Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Robie Creek, Idaho

Rocky Canyon Road is a scenic mountain pass suitable for beginner offroaders and high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles, offering a direct, unpaved alternative to Highway 21 that connects East Boise to Robie Creek. Spanning approximately 8.5 miles, this route climbs from an elevation of roughly 3,...
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Boise Ridge Road is a scenic, moderate forest service route ideal for high-clearance 4x4s, side-by-sides, and dirt bikes looking for expansive ridgeline views overlooking Boise, Idaho. Stretching over 11 miles and reaching a peak elevation of 6,509 feet, this unpaved route connects the high-country ...
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Do you like long drives on a dirt road, river views, and hot springs? This road is for you! Enjoy a dirt road that follows along the Boise River. It is possible to do this in any vehicle as long as there is no snow or heavy rainstorms. During heavy rainstorms, this road could become dangerous with f...
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Thorn Creek Road is a wide, flat dirt road tracking alongside Thorn Creek up the canyon. Expect occasional washboards. You’ll find several large dispersed campsites suitable for 5th wheels along the route, plus a non-motorized/singletrack side trail for bikes, horses, and dirt bikes. The road links ...
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Cottonwood Creek Road (FS #277) offers a steady, scenic climb starting from Arrowrock Dam and ascending through a dense, continuous canopy of pine trees. The journey begins near the small, three-site Cottonwood Creek Campground. The spur trail to the campground is particularly narrow and prone to ca...
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This trail packs a lot into a short distance, blending various terrain challenges with deep Idaho history. As you parallel the original Oregon Trail, you’ll encounter 4-foot cement pillars around the one-mile mark that officially designate the historic route. The first mile features deep ruts that o...
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This short ATV trail is in the Danskin Trail System just southeast of Boise, Idaho. It's a wide and shelfy ATV trail that is two-track wide, with a steady decline and meanders by a creek. In the beginning, it looks like an old road, with a lot of overgrowth of shrubs lining the trail and grass on th...
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501 is an easy 50" trail for dirt bikes and ATVs but is slightly harder for ATVs due to steep climbs and lots of whoops. The trail is a wide ridge line path across a series of green rolling hills in the Boise National Forest. It's two-track width the whole way on a dirt surface, and the dirt is a li...
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This short ATV trail connects ATV trails 500 and 501. It's mostly easy but has two sections where the trail is rutted out right down the center of the trail. On a dirt bike, it's easy to get troughed out here, but it may be easier on an ATV because you can straddle the rut. It also has several secti...
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Danskin #512 is a ridge line single track in the Boise National Forest. It's on a wider ridge line atop a series of rolling green hills, and the trail itself is a decently wide single track, thus the exposure is not too bad. It goes along a fence line for much of it, with wide open views and not man...
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This 13.9-mile point-to-point trail connects the Bogus Basin area to the Harris Creek area. Stop at 3.5 miles from Bogus Basin and hike out to Coyote Rock, or stop at 7.4 miles from Bogus Basin and check out Sugarloaf Rock. There are several other hiking trails to explore along this route. There is ...
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Turning onto Grayback Gulch off Highway 21 southwest of Idaho City begins with a paved 0.25-mile stretch running right through a large campground. Past the camping area, the route accesses an extensive network of dirt bike and mountain bike trails. Due to past logging operations, the road remains he...
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ATV #521 is a wide ridge line two-track with wide open views of the surrounding Danskin Mountains. It starts at a 5 way intersection with trails #531, #530, and #532 at the bottom of a valley under some pine trees, and climbs up about 900 feet over 2 miles up to ATV #520. It has several steep hill c...
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This is one of several easy ATV trails in the Danskin Trail System of the Boise National Forest. On the north end, this one starts in a pine tree forest with a big creek crossing that is deep in parts, as it leaves ATV trail #300. It climbs up to a ridge line with several steep hill climbs. The trai...
