Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Riverside, Washington

This trail is mostly gravel state and county roads leading through the Sinlahekin Wildlife Refuge. It goes up the steep Chopaka Grade overlooking Palmer Lake and Palmer Mountain (historic gold mining country) and to Chopaka Lake, a favorite camping, swimming, boating, and fishing spot near Loomis, W...
Learn more about Chopaka Lake

This is part of the WABDR (Section 5) and is therefore often trafficked by ADV riders and other adventurists. Please use caution. This section of trail is a nice wide dirt road - wide enough for vehicles to pass one another. It is maintained for access to the several campgrounds, lakes, and communit...
Learn more about Sinlahekin Road

This road starts as a 1.5-lane gravel track and narrows to a single lane as it climbs. There is room to safely meet another vehicle in most places. The road also becomes a more natural surface instead of gravel as it climbs. There are a few switchbacks with a reasonable radius, and the area above th...
Learn more about FS 3800-025

This road starts out from the main FS 37 road as a 1.5 lane smooth natural surface road. It stays like that until the national forest boundary, where it starts to climb and has significant erosion ruts and damage. The road here is still wide enough that most of the ruts can be easily avoided. The ro...
Learn more about 3700-100 Conger Creek Rd

The northern part of this road is 1.5 lanes and in good condition. The rest of it is a single-lane dirt road with sections of shallow ruts, mild erosion damage, and some embedded and loose rocks. All of those were less than six inches high or deep. There are plenty of places to safely meet another v...
Learn more about Rock Lakes Road

This single-lane gravel road climbs up from Bryson Road to eventually become Gibson Creek Road about 2.6 miles in. Most of it is in decent shape, but there are some erosion ruts and damage, including exposed embedded and loose rocks around 6 inches deep or higher. It mostly goes through mixed forest...
Learn more about E362507a

This road starts off from the FS 3810 road as a 1.5 lane smooth gravel road. Initially the closest things to obstacles are potholes. Even those aren't that bad. As the road travels along it narrows to a single lane and has a few spots with erosion ruts and damage, with exposed embedded rocks less th...
Learn more about Bryson Road

This road picks up where E362507a left off, with no real marker for the name change. It climbs up to meet Big Toad Road at an intersection. The track that continues ahead becomes closed at some unmarked point, as it is tank-trapped and blocked off at Bryson Road. Gibson Creek Road is gravel with som...
Learn more about Gibson Creek Road

This is a rocky single-lane natural-surface road that climbs through a mixed forest. It begins from FS 3810 and connects through to Bryson Road. Most of the road is in good condition, but several of the climbs have erosion damage, embedded rock, and loose rocks around 6 inches deep or higher. The ro...
Learn more about FS 3810-100

This is a natural surface road with quite a few partially exposed embedded rocks. Most of the rocks are around six inches high, but a few get closer to a foot. There are places to safely meet another vehicle, but many spots are too narrow for that. The road begins at Gibson Creek Rd and climbs up to...
Learn more about Big Toad Rd

This route is a part of the WABDR (Section 5) and is therefore often trafficked by ADV riders. Please use caution. The trail from Highway 20 begins as a gentle and easy dirt road - wide enough for two vehicles to pass one another. Once you reach the Rock Creek Campground, the trail progressively bec...
Learn more about FR 2045 - Loup Loup Canyon Road

This is a single-lane dirt road picking up where the West Fork Rock Creek Road ends at an intersection with an unnamed road. It has some embedded and loose rock a little over six inches high, and one or two water bars that are a bit steep. The road is overgrown in places. It travels through both for...
Learn more about De Pue Creek Road

This dirt road starts out from Highway 20 as a two-lane road, narrowing to 1.5 and finally a single lane as it climbs north. There is ample room to meet another vehicle in most places. Most of the road has open views. There are some ruts and sections of erosion damage, along with some embedded and l...
Learn more about West Fork Rock Creek Road

This road starts as 1.5 lanes of gravel, but the gravel doesn't last for long. It stays about the same width, but the surface reverts to dirt. It meanders along the ridge, giving a glimpse of Highway 20 below, before ending abruptly at a locked gate where the road crosses onto private property. It i...
Learn more about North Cook Mountain Road North half

