Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Sula, Montana

Riemel Trail / Hiking Trailhead is a scenic 3.9-mile point-to-point route near North Fork, Idaho, that offers high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles and SxSs a short but thrilling drive into a pristine valley with secluded dispersed camping. This trail provides offroaders with direct access to bea...
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Andrews Creek Trail starts from Highway 93 just a couple of miles south of Sula, MT. An easy way to find the beginning of this trail is to look for the Sula Forest Service Ranger District building on the east side of Highway 93. This trail is directly across Highway 93 on the west side. This trail i...
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The Bitterroot-Big Hole trail is an ideal route for scenic explorers and history buffs looking to bypass Lost Trail Pass via the historic Gibbons Pass in high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles or SxSs. Spanning approximately 17.3 miles, this trail climbs from an elevation of 4,605 feet to a peak o...
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This narrow two-track is only for ATV and Moto. It begins off highway 93 and heads past some houses into the hills. Be sure to take the middle two-track at the beginning, or you will end up in a driveway. After some bumps and ruts, you'll get to a locked gate with a narrow pass-through on the uphill...
Learn more about Lairds Epic View Draw

This trail is the continuation of Andrews Creek Trail. At this point, you will find a closed gate and a sign that shows dirt bikes and four-wheelers are allowed. As you begin, you will find a winding double-track trail that is fairly smooth with a mild amount of small rocks. This trail is mostly fla...
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Mink Creek to Highway 43 is a Forest Service road that takes you from East Fork Road and ends at Highway 43, just a couple of miles west of the Big Hole Battle Field. This road is well-maintained and very easy to drive or ride. The surface of the road consists mostly of packed dirt/gravel and has a...
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Warm Springs Laird Starts immediately off of Highway 93 near the Rocky Knob Restaurant. The first mile of this trail goes through a residential area before you reach national forest land. In this first mile, there are multiple speed limit signs of 15 mph put up by the residents, so please go slow he...
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This trail starts with loose gravel and then transitions to some rutted hard pack. Gilbert creek does run along the bottom, at least to the first big turn with a grassy open camping spot. Then the trail runs away from the stream and into the hills. There are beautiful views around every corner and a...
Learn more about Gilbert No Creek

This connector trail is fairly short but it is a neat way to jump onto Gibbons Pass Road from the bottom of Lost Trail Pass. This trail is one full-size vehicle wide in most spots but it does narrow down to more of a SxS width around a couple bends. This trail is mostly dirt so it is actually pretty...
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Crazy Creek Trail starts as a spur trail from the Crazy Creek Warm Springs Trail. This trail serves as an access to the Shook Mountain - Medicine Point dirt bike trail. This is a trail that you won't want to gain too much speed going down, as it has some rocky sections. Although rocky, no rocks are ...
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This trail leads from the private Medicine Hot Springs and the NFS Warm Springs Campground back to the Crazy Creek Campground and Warm Springs Trail, then head up the mountain toward the Bear Creek Saddle, which offers other trails to explore. The Warm Springs Guard station is a reservation-style ca...
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This run is a quick and easy connection between the Guild Saddle Trail, which has no offshoots with open gates, and a network of open 4X4 trails. This is a well-maintained easy dirt trail that shows signs of regular use. There are no dispersed campsites on the trail, but there are several other trai...
Learn more about Blue Mountain Connection

This trail is more of an access trail to other networks of trails than an exciting trail to a saddle. The trail starts as gravel and gradually transitions to dirt as it slowly gains some elevation. It is wider overall but narrow enough that a vehicle must pull off to allow another to pass. The views...
Learn more about Guide Saddle

