Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near North Light Plant, New Mexico

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...
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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 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...
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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

Upper Mesa trail is one of a network of trails in the area called Glade North. It is an easy drive with beautiful views of northwest New Mexico's high desert. Many of the canyon walls are multi-colored, with shades of purple, blue, red-orange, and grey. There are also numerous rock formations, incl...
Learn more about Glade North - Upper Mesa Trail

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...
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The north end of this easy trail starts at the end of the road between the baseball diamond and dog park near Aztec, New Mexico. It goes up a steep hill right away and gets up on a ridgeline, overlooking the park and fishing pond. It goes over the rolling hills made of soft clay and dirt, on a mid-w...
Learn more about Anna's Ridge

This short and narrow trail near Aztec, New Mexico, starts on the route for a disc golf course in badlands-type desert terrain. It's a narrow ridgeline that is most ideal for ATVs and dirt bikes but would be rather too narrow for a 60" SXS. It drops down from the ridgeline into the flat part of the ...
Learn more about Rhinos Ridge

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 route is a mix of oil well roads, and mid-width trail ideal for 60" SxSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes. It goes through an open desert near Aztec, New Mexico. It's made up of primitive oil well/natural gas access roads that are less maintained, with shallow ruts and washouts and sandy wash crossings. Y...
Learn more about Three Eyed Monkey

This trail starts after Anna's Ridge and continues on the narrow ridgeline on the clay hills. It has sweeping turns and little descents and climbs as it goes from each hilltop to the next. It's super fast and flowy, with whoops, but no major obstacles, just a bit of exposure on each side of the ridg...
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The North Loop Connector serves as an alternate route linking the Upper Mesa Trail and the North Loop Trail, providing a convenient shortcut between the two. Though relatively short at just 3.3 miles, this trail is a must-ride. It offers incredible views, striking rock formations, and a mix of terra...
Learn more about Glade North - North Loop Connector

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

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...
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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 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 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 loop starts from an oil well access road and enters the desert terrain on a mid-width trail ideal for 60" SXSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes. Going counterclockwise from the south, it goes out onto a ridgeline on the soft clay dirt hills in this badlands-type terrain. The ridgeline has a lot of whoops....
Learn more about CMT East Loop

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

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 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

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

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

Upper Mesa trail is one of a network of trails in the area called Glade North. It is an easy drive with beautiful views of northwest New Mexico's high desert. Many of the canyon walls are multi-colored, with shades of purple, blue, red-orange, and grey. There are also numerous rock formations, incl...
Learn more about Glade North - Upper Mesa Trail

The north end of this easy trail starts at the end of the road between the baseball diamond and dog park near Aztec, New Mexico. It goes up a steep hill right away and gets up on a ridgeline, overlooking the park and fishing pond. It goes over the rolling hills made of soft clay and dirt, on a mid-w...
Learn more about Anna's Ridge

This route is a mix of oil well roads, and mid-width trail ideal for 60" SxSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes. It goes through an open desert near Aztec, New Mexico. It's made up of primitive oil well/natural gas access roads that are less maintained, with shallow ruts and washouts and sandy wash crossings. Y...
Learn more about Three Eyed Monkey