This gravel road starts from the Sanlahekin Mainline as 1.5 lanes wide. The initial climb is pretty steep and has quite a bit of washboard. That climb grade holds fairly steady for the first 1.3 miles. The road travels through open areas with expansive views as well as areas of dense forest. It is m...
Learn more about Douglas Mountain Road

This is a rocky single lane natural surface road that climbs through a mixed forest. It begins at the lower end of the 3800-360 road, and connects back to it higher up to make a loop possible. Much of the road has erosion damage, embedded rock and loose rocks up to a foot deep or high. The grade of ...
Learn more about FS 3800-365

This dirt road connects FS 3700-500 into Conconully. It has a few rocky and rough spots, but is generally in good shape. It gets wider and better as it gets closer to town. It is wide enough for 2 vehicles to meet for most of its length. There is a nice view of the lake as the road drops down toward...
Learn more about Mineral Hill Road - FS 3700-520

From Highway 20, this is the route to take to reach Buck Mountain/Fire lookout tower. The trail begins as a nice wide two-track that weaves and winds its way up through the Loup Loup National Forest. There is some erosion damage on the trail - ruts and ridges. The further up you travel, the more nar...
Learn more about Lower Buck Mountain

This is a combination of Forest Road 4225 (South Beaver) and 4200 (South Fork Salmon). This route takes you into the Okanogan National Forest, leading to several other off-shoot trails and trailheads. At the beginning of the trail is Beaver Campground. The road is pretty well maintained during the w...
Learn more about FR 4225 - 42

This gravel road starts out with a somewhat loose rocky climb from Bald Butte Rd. It maintains the climbing grade for much of its length, with some areas of erosion damage and both exposed embedded rocks as well as loose rocks less than six inches high. Coxit road ends at an intersection where a cou...
Learn more about Coxit Rd E372424c

This trail is mostly gravel state and county roads leading through the Sinlahekin Wildlife Refuge. It goes up the steep Chopaka Grade overlooking Palmer Lake and Palmer Mountain (historic gold mining country) and to Chopaka Lake, a favorite camping, swimming, boating, and fishing spot near Loomis, W...
Learn more about Chopaka Lake

This is part of the WABDR (Section 5) and is therefore often trafficked by ADV riders and other adventurists. Please use caution. This section of trail is a nice wide dirt road - wide enough for vehicles to pass one another. It is maintained for access to the several campgrounds, lakes, and communit...
Learn more about Sinlahekin Road

This road starts as a 1.5-lane gravel track and narrows to a single lane as it climbs. There is room to safely meet another vehicle in most places. The road also becomes a more natural surface instead of gravel as it climbs. There are a few switchbacks with a reasonable radius, and the area above th...
Learn more about FS 3800-025

This road starts out from the main FS 37 road as a 1.5 lane smooth natural surface road. It stays like that until the national forest boundary, where it starts to climb and has significant erosion ruts and damage. The road here is still wide enough that most of the ruts can be easily avoided. The ro...
Learn more about 3700-100 Conger Creek Rd

This trail is mostly gravel state and county roads leading through the Sinlahekin Wildlife Refuge. It goes up the steep Chopaka Grade overlooking Palmer Lake and Palmer Mountain (historic gold mining country) and to Chopaka Lake, a favorite camping, swimming, boating, and fishing spot near Loomis, W...
Learn more about Chopaka Lake

This is part of the WABDR (Section 5) and is therefore often trafficked by ADV riders and other adventurists. Please use caution. This section of trail is a nice wide dirt road - wide enough for vehicles to pass one another. It is maintained for access to the several campgrounds, lakes, and communit...
Learn more about Sinlahekin Road

This road starts as a 1.5-lane gravel track and narrows to a single lane as it climbs. There is room to safely meet another vehicle in most places. The road also becomes a more natural surface instead of gravel as it climbs. There are a few switchbacks with a reasonable radius, and the area above th...
Learn more about FS 3800-025

This road starts out from the main FS 37 road as a 1.5 lane smooth natural surface road. It stays like that until the national forest boundary, where it starts to climb and has significant erosion ruts and damage. The road here is still wide enough that most of the ruts can be easily avoided. The ro...
Learn more about 3700-100 Conger Creek Rd