fun trail consisting of a sandy salt flat and packed dirt with many ruts and routes along with a short hill climb meeting up with Powerline Road. This a fun local spot commonly ran over lunchtime as a fun break from school or work.
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This route takes you from the trailhead located off Hwy 50, East of Silver Springs, Nevada to Six Mile Beach and loops back to the bridge over the Carson River below the Lahontan Reservoir Dam. Six Mile Beach is located on the east shore of Lahontan. The trail begins on a very wide, graded dirt road...
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The route takes you from Sand Mt. Recreational Area to the Red Ant Mine. Red Ant Mine was an old tungsten mine. Not much of the infrastructure is left. There is a head frame, a collapsed 50's era airstream trailer, and concrete foundations for a bucket line that once stretched across the valley. Did...
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The trail takes you by some of the sites in the Hot Springs Mountains. These sites include Eagle Rock, Eagle Salt Works site, an abandoned telecommunications building, Airway Beacon site, and a few mine sites. Spend some time exploring along the way, as well as enjoying the views of the 40-mile dese...
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This route takes you to a Mercury Prospect. Not many remains of the old mining buildings, just a concrete floor. The main road is a well-groomed wash until it turn off onto an old mining road. This track has moderate erosion but is wide enough to get heavy equipment up.
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An historical trail with Petroglyphs at the end
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Clifton Flat is a valley known for herds of wild horses and herds of Pronghorn Antelope. The trailhead starts at the unlocked barbed wire wild horse protection gate. Make sure to properly close and latch the gate. The trail begins on a graded dirt road. As you descend, the road narrows to a double-t...
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This trail has a lot of washboards, rocked gravel/dirt roads. You can go a comfortable 40 MPH, if you air down, the ride can be smoother. This takes you below the old ranch homestead of Boyer. There is a geothermal plant that sits behind it. Do not go there, they watch that road to the plant. You wi...
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The trail starts on Earthquake Road off of Highway 50. This is not a difficult trail as it follows dirt roads most of the way, but it provides some nice desert scenery and follows a fault line for the first portion of the trail. All wheel drive and decent tires are recommended as there are a lot of ...
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There are 20+ military tanks left out in the desert of Dixie Valley. The road is flat and graveled. A car will have no problems. The tanks were placed on old homesteads by the Navy for pilots to train on "threat identification." If you walk around you will find 5.56 caliber blank cases and 50. calib...
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This route takes you from the outskirts of Dayton, Nevada to Clifton Flats. The trail head starts at the unlocked wild horse protection gate. Make sure to properly close and latch the gate. The trail begins on a graded dirt road. As you ascend, the road narrows to a double track trail. The surface v...
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The Narrows is a pole line road that runs between Fernley Nevada, and Winnemucca Lake. Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed in northwest Nevada that features the oldest known petroglyphs in North America. It is quite remote once you get out of Fernley, cell service is spotty, and you may not see anyone...
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Julian Drive, at its North end, intersects with US 95A (39.1609, -119.1922). At the South end, it intersects with Sunrise Pass, where the trail changes its name to Artesia Rd. Julian Drive is a graded dirt road and an easy drive. In places on the trail, there are a few embedded rocks, having bee...
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These are old mining roads that weave their way through what was once the Nightingale Mine. Active in the 40s, the mine was extracting tungsten ore for the war effort. The are still a few structures on the site that can be explored. The road is a mix of sand and gravel. It's not maintained but it's ...
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This flat gravel road is well maintained. Lovelock Cave was in use as early as 2580 BC but was not intensively inhabited until around 1000 BC. People occupied Lovelock Cave for over 4,000 years. The initial discoveries of artifacts and excavations, in the early 20th century, were not very well execu...
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The trail starts at a cattle guard after you leave the staging area. The first few miles are soft sand with little to no obstruction. The area to the north side of the trail is a public access shooting area. Once past the shooting area, the trail narrows and drops down a dry creek valley before comi...
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This road begins at Dayton, Nevada, and gradually rises in elevation from 4367'' to 7128' into the Pine Nut Mountains and is located on mostly BLM lands. The trail starts off over a flat alluvial plain and then climbs out of the wash into the mountains. Sage, Juniper, and Pine trees are abundant as ...
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The route takes you along the east side of the dry lake bed and up into the Nightingale Range. Up in the hills are two, 1950s school buses that were used to transport workers to the mines in the area. You will also find the foundation of an ore processing mill. Not much is left of the mill. The road...
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This is a well-traveled gravel road. On the south end of the route, the road curves around a sand dune that can cover up the trail at times. Many of the caves on this end are overhanging. The major site is a tufa dome that is named Nicolarsen which is located near Highway 447.
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This trail can connect you from Big Buck Meadows Trail to the Saddle of two over 8,000-foot peaks with spectacular views all around. The trail is VERY narrow with lots of Pinon trees and some boulders 2-3 feet at most. It can be very overgrown, so bringing a chainsaw and trimmers is recommended. Pin...
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Lunchtime Rip is a short fun trail consisting of a sandy salt flat and packed dirt with many ruts and routes along with a short hill climb meeting up with Powerline Road. This a fun local spot commonly ran over lunchtime as a fun break from school or work.
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The route takes you from Sand Mt. Recreational Area to the Red Ant Mine. Red Ant Mine was an old tungsten mine. Not much of the infrastructure is left. There is a head frame, a collapsed 50's era airstream trailer, and concrete foundations for a bucket line that once stretched across the valley. Did...
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The trail takes you by some of the sites in the Hot Springs Mountains. These sites include Eagle Rock, Eagle Salt Works site, an abandoned telecommunications building, Airway Beacon site, and a few mine sites. Spend some time exploring along the way, as well as enjoying the views of the 40-mile dese...
Learn more about Hot Springs Mountains

This route takes you to a Mercury Prospect. Not many remains of the old mining buildings, just a concrete floor. The main road is a well-groomed wash until it turn off onto an old mining road. This track has moderate erosion but is wide enough to get heavy equipment up.
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Lunchtime Rip is a short fun trail consisting of a sandy salt flat and packed dirt with many ruts and routes along with a short hill climb meeting up with Powerline Road. This a fun local spot commonly ran over lunchtime as a fun break from school or work.
Learn more about Lunchtime Rip

The route takes you from Sand Mt. Recreational Area to the Red Ant Mine. Red Ant Mine was an old tungsten mine. Not much of the infrastructure is left. There is a head frame, a collapsed 50's era airstream trailer, and concrete foundations for a bucket line that once stretched across the valley. Did...
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The trail takes you by some of the sites in the Hot Springs Mountains. These sites include Eagle Rock, Eagle Salt Works site, an abandoned telecommunications building, Airway Beacon site, and a few mine sites. Spend some time exploring along the way, as well as enjoying the views of the 40-mile dese...
Learn more about Hot Springs Mountains

This route takes you to a Mercury Prospect. Not many remains of the old mining buildings, just a concrete floor. The main road is a well-groomed wash until it turn off onto an old mining road. This track has moderate erosion but is wide enough to get heavy equipment up.
Learn more about Apache Mercury Claims