Waugh Gulch is an ideal route for intermediate offroaders seeking a scenic mountain climb with stunning valley views. This narrow, unpaved route spans approximately 4.8 miles through the Bitterroot National Forest, rising from an elevation of 5,074 feet to a peak of 6,381 feet. With a technical rati...
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This is a narrow switchback trail up to the Porcupine Saddle. The trail surface is mostly well maintained, with a few potholes. The beginning of the trail is wider and runs through pine trees before turning into long switchbacks that are narrow and becomes a steep shelf trail. Views out over the val...
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This trail does not live up to its “Sagebrush” moniker. Rather, it travels through thick stands of scenic mixed conifers along the south-facing slope of Kerlee Ridge. This trail was built on the surface of an abandoned logging road, so the tread is level and relatively wide. Even so, deadfall is ab...
Learn more about Sagebrush ATV Trail

The Porcupine Saddle dirt bike-only trail is a short connector from the Porcupine Saddle UTV road to the Warm Springs Ridge single-track trail. It’s used mostly as a connector when making loops in the area but also allows easy access to the middle of Warm Springs Ridge Trail for those wanting to avo...
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Guide Rye Trail is a trail that runs from Rye Creek Road, just south of Darby, Montana, to East Fork Road, just east of Sula, MT. This is an easy trail that is about 15 miles long. When starting at the trail's north end, about 600 yards in, you'll notice that the trail no longer follows its original...
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Mine Road is a very easy road that takes you from Skalkaho Rye Road to the old Crystal Mountain mines. Don't expect to go to the mines as it is private property, and there are gates. The road is almost entirely a smooth gravel surface with very few rocks, potholes, and washboards. There are quite a ...
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This seven-mile section of the Gibbons Pass Road system is a smooth gravel road that is plenty wide for two vehicles to pass at nearly any point. The majority of this road is flat but there are a few spots of elevation change that are fairly mild slopes. This road is gravel with very few rocky spots...
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Riemel Trail / Hiking Trailhead is a scenic 3.9-mile point-to-point route near North Fork, Idaho, that offers high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles and SxSs a short but thrilling drive into a pristine valley with secluded dispersed camping. This trail provides offroaders with direct access to bea...
Learn more about Riemel Trail/ Hiking Trailhead

Andrews Creek Trail starts from Highway 93 just a couple of miles south of Sula, MT. An easy way to find the beginning of this trail is to look for the Sula Forest Service Ranger District building on the east side of Highway 93. This trail is directly across Highway 93 on the west side. This trail i...
Learn more about Andrews Creek

The Bitterroot-Big Hole trail is an ideal route for scenic explorers and history buffs looking to bypass Lost Trail Pass via the historic Gibbons Pass in high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles or SxSs. Spanning approximately 17.3 miles, this trail climbs from an elevation of 4,605 feet to a peak o...
Learn more about Bitterroot-Big Hole

This narrow two-track is only for ATV and Moto. It begins off highway 93 and heads past some houses into the hills. Be sure to take the middle two-track at the beginning, or you will end up in a driveway. After some bumps and ruts, you'll get to a locked gate with a narrow pass-through on the uphill...
Learn more about Lairds Epic View Draw

Riemel Trail / Hiking Trailhead is a scenic 3.9-mile point-to-point route near North Fork, Idaho, that offers high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles and SxSs a short but thrilling drive into a pristine valley with secluded dispersed camping. This trail provides offroaders with direct access to bea...
Learn more about Riemel Trail/ Hiking Trailhead

Andrews Creek Trail starts from Highway 93 just a couple of miles south of Sula, MT. An easy way to find the beginning of this trail is to look for the Sula Forest Service Ranger District building on the east side of Highway 93. This trail is directly across Highway 93 on the west side. This trail i...
Learn more about Andrews Creek

The Bitterroot-Big Hole trail is an ideal route for scenic explorers and history buffs looking to bypass Lost Trail Pass via the historic Gibbons Pass in high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles or SxSs. Spanning approximately 17.3 miles, this trail climbs from an elevation of 4,605 feet to a peak o...
Learn more about Bitterroot-Big Hole

Mink Creek to Highway 43 is a Forest Service road that takes you from East Fork Road and ends at Highway 43, just a couple of miles west of the Big Hole Battle Field. This road is well-maintained and very easy to drive or ride. The surface of the road consists mostly of packed dirt/gravel and has a...
Learn more about Mink Creek to Highway 43