Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Sedan, Montana

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Carrol Creek

Carrol Creek is an easy 5 miles of ATV trail, designated for vehicles 50" or less. The south ends starts as a Jeep road, near the intersection with the Fairy Creek trail. After 1,000 feet…
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Total Miles
4.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Fairy Creek - FS 500

Fairy Creek is an ATV Trail for vehicles 50" or less. It's also a snowmobile path after December 2. It leaves from the Battle Ridge dirt parking lot on the west side of Highway 86…
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Total Miles
8.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Olsen Creek

This is a nice drive through the Bridger range that most vehicles can do. The trail forks to Skunk Creek, which has some deep puddles, but nothing a stock truck or SUV wouldn't be able…
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Total Miles
21.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Benchmark

Benchmark is a 1.5-mile long 50" trail through the Gallatin National Forest north of Bozeman, Montana. It's easy for the entire route, going through grassy valleys on an overgrown dirt trail. This one looks less…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

South Fork Flathead Creek

This is a 4.5-mile-long ATV trail designated for vehicles 50" or less. It's overall very easy, but does have some sections that have a bit of a rocky surface. The rocks are just small loose…
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Total Miles
4.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Upper Brackett Creek

Upper Brackett Creek Single Track is an easy and really scenic single track through the Gallatin National Forest north of Bozeman, Montana in the Bridger Mountain Range. It's a narrow skinny single track through wide…
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Total Miles
3.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Bangtail Divide Trail #504

Bangtail Divide is an almost 13 mile long single track through the Gallatin National Forest. It starts at the Bracket Creek Trailhead off Highway 86, north of Bozeman, Montana. It leaves the large dirt parking…
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Total Miles
11.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Ross Pass

Ross Pass is a 2.5-mile-long single track through the Gallatin National Forest. From the west end, it drops down from the summit of Ross Pass and the intersection with the Bridger Foothills, Bridger Ridge, and…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Flathead Pass

Flathead Pass is a short and sweet, easy trail filled with great views, a few off-camber sections, and some small to medium washouts. The trail starts after turning off Rocky Mountain Road and onto Flathead…
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Total Miles
3.8
Tech Rating
Best Time
Su / Fa

Start of Olsen Creek

The start of Olsen Creek Road is your basic gravel road, with somewhat deep potholes and parts of it washed out. There are no real obstacles or technical portions. There are tight switchbacks, so be…
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Total Miles
2.1
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Truman Gulch

Truman Gulch is an easy spur trail off of the Bridger Foothills trail that descends 1,400 feet down to the Truman Gulch Trailhead. It looks like there has been a lot of trail maintenance on…
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Total Miles
2.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Canyon Creek Trail

This 3.4-mile-long ATV trail goes through the Gallatin National Forest and makes a loop off of Miles Creek Road. This trail is more faint and overgrown and less trafficked compared to the other ATV trails…
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Total Miles
3.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Bishop Park ATV

Bishop Park ATV trail is almost 7 miles long running north to south through the Gallatin National Forest. The north end starts on Miles Creek Road, and it ends at the intersection with the Jackson…
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Total Miles
6.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Bangtail Creek Loop ATV

The Bangtail Creek Loop Trail is a straightforward ATV trail open June 16th to Oct 14th to vehicles 50" or less. It starts on a mountain top as a grassy, overgrown two-track. The trail's most…
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Total Miles
7.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Bangtail Divide

This is a 2.7-mile segment of the Bangtail Divide single track that parallels the Bishop Park ATV Trail. The south end starts at the intersection with the Bishop Park Connector Trail and a nonmotorized trail…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Middle Cottonwood

The Middle Cottonwood Single Track starts on the west end at a small dirt parking lot on a well-maintained wide dirt path. There are many hikers on this trail, so please respect other users. It…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Bishop Park Connector

This is a half mile long single track that connects the Bishop Park ATV trail to the Bangtail Divide single track. It's easy, fast, flowy, and smooth, with no rocks. It goes through grassy meadows,…
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Total Miles
0.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Willow Creek North ATV

The Willow Creek North ATV Trail connects Jackson Creek Road #977 to the North Fork Willow Creek Road #6901. Most of the 3 miles go along a wide shelfy path cutting across the grassy mountainside…
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Total Miles
2.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Willow Creek North Spur ATV

This is an easy ATV route through the Gallatin National Forest. This trail connects North Fork Willow Creek Road #6901 and Willow Creek Road #6600. From the north end, the first 2 miles climb up…
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Total Miles
2.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Jackson Divide ATV

Jackson Divide Trail is a 1-mile connector ATV trail between the Willow Creek North ATV Trail and the Bishop Park ATV Trail. It's very easy, the majority of it being a smooth dirt two-track that…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Jackson Creek ATV

Jackson Creek is an 11-mile ATV loop in the Gallatin National Forest that is open to vehicles 50" or less from 6/16 - 10/14. There is a staging area on the west side of the…
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Total Miles
10.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su

