Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Mantua, Ohio

This trail is short, but VERY scenic and perfect for almost any Subaru-style vehicle. It is an excellent add-on trail in this area and is worth a run-through. Very uncharacteristic for Ohio, this trail has some out west style features! Offering very wide open ranges of rolling hills. While I was run...
Learn more about Life Wide Open - Scenic Trail

If you are someone that loves exploring new terrain and experiencing the true country living of Ohio, this is for you. This trail takes you by beautiful wildlife, farm animals, rustic houses, wide-open scenery, and even a fire tower. Subarus would feel right at home on this mostly gravel forest serv...
Learn more about Ridgeview Road - Subarus Paradise

This trail is one of my favorites! This track will take you along some of the best sights and open landscapes Ohio has to offer. If you are camping at one of the local dispersed campsites, Overlanding with buddies, scouting for deer, or want to park somewhere and see for miles while eating your favo...
Learn more about The Ridge Run

This is a backroad connector route from Campground C to the Equine day-use area. It's a great little route through the woods and along a beautiful clear creek. You will pass by many wonderful ponds that can be fished and even a Civil War cemetery. There are several offshoots for the more adventurous...
Learn more about AEP SandHollow Camp C to Equine Day use F no gates

This short trail offers lots of great activities like hunting, HUGE clear lakes for fishing, and a dispersed camping area that is free to stay at throughout the Spring, Fall, and Summer seasons. This trail is mainly rough gravel with big potholes and very small washouts but is accessible by just abo...
Learn more about Horse Run Road

Expect to go through one of the most scenic roads in Perry County. This trail is all gravel but very slick steep hills with sharp turns. Once you enter the trail you go down into a nice little creek crossing that flows when the water is higher. After that, you will continue down until you hit a fork...
Learn more about Helmick Mill Covered Bridge

Pelcher Road along Spring Run is very scenic with multiple hills and beautiful vistas with a surprise building at the end. Class 1 roadway may be very slippery during rains and should use caution on blind corners and be aware of wildlife and livestock. You may encounter Amish buggies on this route a...
Learn more about Plecher Road to Pyramid House

This route starts at Junkyard Town (a town owned by an entire family and appears to be an open-air private junkyard). The path winds through the countryside, crossing multiple steel bridges over Meigs Creek, and eventually turns left, crossing a multitude of low-water concrete bridges that will be u...
Learn more about Junkyard Town - low water bridges along Onion Creek - Hackney

I started at the Big Musky Bucket in the Miners Memorial AEP Picnic area across the main road to a beautiful ridge line backroad with amazing expansive open views that remind me of traveling to the significant plains areas. The road is high-speed gravel and very wide and passes a civil war cemetery ...
Learn more about Miners Memorial (Big Muskie Bucket) across Dakota Plains - Junkyardtown

Very Steep entry/exit on both ends. The creeks are always flowing and constantly changing the appearance of the roadway. Three sizeable concrete slab bridges span the waterways that wind in and out of the valley as you descend before going right back up again. The western valley ridgeline is very na...
Learn more about AEP Onion Creek - Allen Run 3 Creek Slab Bridges

These are some great winding country back roads going through Amish Country seeing several Amish lumber mills and roadside markets to purchase Amish produce and craft. With beautiful changes in elevation, some of these roads can get narrow and technical. Many places to pull over and have other traff...
Learn more about Amish Lumber Mills

This is a high-speed, secondary gravel road running along the Kokosing River. Expect to encounter significant changes in elevation, and some blind turns on the cliff edge. This area is public hunting so foraging for ginseng and mushrooms are allowed with proper permits. Use caution in the fall, bein...
Learn more about Walhonding Hills Steel Bridge to 715 Batnest Loop

If you are looking for a quick adventure down a country road, this is one of many in the area. This route will take you out and through the woods, where you will see wildlife everywhere. There will be many sharp curves and steep hills even though it is an easy route, it does get slick in bad weather...
Learn more about Tunnel Hill

