Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Olathe, Colorado

The Edge Trail is an adobe ridgeline trail in the Peach Valley Recreation Area that goes through an adobe clay badlands landscape. Starting from the northern trailhead, it starts wide but narrows up on the first adobe ridge lines. While on the ridge, you can see straight down to the steep grey fins ...
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Highway One is an ATV trail that is the main thoroughfare between the Peach Valley staging area and the Elephant Skin staging area. From the north trailhead, it drops down from Peach Valley staging area and becomes a wide major dirt trail on adobe clay soil. It is as wide as a highway in parts and v...
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Candy Cane Loop is an adobe ridge line loop for 50" vehicles in Peach Valley, but has some spots that may be quite narrow for an ATV. Going clockwise, it starts as a winding and whooped out two tracks that meanders on the tops of the adobe clay hills. It has several off camber banked corners in the ...
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Elephant Skin Road is an easy Jeep trail between Montrose and Olathe. There are a few shallow gullies across the road, but can be done with any vehicle with a bit of clearance. There is a very strange occurrence in the middle of the trail. There is an area where gullies are joined by underground n...
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The Snake ATV trail is a fun ATV trail accessed from the Peach Valley Staging Area that winds at the bottom of the flat valley between the adobe hills. It mostly covers the flat ground and winds back and forth between two hills. There are two narrower sections, and it crosses the Highway One ATV tra...
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Peach Valley Loop is one of several ATV trails in the Peach Valley Recreation Area. It is an easy and wide two track making a loop on the adobe clay badlands that make up much of this trail system. It starts at the Peach Valley staging area and climbs up the adobe hills to the ridge lines on top. Th...
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Highway One (Part Two) is a continuation of Highway One (Part One) ATV trail that is the main thoroughfare between the Peach Valley staging area and the Elephant Skin staging area. From the north trailhead, it drops down from Peach Valley staging area and becomes a wide major dirt trail on adobe cla...
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This unmarked single track is part of the Peach Valley Recreation Area and is a fun ridge line trail along the adobe clay badlands that make up much of this trail system. This trail is relatively easy compared to some of the other ridge line trails in this trail system because the trail is pretty wi...
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Branching smoothly off the main Tower Road, West Transfer Road provides an exceptionally expansive, wide-open valley transit. This 5.1-mile route initially features very mild surface imperfections, predominantly small 2-to-4-inch ruts and light obstacles easily negotiated by most vehicles. The journ...
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The Coal Bank Loop is a scenic and more forested route than the surrounding trails, beginning off Tower Road. Winding tightly through dense, verdant tree cover, it offers a distinctly engaging driving experience characterized by its intimate, lush atmosphere. The trail quickly introduces moderate ob...
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Little Buck Road offers a delightfully short, exceptionally relaxed 2.5-mile journey through some of the area's most picturesque high-desert terrain. This highly accessible route gently meanders over firm dirt tracks and light rocky surfaces, remaining remarkably free of severe technical challenges....
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Serving as a direct continuation immediately following the challenging Tower Road, the scenic Ben Lowe Road (BLM 860) offers a captivating 5.0-mile journey deep into rugged canyon territory. Because this isolated trail mandates the completion of Tower Road first, travelers are rewarded with profound...
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Roy's Junction Road provides a captivating, multi-faceted journey starting from a generous staging area capable of accommodating roughly 4–12 vehicles, located at the very onset of Rim Road. This 4.3-mile transit traverses dynamic canyon and rolling hill terrain adorned with consistent, sprawling sc...
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This incredibly scenic, shorter loop trail offers a breathtaking detour off the main Tower Road through an intimate, rugged canyon environment. Measuring just 0.4 miles in total length, this 0.1-hour transit requires a slow, deliberate average speed of approximately 4.0 mph due to the presence of li...
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Dry Creek Road is a brief, highly scenic 0.8-mile transit that kicks off from a truly massive, flat staging area. Capable of accommodating hundreds of vehicles, this immense starting point is ideal for organizing large group meetups or basecamps before hitting the trail. Almost immediately after dep...
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Cushman Creek is a fun, fast, and flowy single track in the Dry Creek Recreation Area that is mostly smooth dirt through sagebrush and pine trees on rolling desert hills near Olathe, Colorado. It has lots of tight, twisty turns, switchbacks, mild loose hill climbs and descents, and mild side-hilling...
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Lunar Ridge is a narrow and steep single track through an adobe badlands landscape near Montrose, Colorado. The trail is a smooth clay surface and winds along the narrow ridge lines of the adobe hills in this recreation area. The trail goes through a very scenic grey and gold dirt landscape that fee...
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Crag Road provides an engaging, scenic 2.1-mile journey that starts and ends on Tower Road. Averaging a leisurely 6 mph over roughly 20 minutes, this trail fully immerses explorers in a spectacular, deep canyon corridor, showcasing majestic views of massive surrounding rock formations and the sweepi...
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Burch Loop kicks off precisely where Rusty Nail Road concludes, delivering a highly scenic, moderately fast-paced 3.5-mile adventure through the high desert. Traveling at an estimated average speed of 10.3 mph, the trail is well-known for offering exceptional, continuous panoramic views of the plung...
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Lunar Express is a fun, tight, and twisty adobe trail in the Flat Top - Peach Valley Recreation Area. There are almost 100 miles of trail in this recreation area and many of the adobe trails are very similar, with steep hill climbs to get on the ridge lines on top of the adobe hills, and steep desce...
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Highway One is an ATV trail that is the main thoroughfare between the Peach Valley staging area and the Elephant Skin staging area. From the north trailhead, it drops down from Peach Valley staging area and becomes a wide major dirt trail on adobe clay soil. It is as wide as a highway in parts and v...
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Elephant Skin Road is an easy Jeep trail between Montrose and Olathe. There are a few shallow gullies across the road, but can be done with any vehicle with a bit of clearance. There is a very strange occurrence in the middle of the trail. There is an area where gullies are joined by underground n...
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The Snake ATV trail is a fun ATV trail accessed from the Peach Valley Staging Area that winds at the bottom of the flat valley between the adobe hills. It mostly covers the flat ground and winds back and forth between two hills. There are two narrower sections, and it crosses the Highway One ATV tra...
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Peach Valley Loop is one of several ATV trails in the Peach Valley Recreation Area. It is an easy and wide two track making a loop on the adobe clay badlands that make up much of this trail system. It starts at the Peach Valley staging area and climbs up the adobe hills to the ridge lines on top. Th...
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Elephant Skin Road is an easy Jeep trail between Montrose and Olathe. There are a few shallow gullies across the road, but can be done with any vehicle with a bit of clearance. There is a very strange occurrence in the middle of the trail. There is an area where gullies are joined by underground n...
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Branching smoothly off the main Tower Road, West Transfer Road provides an exceptionally expansive, wide-open valley transit. This 5.1-mile route initially features very mild surface imperfections, predominantly small 2-to-4-inch ruts and light obstacles easily negotiated by most vehicles. The journ...
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The Coal Bank Loop is a scenic and more forested route than the surrounding trails, beginning off Tower Road. Winding tightly through dense, verdant tree cover, it offers a distinctly engaging driving experience characterized by its intimate, lush atmosphere. The trail quickly introduces moderate ob...
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Little Buck Road offers a delightfully short, exceptionally relaxed 2.5-mile journey through some of the area's most picturesque high-desert terrain. This highly accessible route gently meanders over firm dirt tracks and light rocky surfaces, remaining remarkably free of severe technical challenges....
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