Willow Creek South ATV

Willow Creek South is a less trafficked and easy ATV trail through the Gallatin National Forest. The east entrance to this trail is on Willow Creek Divide Road #6957 when the road fades and it…
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Total Miles
2.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Goose Creek Trailhead

This route is a standard gravel road that is similar to many roads that take you to remote trailheads in Montana and across the mountain west. There are plenty of potholes and washboard sections of…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Moser Views

This trail is a great trail for beginners, involving two steep, off-camber hills at the beginning and middle, and plenty of chunky gravel and loose soil between. At the trail's peak is a phenomenal view…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Langohr Offshoot

A rough, but maintained forest service trail off of the main Langohr Road in Hyalite Canyon. There are various dispersed camping spots off of this trail, as well as several beautiful viewpoints to see the…
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Total Miles
3.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Pine Creek

This is a really pretty drive to some nice views and campsites. Nothing technical to worry about, a car could make it through with some determination. There is a small water crossing and some ruts,…
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Total Miles
4.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Cliff Creek Trail

This is a moderately quick and simple dirt road turn-off from the main Little Bear Road. There are no technical parts or anywhere that really even calls for high ground clearance. There is no shortage…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp

Wilson Creek Divide Road

This is a very nice and easy forest service road with several decent-sized boulders sticking up in the road. Once you reach the peak and start down the other side, it narrows to a tight,…
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Total Miles
26.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Little Bear Road Offshoot

Essentially a rough gravel road, this is a curvy and pot-hole-filled mountain road that forks off of Wilson Creek Divide Road. You'll likely want to air down your tires so as to not rattle your…
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Total Miles
3.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Lombard Coke Ovens

Traveling this rough clay-based gravel road between Toston and Lombard, you can expect to see range cattle, prickly pear cacti, plenty of sagebrush, and rattlesnakes. Use extreme caution on this road in the rain. Numerous…
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Total Miles
3.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

ATV Trails Near Sedan, Montana

Carrol Creek

Carrol Creek is an easy 5 miles of ATV trail, designated for vehicles 50" or less. The south ends starts as a Jeep road, near the intersection with the Fairy Creek trail. After 1,000 feet…
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Total Miles
4.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Fairy Creek - FS 500

Fairy Creek is an ATV Trail for vehicles 50" or less. It's also a snowmobile path after December 2. It leaves from the Battle Ridge dirt parking lot on the west side of Highway 86…
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Total Miles
8.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Olsen Creek

This is a nice drive through the Bridger range that most vehicles can do. The trail forks to Skunk Creek, which has some deep puddles, but nothing a stock truck or SUV wouldn't be able…
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Total Miles
21.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Benchmark

Benchmark is a 1.5-mile long 50" trail through the Gallatin National Forest north of Bozeman, Montana. It's easy for the entire route, going through grassy valleys on an overgrown dirt trail. This one looks less…
Learn more about Benchmark
Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

South Fork Flathead Creek

This is a 4.5-mile-long ATV trail designated for vehicles 50" or less. It's overall very easy, but does have some sections that have a bit of a rocky surface. The rocks are just small loose…
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Total Miles
4.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Flathead Pass

Flathead Pass is a short and sweet, easy trail filled with great views, a few off-camber sections, and some small to medium washouts. The trail starts after turning off Rocky Mountain Road and onto Flathead…
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Total Miles
3.8
Tech Rating
Best Time
Su / Fa

UTV/Side-by-Side Near Sedan, Montana

Flathead Pass

Flathead Pass is a short and sweet, easy trail filled with great views, a few off-camber sections, and some small to medium washouts. The trail starts after turning off Rocky Mountain Road and onto Flathead…
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Total Miles
3.8
Tech Rating
Best Time
Su / Fa

Start of Olsen Creek

The start of Olsen Creek Road is your basic gravel road, with somewhat deep potholes and parts of it washed out. There are no real obstacles or technical portions. There are tight switchbacks, so be…
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Total Miles
2.1
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Goose Creek Trailhead

This route is a standard gravel road that is similar to many roads that take you to remote trailheads in Montana and across the mountain west. There are plenty of potholes and washboard sections of…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Langohr Offshoot

A rough, but maintained forest service trail off of the main Langohr Road in Hyalite Canyon. There are various dispersed camping spots off of this trail, as well as several beautiful viewpoints to see the…
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Total Miles
3.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Wilson Creek Divide Road

This is a very nice and easy forest service road with several decent-sized boulders sticking up in the road. Once you reach the peak and start down the other side, it narrows to a tight,…
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Total Miles
26.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Little Bear Road Offshoot

Essentially a rough gravel road, this is a curvy and pot-hole-filled mountain road that forks off of Wilson Creek Divide Road. You'll likely want to air down your tires so as to not rattle your…
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Total Miles
3.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp