Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Fruitvale, Colorado

A great route for OHV and dispersed camping access in the Grand Junction area. Mostly loose gravel, though the later portion of the trail gets slightly more demanding with larger rocks, ruts, and washes. The road Y's approximately 3.7 miles in, stay left to continue this route;the Right will lead yo...
Learn more about Mesa County Road 27 1/4

A good resource for dispersed camping in the Grand Junction Area. There is a vast network of offshoots and alternate routes in this BLM area. Monitoring weather conditions prior to arrival is recommended. Use previously disturbed areas only. Pack out what you pack in. High clearance is recommended t...
Learn more about Mesa County Road 25

This is a fun 50-inch trail that is a key connector to other trails in the area. The trail lacks any notable technical features but does have some loose rock and some sand in spots, especially when you drop into a wash on the north side. The trail also features some cool sections of red sand and roc...
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This scenic section of Billings Canyon Road is a key connector to the Third Flats and Bangs Canyon systems. When ridden north to south, the trail starts easy with a couple of punchy climbs/descents. Halfway through the trail, it becomes a little more technical but still generally easy before ending ...
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Flowy 50-inch trail that provides access to a lot of the areas single track. Trail is fast and a lot of fun with only minor technical features and no particularly steep grades. Has some nice turns and a lot of sand, when ridden West to East it would be downhill but it's fun to ride fast in either di...
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This is a good option for connecting Mesa County Roads 25 and 27 1/4 as opposed to backtracking entirely to town. There are other routes in the vicinity to explore, though most either dead end or simply disappear in the cliffs. This is route is mostly easy, flat dirt road, with only a few instances ...
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The route to Monument Rocks begins wide and open, gradually narrowing as it winds deeper into the backcountry. Drivers will encounter exposed rock sections, ruts, and eroded hills, with the terrain becoming more rugged as the trail progresses. The landscape is defined by canyons and steep-sided feat...
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If you're out for a Sunday drive, consider checking out Banana Split. It's a fun, easy, 4x4 trail with minimal technical difficulties. You will encounter ruts, hills, berms, and split-offs; But the view of the Booktrees is stunning! Opportunity for Single track, ATV, SXS, and full-size vehicles to a...
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21 Road South is a route providing further access to dispersed camping and OHV opportunities on BLM lands in the Fruita/Grand Junction area. The road is paved for little ways once on public lands before turning to a mostly flat, gravel road for approximately four miles. At mile four, the road vastly...
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BLM Route 196 is a fast single track in the North Fruita Desert trail system north of Fruita, Colorado. The east end of the trail starts at the back of a public utility plant on a Jeep road right at the corner of the fence, that is easy to miss. The single track departs from the Jeep road right away...
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Starting from the staging area off Bean Ranch Road, BLM Route 87 starts as a wide dirt road, then peels off of the dirt road to the right at a trail sign for Route 87 for dirt bikes only. It's an easy single track through pinyon pine in a desert landscape full of mesas and sandstone rock. In the beg...
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BLM Route 84 is a fun ATV trail with great views from the rim of a canyon looking down to the Gunnison River below. The canyon below is full of red sandstone rock on the sides, and is a stunning sight. From the Southeast end of the trail, the trail is unmarked, but starts off of Jeep Road 80. There ...
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Fairly easy trail, the majority of the trail is dirt. There is one section of the trail that is gravel but then turns back into dirt. The trail is on the backside of the Colorado National Monument. During the trail, you will encounter some ruts caused by vehicles when the trail has been wet. The rut...
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BLM Route 90 is a short ATV trail within the trail system located off of Bean Ranch Road. It branches off of ATV Route 89 at both ends. From the north entrance to the trail, it leaves Route 89 with a small hill climb and a small rocky ledge at the top of the hill climb, already making it more intere...
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This is a mostly easy two-wheel drive dirt and gravel road. The last few miles do require a high clearance vehicle. This route is an out and back through BLM lands with lots of Pinyon and Juniper trees, open sagebrush parks, and views of beautiful red sandstone cliffs and canyons off in the distance...
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This is a short ATV trail accessed off of Bean Ranch Road in the trail system near Whitewater, Colorado. The trail takes you out to an overlook of the Gunnison River and a red rock canyon way far below you from the rim of the mesa. It's a pretty wide trail, almost road width, with wide sweeping turn...
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This trail begins near the Cactus Park Staging area right off Highway 141 near Whitewater. The trail is accessed off BLM Route 013 which is an easy road. The first mile or so of the trail can be a bit hard to follow as it goes through some sand and slick rock sections while remaining pretty easy. Ab...
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This single track is similar to many of the other single tracks in the lower part of the North Fruita Desert, as it is a smooth and narrow single track that flows over the rolling hills in this valley. It's pretty straight, fast, and flowy over green grass meadows, with barely any rocks in the trail...
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BLM Route 186 is a fast and easy single track that flows across green meadows and valleys in the lower section of the north Fruita desert. It starts in a green grassy meadow on a narrow track that in springtime, will likely have some mud. It looks like the cows use this trail too, as there are lots ...
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BLM Route 89 is a short ATV trail in the trail system accessed off of Bean Ranch Road near Grand Junction, Colorado. It has wide swiping turns on a road width trail through pinyon pine on a desert mesa. It's mostly dirt with small loose rocks sparsely covering the trail, and is very easy. There are ...
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A great route for OHV and dispersed camping access in the Grand Junction area. Mostly loose gravel, though the later portion of the trail gets slightly more demanding with larger rocks, ruts, and washes. The road Y's approximately 3.7 miles in, stay left to continue this route;the Right will lead yo...
Learn more about Mesa County Road 27 1/4

A good resource for dispersed camping in the Grand Junction Area. There is a vast network of offshoots and alternate routes in this BLM area. Monitoring weather conditions prior to arrival is recommended. Use previously disturbed areas only. Pack out what you pack in. High clearance is recommended t...
Learn more about Mesa County Road 25

This is a fun 50-inch trail that is a key connector to other trails in the area. The trail lacks any notable technical features but does have some loose rock and some sand in spots, especially when you drop into a wash on the north side. The trail also features some cool sections of red sand and roc...
Learn more about Nut-N-2-It

This scenic section of Billings Canyon Road is a key connector to the Third Flats and Bangs Canyon systems. When ridden north to south, the trail starts easy with a couple of punchy climbs/descents. Halfway through the trail, it becomes a little more technical but still generally easy before ending ...
Learn more about Billings Canyon Road

A great route for OHV and dispersed camping access in the Grand Junction area. Mostly loose gravel, though the later portion of the trail gets slightly more demanding with larger rocks, ruts, and washes. The road Y's approximately 3.7 miles in, stay left to continue this route;the Right will lead yo...
Learn more about Mesa County Road 27 1/4

A good resource for dispersed camping in the Grand Junction Area. There is a vast network of offshoots and alternate routes in this BLM area. Monitoring weather conditions prior to arrival is recommended. Use previously disturbed areas only. Pack out what you pack in. High clearance is recommended t...
Learn more about Mesa County Road 25

This scenic section of Billings Canyon Road is a key connector to the Third Flats and Bangs Canyon systems. When ridden north to south, the trail starts easy with a couple of punchy climbs/descents. Halfway through the trail, it becomes a little more technical but still generally easy before ending ...
Learn more about Billings Canyon Road

This is a good option for connecting Mesa County Roads 25 and 27 1/4 as opposed to backtracking entirely to town. There are other routes in the vicinity to explore, though most either dead end or simply disappear in the cliffs. This is route is mostly easy, flat dirt road, with only a few instances ...
Learn more about 25 and 27 1/4 Connector