Lots of scenic wooded gravel roads. Quite a bit of up and down on the side loops as you come in and out of the valley. We were rewarded at the end of this trip with an amazing road and a beautiful cow farm. Recommend running this backward in the winter as the first western Hillclimb is very steep.
Learn more about Valley and Cows

Town Highway 323 splits off from another trail and continues up steep, sharp gravel curves. This easy back road travels deep into an overgrown forest, with history from the coal mining days buried all around. Once the road reaches the top, it becomes hilly and feels like a roller coaster.
Learn more about Town Highway 323

This is the eastern loop of Batnest Road back to Main Road 715. The nice twisty well-graded gravel road gets fairly steep in places. Hunting and fishing in the area with proper licensing, known for foraging of ginseng and mushrooms. Part of the Batnest and Stone Quarry Loop near Walhonding, Ohio, an...
Learn more about Batnest Loop

Town Highway 319 takes you down into what feels like the middle of nowhere without traveling too far from the main road. At the beginning of the road is what locals know as “the swing,” which has been there for years and lets riders swing off the bank over the road. This narrow gravel road continues...
Learn more about Town Highway 319

This trail is a tertiary gravel road that winds through the Amish Community with significant changes in elevation and sharp terms. Be aware of oncoming vehicle horse and foot traffic in the area as it is heavily Amish residential. Some of the sections at the end of this road get very steep with blin...
Learn more about Walhonding Hills Steel Bridge to Bridge of Dreams

This is a quiet rural back road that winds through the rolling hills and hardwood forest. It's full of coal mining history that once took place deep into the woods of Perry County. It is part of a trail system for ATVs and dirt bikes, so please be careful to watch for others also enjoying the beauti...
Learn more about Township Highway NR1

Town Highway 162 takes you down a narrow gravel road with some cool things to see. Once off the main road, the route continues along loose gravel to a small bridge with a sharp turn just beyond it. Take your time and look around while heading uphill, as old historic ruins are being taken over by ove...
Learn more about Town Highway 162

If you are someone that loves exploring new terrain and experiencing the true country living of Ohio, this is for you. This trail takes you by beautiful wildlife, farm animals, rustic houses, wide-open scenery, and even a fire tower. Subarus would feel right at home on this mostly gravel forest serv...
Learn more about Ridgeview Road - Subarus Paradise

This trail is one of my favorites! This track will take you along some of the best sights and open landscapes Ohio has to offer. If you are camping at one of the local dispersed campsites, Overlanding with buddies, scouting for deer, or want to park somewhere and see for miles while eating your favo...
Learn more about The Ridge Run

Expect to go through one of the most scenic roads in Perry County. This trail is all gravel but very slick steep hills with sharp turns. Once you enter the trail you go down into a nice little creek crossing that flows when the water is higher. After that, you will continue down until you hit a fork...
Learn more about Helmick Mill Covered Bridge

If you are looking for a quick adventure down a country road, this is one of many in the area. This route will take you out and through the woods, where you will see wildlife everywhere. There will be many sharp curves and steep hills even though it is an easy route, it does get slick in bad weather...
Learn more about Tunnel Hill

If you are someone that loves exploring new terrain and experiencing the true country living of Ohio, this is for you. This trail takes you by beautiful wildlife, farm animals, rustic houses, wide-open scenery, and even a fire tower. Subarus would feel right at home on this mostly gravel forest serv...
Learn more about Ridgeview Road - Subarus Paradise

This trail is one of my favorites! This track will take you along some of the best sights and open landscapes Ohio has to offer. If you are camping at one of the local dispersed campsites, Overlanding with buddies, scouting for deer, or want to park somewhere and see for miles while eating your favo...
Learn more about The Ridge Run

Expect to go through one of the most scenic roads in Perry County. This trail is all gravel but very slick steep hills with sharp turns. Once you enter the trail you go down into a nice little creek crossing that flows when the water is higher. After that, you will continue down until you hit a fork...
Learn more about Helmick Mill Covered Bridge

If you are looking for a quick adventure down a country road, this is one of many in the area. This route will take you out and through the woods, where you will see wildlife everywhere. There will be many sharp curves and steep hills even though it is an easy route, it does get slick in bad weather...
Learn more about Tunnel Hill