Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Lochsloy, Washington

During the summer months, this is an easy gravel road up to Tupso Pass. In the winter months, it can become a bit muddy and snowy on the trail. This is a nice scenic trail to go up and have lunch on the mountain or just get out in nature. There are beautiful mountain views. There isn't really any ca...
Learn more about TUPSO Pass Mountain Stroll

Green Mountain Road starts as a well-groomed dirt/ gravel track with a spectacular forest surround. This is a popular location for people to come shooting, with many small pullouts along the first half of the trail. Please be responsible and pick up your casings afterward! It climbs in elevation rat...
Learn more about Green Mountain Road/NF-011

Forest Service Road 4200 to the Mount Pilchuck Trailhead is a scenic and enjoyable mountain drive in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The road is primarily well-maintained gravel with some paved sections near the upper trailhead, making it accessible for most high-clearance vehicles and S...
Learn more about Mount Pilchuck - FS 4200

Boardman Lake Trail starts out as a standard gravel FS road but is laden with relatively large potholes and the elevation climbs quickly. There are many turnouts for dispersed camping but none offer privacy. After about 2 miles, you will reach a "Y" in the road where you can go to the Boardman Lake ...
Learn more about Boardman Lake Trail

This is the 2nd more intense trail off Schweitzer Creek Road, the other is Boardman Lake Trail. This trail is a bit more technical than Boardman Lake and a bit longer in distance. Similarly, there are large loose rocks and deep ruts to navigate but offers much more stunning scenery including a bridg...
Learn more about Bear Lake Trail

Lake Cavanaugh Road is a point-to-point wide gravel road that connects Lake Cavanaugh and SR530. This trail is well-maintained and open to all vehicle traffic, however, some larger vehicles will find some of the switchbacks on the southern side of the trail to be tight. There are several short steep...
Learn more about Lake Cavanaugh Road

This is a perfect trail for beginners and low-clearance vehicles alike, or simply to escape the city. The terrain is all gravel with small potholes scattered throughout the trail. The roadway is one vehicle wide with moderate brush overgrowth, so be ready for some pinstripes. There is a camping spot...
Learn more about Mallardy Cr - NFSR 4030

This is a great day trip or weekend getaway as there are multiple camp spots along this trail and even a small waterfall at the bridge crossing. The main trail is all gravel with some moderate elevation gain, but accessible by all vehicles; there are a few side trails that require high clearance veh...
Learn more about Walt Bailey

SMC is a 1.3-mile-long dirt bike trail through the Walker Valley ORV Area. It is an easy single track, with small features like roots, low embedded rocks, and somewhat steep sections, but is overall still very easy for the average rider. It's a mix of really wide sections traversing across hillsides...
Learn more about SMC

A short trail that takes you to an awesome camp spot near a small waterfall and creek. Old-growth type forest lines the trail and the last section to the camp spot is lined with ferns. Decent spot for a few vehicles and is very secluded. Beautiful all year and even better in the snow. The trail is a...
Learn more about The Ferns on French Creek

Kim & Monica's is a 1.6-mile-long ATV trail designated for 48" or less vehicles. It goes through a forest full of tall skinny red alder trees, sword ferns, red cedars, and Douglas firs. It's decently wide for most of the trail, but there are sections where the trail is pretty narrow between the bush...
Learn more about Kim and Monicas

Webfoot is a short and easy single track through the southwest end of the Walker Valley ORV Area. It's .7 miles long, and very easy the whole way. It's accessed from the staging area through all easy trails as well, making it part of a great ride for beginner riders. If riding south to north, there'...
Learn more about Webfoot

Doug's Loop is a short and easy ATV trail in the Walker Valley ORV Area. The north end starts out in a logging area with lots of fallen trees. Most of the trees that have fallen over the trail have been cut, except for a few that are elevated above the trail several feet high that you have to duck f...
Learn more about Doug's Loop

Judy's Grade is an easier ATV Trail in the Walker Valley ORV Area (designated for vehicles 48" or less). It's less than a mile long and is consistently wide. The west end starts off of DNR Rd 17, and you can either go west over a wooden bridge, or east towards the intersection with Langley's Legacy ...
Learn more about Judys Grade

Langley's Legacy is a short ATV Trail for vehicles 48" or less. It connects DNR Road 17 to Bear Creek Mainline Road in the Walker Valley ORV Area. It's very short, and mostly easy, but does have one easy embedded rock obstacle. It is more like a flat slickrock surface with a less than 1-foot tall le...
Learn more about Langleys Legacy

Cavanaugh is a 1.3-mile long ATV trail that has some fun features like harder rocky sections, and big mud puddles. It climbs up from the end of the Webfoot single track, up to a wooden bridge over a creek crossing. Throughout the trail there are several more wooden bridges, and many sections that ha...
Learn more about Cavanaugh

I-5 is a mile-long single track in the Walker Valley ORV Area, that is easy the whole way, with one additional rock slab obstacle that makes it slightly more difficult. The south end starts with lots of leafy ferns and bushes, in a thick jungle-like forest. It's very similar to many of the other tra...
Learn more about I-5

This is a curvy, eroded trail that is fairly easy to navigate. The trail is very muddy during the wetter times of the year and dusty during the dry months. There are a few rock obstacles, but the trail is full of rocky areas that can make it more difficult for smaller 4x4s and lower clearance vehicl...
Learn more about EZ Valley Connector

Coyote is about a 1 mile-long 48" ATV Trail in the Walker Valley ORV Area. The north end starts at the south end of the Tooler Single Track. It starts underneath tall and skinny pine trees on a wide path, with small roots and wooden bridges and lots of whoops. There are a couple larger roots and mud...
Learn more about Coyote

Round Mountain is a 4.3-mile out-and-back route that follows a single-lane gravel road through forested terrain. The road is generally easy to navigate, though some sections feature loose gravel and moderate brush encroachment that may contact wider vehicles. Several small dispersed campsites are lo...
Learn more about Round Mountain - FS 1890

Green Mountain Road starts as a well-groomed dirt/ gravel track with a spectacular forest surround. This is a popular location for people to come shooting, with many small pullouts along the first half of the trail. Please be responsible and pick up your casings afterward! It climbs in elevation rat...
Learn more about Green Mountain Road/NF-011

Forest Service Road 4200 to the Mount Pilchuck Trailhead is a scenic and enjoyable mountain drive in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The road is primarily well-maintained gravel with some paved sections near the upper trailhead, making it accessible for most high-clearance vehicles and S...
Learn more about Mount Pilchuck - FS 4200

Boardman Lake Trail starts out as a standard gravel FS road but is laden with relatively large potholes and the elevation climbs quickly. There are many turnouts for dispersed camping but none offer privacy. After about 2 miles, you will reach a "Y" in the road where you can go to the Boardman Lake ...
Learn more about Boardman Lake Trail

This is the 2nd more intense trail off Schweitzer Creek Road, the other is Boardman Lake Trail. This trail is a bit more technical than Boardman Lake and a bit longer in distance. Similarly, there are large loose rocks and deep ruts to navigate but offers much more stunning scenery including a bridg...
Learn more about Bear Lake Trail

Green Mountain Road starts as a well-groomed dirt/ gravel track with a spectacular forest surround. This is a popular location for people to come shooting, with many small pullouts along the first half of the trail. Please be responsible and pick up your casings afterward! It climbs in elevation rat...
Learn more about Green Mountain Road/NF-011

Forest Service Road 4200 to the Mount Pilchuck Trailhead is a scenic and enjoyable mountain drive in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The road is primarily well-maintained gravel with some paved sections near the upper trailhead, making it accessible for most high-clearance vehicles and S...
Learn more about Mount Pilchuck - FS 4200

Boardman Lake Trail starts out as a standard gravel FS road but is laden with relatively large potholes and the elevation climbs quickly. There are many turnouts for dispersed camping but none offer privacy. After about 2 miles, you will reach a "Y" in the road where you can go to the Boardman Lake ...
Learn more about Boardman Lake Trail

This is the 2nd more intense trail off Schweitzer Creek Road, the other is Boardman Lake Trail. This trail is a bit more technical than Boardman Lake and a bit longer in distance. Similarly, there are large loose rocks and deep ruts to navigate but offers much more stunning scenery including a bridg...
Learn more about Bear Lake Trail