Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Scott City, Missouri

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Clear Creek Levee Road

The Clear Creek Levee Road parallels IL Route 3 North and South connecting the dots with a lot of routes that lead to Shawnee National Forest and other trails. It's a simple gravel road with…
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Total Miles
7.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Tywappity Fire Tower Road

Just a simple proving grounds trail, like the one you learn to ride 4 wheeler or dirt bike on, the trail offers thrill if you seek it but has its ease about it. You can…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Slick Ridge SFR 262G

The Slick Ridge SFR 262G is a mildly challenging natural fire road that has a reward of a great view of Shawnee National Forest. It features an off-camber eroded section that will test your articulation…
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Total Miles
1.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

General Watkins Park Road

General Watkins Park Road is a mile-long gravel road leading into the General Watkins Missouri Conservation Area. This road takes you off US-61 straight into some gorgeous wilderness and hiking areas, with a great area…
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Total Miles
0.9
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Wolf Creek Road

Wolf Creek Road is a gravel road running through a section of the Shawnee National Forest. It clocks in at 3.8 miles, leading slowly downhill from the hills of the Mississippi Bluffs into the low-laying…
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Total Miles
3.6
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Old Goat SFR 625 & 625A

Old Goat SFR 625 and 625A is a State Forest Road in Shawnee National Forest. The road is short at only 1.1 miles long, but packs a punch, starting off dipping through a creek bottom,…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

McCraven SFR 220

McCraven SFR 220 is a very scenic nature-viewing gravel road in Shawnee National Forest. It is a very easy trail with a minimal challenge, but there are a few muddy crossings and water collection spots…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Delta Road/Moad Hollow Road

Delta Road and Moad Hollow Road are the precursors to the Opossum Trot Trail System within Shawnee National Forest. This gravel road features an easy cruise leading you through the Illinois countryside showing off its…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su / Wi

Opossum Trot Road SFR 628

Opossum Trot Road SFR 628 is a scenic well maintained gravel road through Shawnee National Forest. The trail features great views and ease of driving, but if you are looking for the thrill it has…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

East Delta Road

East Detla Road, is the eastern section of the road going through Shawnee National Forest connecting the Opossum Trot Trail System to Elco, IL. The road is a steady uphill climb when headed west, gaining…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Whitney Hollow Road

Whitney Hollow Road is an easy gravel road, that in conjunction with Wilderness Retreat Road, form access in between the Silica Hill section to the Opossum Trot section of Shawnee National Forest. The Whitney Hollow…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Grabber SFR 264

Grabber SFR 264 is a 1.7-mile-long forestry road through Shawnee National Forest. It traverses some of the steepest graveled hills in the SW corner of the forest, climbing a total of 406 feet from its…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Wilderness Retreat Road

Wilderness Retreat Road is a gravel back road, that in conjunction with Whitney Hollow Road, forms access between the Silica Hill section to the Opossum Trot section of Shawnee National Forest. The Wilderness Retreat features…
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Total Miles
2.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Silica Hill Road SFR 645

The West Silica Hill Road SFR 645 is a 1.3-mile-long forestry road through Shawnee National Forest. As you travel the road, grades come in waves from gradual incline to steep grades. These steep grades include…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

South Silica Hill Road

The South Silica Hill Road is a gravel road headed south off the Silica Hill trail system through Shawnee National Forest. It is a gravel road at base, featuring a mild grade hill from where…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Lingle Creek Road

Lingle Creek Road is a road through the Southern Central Illinois landscape. Clocking in at 3.6 miles the road parallels Lingle Creek as it etches into the country hillsides and farmland of the area. The…
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Total Miles
2.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su / Wi

Atwood Road SFR 266

Atwood Road SFR 266 is a Shawnee National Forest state forest road that travels to the old Atwood lookout tower site. The hill's grade is one of the steepest and tallest in the area right…
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Total Miles
1.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

N Hamburg Hill Spur

The N Hamburg Hill Spur 266AA, within Shawnee National Forest, is a trail that once was traversable by full-width vehicles, but in its current state should only be trekked by dirt bikes and 4-wheelers, within…
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Total Miles
0.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Hamburg SFR 266A

As a branch of Atwood Road 266, the Hamburg 266A is a bit more of an offroading road and less of a scenic road within Shawnee National Forest. It has an off-camber hill within .2…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Pine Hills Road SFR 236

Pine Hills Road SFR 236 within Shawnee National Forest is a very lovely gravel Shawnee National Forest Road with access to hiking trails, scenic overlooks, and a campground all in one. Its biggest obstacles are…
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Total Miles
7.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Cape Gir. Co 521 / 520

The Cape Girardeau County Roads 521 and 520 form a great scenic gravel road and loop with the main road of the area (US-61, with help from Cape Co 510). The roads were constructed around…
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Total Miles
3.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Hartle Ford Road

Hartle Ford Road consists of Cape County Road 352 and Bollinger County Road 368. It is a gravel road that features rolling hills leading into two separate creek bottoms with really impressive low-water bridges. The…
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Total Miles
4.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Old Plantation Access Road

Old Plantation Access Road, also named Cape Girardeau County Road 485, is a gravel road in Millersville, Missouri that also doubles as a Missouri Department of Conservation land access road. The road features beautiful rolling…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Tower Rock Road PCR 460

Tower Rock Road or Perry County Road 460 is a gravel road that parallels the Mississippi River, leading you to the historic Tower Rock Natural Area. The road has a few steep grades and is…
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Total Miles
1.5
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

James Creek Road

The James Creek Road, also known as Bollinger County Road 342 is a gravel county road rolling through the Missouri Countryside along James Creek. The road has a course gravel base with sweeping turns and…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su / Wi

Natural Bridge Road

This is a maintained gravel road with an occasional flat natural rock sticking up in the middle of the road. This trail features beautiful tall pines and areas you can see for miles. The road…
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Total Miles
2.1
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Kathy's Bridge Road

Kathy's Bridge Road, also known as Bollinger County Road 334, is a branch off the Bo-Co Road 342 and continues following the last stretch of James Creek while heading Southwest off the 342 to connect…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

SFR 743/743A

The SFR 743/743A branches off the Natural Bridge Road SFR 750 within Shawnee National Forest. The SFR 743/743A adds to the depth of the experience of going to the Natural Bridge, where the 750 gives…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Whitewater Presbyterian Church Road

Whitewater Presbyterian Church Road, or the Bo-Co Road 256, is a gravel county road that traverses passed the church and into the valley below. The bottom section of the road features mild rutting, natural rock…
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Total Miles
2.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su / Wi

Bo-Co Road 918

The Bollinger County 918 is a gravel county road connecting to other county roads in the area. It has mild rutting, washboarding, and mounding and shows signs of wear near its low-water bridge and hilly…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su / Wi