Beginner Off-Road Trails Near St. George, Utah

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Navajo Drive

This route starts as pavement but quickly turns to a dirt road. There is a staging area/parking lot at the beginning. On the Northside is a popular biking trail. Surrounding this road is an endless…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp

Cottonwood Road

What begins as a paved road soon turns into an easy, maintained dirt road, wide enough for vehicles to pass. There are several (hike, bike, horse) trailheads along this route. Beautiful desert scenery in every…
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Total Miles
7.5
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Curly Hollow Wash

This narrow trail makes its way along the ridgeline and follows alongside the Virgin River. Predominantly easy dirt trail with a few loose rocky sections to navigate. The Eastside of this trail begins at a…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp

Virgin River Gorge Overlook 1

This beautiful, easy, out-and-back trail weaves its way through the Red Cliffs desert reserve. Scattered primitive camping and shooting areas at the beginning of the trail. Once you begin reaching the end (overlook), the trail…
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Total Miles
4.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp

Hollow Washington Road

This is an easy dirt trail that takes you past Bloomington Caves (permit required) and ends up at Joshua Tree Road. Nothing challenging about this route. You will cross a wash or two and over…
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Total Miles
8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp / Su

Mount Trumbull School House Road (CoHwy5)

This is the main road to many adventures south of St. George. The historic one-room schoolhouse at the end of the approximately 50-mile drive is a definite plus. This section of road trailheads many adventures…
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Total Miles
47.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Black Mountain Petroglyph via St. George

This trail provides access to a wonderful assortment of petroglyphs at a site close to the St. George metropolitan area. The site is accessible by almost any type of vehicle. Getting to the site is…
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Total Miles
4.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Val Wash

This small offshoot trail leads to some really great views overlooking the Virgin River and the surrounding desert landscape. You will encounter a couple of very short steep hills. There is a turnaround spot where…
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Total Miles
1.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Sp / Su

Black Mountain Petroglyph Site

This is a fun drive to the Black Mountain petroglyphs on land administered by Bureau of Land Management. The road is easy and well traveled and shoots off from Warner Valley Road. This route is…
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Total Miles
6.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Warner Valley Dinosaur Tracks

This is a short and easy trail to the Warner Valley Dinosaur Tracks on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The trail is easy to get to from the Hurricane and St. George…
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Total Miles
8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Gates Lane

Just Southwest of Santa Clara is a wide-open BLM playground for off-roading, mountain biking, shooting, hiking, and more. There is an endless spiderweb of trails and paths to take. At the end of this route…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Warner Valley Wash

This desert wash is a 5-mile trail south of Sand Hollow/Hurricane, UT, in the shadow of the West Rim of Sand Hollow. You get a good view of Punchbowl Dome, and the trail connects to…
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Total Miles
4.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Sand Mountain via Warner Valley

Upgrades to Route 7, that cuts between the state park and Sand Mountain, as well as recently installed gates and fences have changed the accesses to Sand Mountain. In Utah, OHVs are limited to roads…
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Total Miles
4.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Bear Claw to Overlook

This short trail connects the Virgin River Gorge Overlook trails to the Bearclaw Claw Poppy trail. This is an easy trail - nothing of difficulty to note. You will come to a gate that should…
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Total Miles
2.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Virgin River Gorge Overlook 2

This short, out-and-back trail takes you to a second Virgin River Gorge overlook. This trail is not quite as easy as the Virgin River Gorge Overlook 1 trail. This one is a little less defined…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Sunshine Trail

The Sunshine Trail is a fun trail with fantastic views and places to stop and explore. The "Glitter Mine" is a site used to excavate special stones that were ground and put in the paint…
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Total Miles
23.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Fort Pierce via Fort Pierce Wash

This is a fun roller coaster ride through some beautiful country. The trail follows the Fort Pierce Wash which starts in Arizona and terminates when it flows into the Virgin River near the St. George…
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Total Miles
4.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Seegmiller to Black Mountains

This 7-mile trail in the Northern Arizona Desert goes between Seegmiller Mountain and Black Mountain. It connects the Mount Trumbull School House Road on the south to the Sunshine Trail on the north. Black Mountain…
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Total Miles
6.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Sand Hollow Top of the World-West Rim for Wimps

This is a fun ride to familiarize yourself with Sand Mountain. The route takes you south to the Top of the Rock with some fantastic views. From there, you will traverse the west side of…
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Total Miles
6.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Bear Claw Poppy to Santa Clara Loop

This loop will take you out of a suburb of St. George named Bloomington. The trail head for BearClaw Poppy is a popular bike and hiking trail. These roads will take you along the North…
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Total Miles
16.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Bear Claw Poppy Trail

This is predominantly a very easy dirt trail as it winds its way through the desert wilderness. The short switchback section about a mile from the Eastern end has some steep grades, brief rocky patch…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Turkey Road to Lone Pine

When in St. George Utah this is a nice scenic loop that completes the Diamond Valley, Lone Pine-Cottonwood Loop train marked on the map. This ride is on maintained County, BLM and ranch dirt roads.…
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Total Miles
21.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Diamond Valley-Lone Pine-Cottonwood Loop

This is a fun, easy trail with fantastic views of the surrounding area. On the Diamond Valley side you will have views of cinder cones, a dormant volcano with crater, hundreds of square miles to…
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Total Miles
14.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Cedar Bench Trail

This dirt trail starts off as a well-defined route but slowly turns into a meager two-track that ultimately fades away at a dead-end. Water erosion has rutted some spots. There are several sections with large,…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Lower Sand Dune Way to Top of the World

This two-mile track takes you from where Lower Sand Dune Way and Landslide connect to the Top of the World in Sand Hollow State Park. You go by the Flinstone House, by Competition Hill, and…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Segmiller Mountain - Sunshine Trail Interconnect

For those looking for a fun adventure that gets you to Segmiller Mountain without taking County Road 5, this is it. You can visit the Glitter Mine on the Sunshine Trail and then take this…
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Total Miles
12
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Cottonwood Creek

This easy scenic dirt road takes you around the Pine Valley Mountains and through the Cottonwood Forest Wilderness. There are a couple of hiking trailheads along this route as well as Yankee Doodle Canyon. Scattered…
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Total Miles
10.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Flinstone House Spur

This short trail connects Lower Sand Dune Way to the Razzle Dazzle and East Rim Trails. It goes right by the formation in Sand Hollow called the Flinstone House. Another name for this trail is…
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Total Miles
0.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Mokaac Mountain

This is a fun adventure with a wonderful surprise as you near the northeasternmost point on the ride. The ride trailheads from a small lot near the peak of County Road 5 that extends River…
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Total Miles
16.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Razzle Dazzle East Cut-Across

This 1.3-mile trail connects two portions of Razzle Dazzle on the East Rim. It's another way to get to the Flinstone House Spur or the other trails near the South Rim. The rock formations in…
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Total Miles
1.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi