Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Livingston, Montana

The trailhead is located just minutes from the historic downtown of Livingston, with plenty of opportunities to get fuel and other supplies. The trailhead is also roughly 29 miles from Chico Hot Springs and Resort. The trail consists mostly of gravel but does degrade into a dirt road toward the top ...
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Willow Creek South is a less trafficked and easy ATV trail through the Gallatin National Forest. The east entrance to this trail is on Willow Creek Divide Road #6957 when the road fades and it turns into more of a two-track, but there is no sign right at the beginning. If you keep following the trac...
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The Willow Creek North ATV Trail connects Jackson Creek Road #977 to the North Fork Willow Creek Road #6901. Most of the 3 miles go along a wide shelfy path cutting across the grassy mountainside full of tall skinny pine trees. A couple of sections have more embedded rock surfaces and chunky loose r...
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Jackson Creek is an 11-mile ATV loop in the Gallatin National Forest that is open to vehicles 50" or less from 6/16 - 10/14. There is a staging area on the west side of the loop at the Jackson Creek Trailhead. You can access several other easy ATV trails in the area off of this loop. This trail is o...
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Jackson Divide Trail is a 1-mile connector ATV trail between the Willow Creek North ATV Trail and the Bishop Park ATV Trail. It's very easy, the majority of it being a smooth dirt two-track that is very similar to the rest of the ATV trails in the area. There are small loose rocks on the surface of ...
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This is an easy ATV route through the Gallatin National Forest. This trail connects North Fork Willow Creek Road #6901 and Willow Creek Road #6600. From the north end, the first 2 miles climb up several hundred feet elevation, with several steeper spots. It's overall an easy two-track though, with s...
Learn more about Willow Creek North Spur ATV

This is a half mile long single track that connects the Bishop Park ATV trail to the Bangtail Divide single track. It's easy, fast, flowy, and smooth, with no rocks. It goes through grassy meadows, and has some braided lines up some of the steeper hills. The first quarter mile is flat, and then it g...
Learn more about Bishop Park Connector

This is a 2.7-mile segment of the Bangtail Divide single track that parallels the Bishop Park ATV Trail. The south end starts at the intersection with the Bishop Park Connector Trail and a nonmotorized trail that goes to the Doyle Cabin. It goes north as a narrow trail through pine trees along the e...
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This is a really pretty drive to some nice views and campsites. Nothing technical to worry about, a car could make it through with some determination. There is a small water crossing and some ruts, but nothing to be concerned about. It's a nice spot to watch the sunset or get out of town for a nigh...
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The Bangtail Creek Loop Trail is a straightforward ATV trail open June 16th to Oct 14th to vehicles 50" or less. It starts on a mountain top as a grassy, overgrown two-track. The trail's most challenging part is small ruts, small loose rocks, and wide gradual switchbacks. Sometimes, there are sudden...
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This route is a standard gravel road that is similar to many roads that take you to remote trailheads in Montana and across the mountain west. There are plenty of potholes and washboard sections of the road, but assuming it's the right time of year, this route presents no real difficult parts or tec...
Learn more about Goose Creek Trailhead

Bishop Park ATV trail is almost 7 miles long running north to south through the Gallatin National Forest. The north end starts on Miles Creek Road, and it ends at the intersection with the Jackson Creek ATV Loop. The majority is a very easy and wide two-track on smooth dirt. It gradually climbs up f...
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This 3.4-mile-long ATV trail goes through the Gallatin National Forest and makes a loop off of Miles Creek Road. This trail is more faint and overgrown and less trafficked compared to the other ATV trails in the area. It's very curvy along the shelfy edge of a mountain, lined with lots of pine trees...
Learn more about Canyon Creek Trail

This is a nice drive through the Bridger range that most vehicles can do. The trail forks to Skunk Creek, which has some deep puddles, but nothing a stock truck or SUV wouldn't be able to handle. There are nice views of the Bangtail divide and Crazy Mountains when you reach the top.
Learn more about Olsen Creek

The start of Olsen Creek Road is your basic gravel road, with somewhat deep potholes and parts of it washed out. There are no real obstacles or technical portions. There are tight switchbacks, so be mindful of oncoming traffic as well as the steep shoulders. There are privately owned parcels the rou...
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Bangtail Divide is an almost 13 mile long single track through the Gallatin National Forest. It starts at the Bracket Creek Trailhead off Highway 86, north of Bozeman, Montana. It leaves the large dirt parking lot by crossing a wooden bridge, then immediately goes into several easy and wide switchba...
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Truman Gulch is an easy spur trail off of the Bridger Foothills trail that descends 1,400 feet down to the Truman Gulch Trailhead. It looks like there has been a lot of trail maintenance on this to clear it of rocks, bench out any ruts, and make it overall very smooth and flowy, as it is also a popu...
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Fairy Creek is an ATV Trail for vehicles 50" or less. It's also a snowmobile path after December 2. It leaves from the Battle Ridge dirt parking lot on the west side of Highway 86 and starts out as a wide, smooth, dirt path lined with tall grass and white fir trees. It has wide-open views through th...
Learn more about Fairy Creek - FS 500

The Middle Cottonwood Single Track starts on the west end at a small dirt parking lot on a well-maintained wide dirt path. There are many hikers on this trail, so please respect other users. It goes over a narrow wooden bridge and continues on an easy trail with some embedded rocks but mostly smooth...
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Ross Pass is a 2.5-mile-long single track through the Gallatin National Forest. From the west end, it drops down from the summit of Ross Pass and the intersection with the Bridger Foothills, Bridger Ridge, and Upper Brackett Creek single tracks. It's a gradual descent the whole way, dropping 1,000 f...
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The trailhead is located just minutes from the historic downtown of Livingston, with plenty of opportunities to get fuel and other supplies. The trailhead is also roughly 29 miles from Chico Hot Springs and Resort. The trail consists mostly of gravel but does degrade into a dirt road toward the top ...
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Willow Creek South is a less trafficked and easy ATV trail through the Gallatin National Forest. The east entrance to this trail is on Willow Creek Divide Road #6957 when the road fades and it turns into more of a two-track, but there is no sign right at the beginning. If you keep following the trac...
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The Willow Creek North ATV Trail connects Jackson Creek Road #977 to the North Fork Willow Creek Road #6901. Most of the 3 miles go along a wide shelfy path cutting across the grassy mountainside full of tall skinny pine trees. A couple of sections have more embedded rock surfaces and chunky loose r...
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Jackson Creek is an 11-mile ATV loop in the Gallatin National Forest that is open to vehicles 50" or less from 6/16 - 10/14. There is a staging area on the west side of the loop at the Jackson Creek Trailhead. You can access several other easy ATV trails in the area off of this loop. This trail is o...
Learn more about Jackson Creek ATV

The trailhead is located just minutes from the historic downtown of Livingston, with plenty of opportunities to get fuel and other supplies. The trailhead is also roughly 29 miles from Chico Hot Springs and Resort. The trail consists mostly of gravel but does degrade into a dirt road toward the top ...
Learn more about Livingston Peak Road

This route is a standard gravel road that is similar to many roads that take you to remote trailheads in Montana and across the mountain west. There are plenty of potholes and washboard sections of the road, but assuming it's the right time of year, this route presents no real difficult parts or tec...
Learn more about Goose Creek Trailhead

The start of Olsen Creek Road is your basic gravel road, with somewhat deep potholes and parts of it washed out. There are no real obstacles or technical portions. There are tight switchbacks, so be mindful of oncoming traffic as well as the steep shoulders. There are privately owned parcels the rou...
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A rough, but maintained forest service trail off of the main Langohr Road in Hyalite Canyon. There are various dispersed camping spots off of this trail, as well as several beautiful viewpoints to see the Canyon and the Canyon Road from. Keep in mind the rules (posted earlier in the Canyon) about di...
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