Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Kirtland, New Mexico

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

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

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 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

This is an easy ATV trail in the Glade Run Recreation Area that winds between juniper trees in a high desert terrain. It's mostly dirt, with a bit of sand, with lots of whoops. It's ATV width for 50" vehicles and is marked by ATV signs the whole route. The west end starts off of a main dirt road, an...
Learn more about ATV Rim

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 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 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 1.6-mile-long segment of trail is designated for dirt bikes only. It departs from another single track, and goes across a series of soft dirt hills, on a small ridgeline, constantly going up and down the rolling hills. There aren't any obstacles, and it only changes elevation by a few hundred f...
Learn more about Mini Ridge Singletrack

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

Most of this ATV route is through a sand wash between sagebrush and pinyon pine trees. The wash is smooth and flat, with lots of tracks to follow and signs all throughout the wash to help mark the route. The wash is varying widths, sometimes really wide, and sometimes narrow between the bushes. It g...
Learn more about Sand Wash ATV

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 is a 1.5-mile-long segment of a single track between two segments of the ATV trail. It's a narrow singletrack between pinyon pine trees on soft dirt in a flat desert terrain. It goes up and over tiny hills, getting up onto little ridgelines on the small hill. You can see really far into the hor...
Learn more about Ridge Singletrack

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 almost 5 miles of easy two-track through a mix of washes and small ridgelines. It starts at an oil well, going across the high desert terrain on a hardpacked dirt trail on the top of small rolling dirt hills. It winds between big juniper trees, the trail being smooth and easy. There ar...
Learn more about Arroyo ATV

This almost 3-mile-long single track is mostly an easy ridgeline trail with a lot of whoops. The north end starts on State Road 574 at a pinch point and trail sign, then it goes along a fence on a narrow dirt bike trail through soft dirt and small rolling hills. It continues as a ridge line trail th...
Learn more about Imperial Walkers

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 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

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

Experience the stunning views of northwest New Mexico's high desert on the Middle Trail, part of the Glade North network. Many of the canyon walls are multi-colored, with shades of purple, blue, reddish-orange and grey. There are also numerous rock formations. While one section earns the trail its 3...
Learn more about Glade North - Middle trail

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

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

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

This is an easy ATV trail in the Glade Run Recreation Area that winds between juniper trees in a high desert terrain. It's mostly dirt, with a bit of sand, with lots of whoops. It's ATV width for 50" vehicles and is marked by ATV signs the whole route. The west end starts off of a main dirt road, an...
Learn more about ATV Rim

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 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

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

Experience the stunning views of northwest New Mexico's high desert on the Middle Trail, part of the Glade North network. Many of the canyon walls are multi-colored, with shades of purple, blue, reddish-orange and grey. There are also numerous rock formations. While one section earns the trail its 3...
Learn more about Glade North - Middle trail