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This 30.1-mile point-to-point road crosses over the Salmon River Mountains from Idaho City to Horseshoe Bend. This road gives access to hundreds of miles of off-roading, hiking, and mountain bike trails in the Boise National Forest. This road is well maintained and is passable by any 4WD and 2WD veh...
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Danskin #311 is a ridge line single track in the Danskin Trail System in the Boise National Forest. It hill climbs the entire way from ATV #300 to the #310 single track, gaining almost 900 feet in 1.6 miles. The trail will have a steep hill climb that crests over a hill, continues flat for a minute,...
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Entering Pine Creek Road off Highway 21 northeast of Idaho City, you’ll immediately see numerous dispersed camping areas. Expect heavy traffic from campers and UTVs/side-by-sides along this wide, flat route with periodic washboards. Views are limited throughout. Near the end where it connects to Gra...
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This is a short ridge line trail in the Danskin Trail System that spurs off of #532 on the north end and connects to ATV #531 on the south end. Unlike many of the other ridge line trails in the area, this one doesn't have much elevation change, thus this trail is mostly flat and doesn't have any of ...
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#409 is a short and steep hill climb trail in the Danskin Trail System southeast of Boise, Idaho. Many of the trails in this trail system flow along a ridge line atop the rolling green mountainsides of this mountain range, and most have very steep hill climbs and descents. This one is similar to man...
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This short single track in the Danskin Trail System is a ridge line trail that goes over a series of rolling hills in this mountain range with lots of steep hill climbs and descents. It departs from #310 with a steep hill climb up to the top of a hill, then it downhills the rest of the way to #300. ...
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Rocky Canyon Road is a scenic mountain pass suitable for beginner offroaders and high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles, offering a direct, unpaved alternative to Highway 21 that connects East Boise to Robie Creek. Spanning approximately 8.5 miles, this route climbs from an elevation of roughly 3,...
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Boise Ridge Road is a scenic, moderate forest service route ideal for high-clearance 4x4s, side-by-sides, and dirt bikes looking for expansive ridgeline views overlooking Boise, Idaho. Stretching over 11 miles and reaching a peak elevation of 6,509 feet, this unpaved route connects the high-country ...
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Do you like long drives on a dirt road, river views, and hot springs? This road is for you! Enjoy a dirt road that follows along the Boise River. It is possible to do this in any vehicle as long as there is no snow or heavy rainstorms. During heavy rainstorms, this road could become dangerous with f...
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Thorn Creek Road is a wide, flat dirt road tracking alongside Thorn Creek up the canyon. Expect occasional washboards. You’ll find several large dispersed campsites suitable for 5th wheels along the route, plus a non-motorized/singletrack side trail for bikes, horses, and dirt bikes. The road links ...
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Boise Ridge Road is a scenic, moderate forest service route ideal for high-clearance 4x4s, side-by-sides, and dirt bikes looking for expansive ridgeline views overlooking Boise, Idaho. Stretching over 11 miles and reaching a peak elevation of 6,509 feet, this unpaved route connects the high-country ...
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Do you like long drives on a dirt road, river views, and hot springs? This road is for you! Enjoy a dirt road that follows along the Boise River. It is possible to do this in any vehicle as long as there is no snow or heavy rainstorms. During heavy rainstorms, this road could become dangerous with f...
Learn more about North Fork River Road

Thorn Creek Road is a wide, flat dirt road tracking alongside Thorn Creek up the canyon. Expect occasional washboards. You’ll find several large dispersed campsites suitable for 5th wheels along the route, plus a non-motorized/singletrack side trail for bikes, horses, and dirt bikes. The road links ...
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Cottonwood Creek Road (FS #277) offers a steady, scenic climb starting from Arrowrock Dam and ascending through a dense, continuous canopy of pine trees. The journey begins near the small, three-site Cottonwood Creek Campground. The spur trail to the campground is particularly narrow and prone to ca...
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