Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Tsaile, Arizona

This is an easy desert ATV trail through the Glade Run Recreation Area. It's a mix of hardpacked dirt and slickrock with 1-foot ramped rock ledges and uneven layers of slickrock. It goes between cool rock formations and big juniper trees, making quick curves through the trees. It's a fun and fast tr...
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The northern half of this loop goes through a wide white sand wash, with big sweeping curves through the open desert. It's lined with bushes and pinyon trees and is smooth with no obstacles. Shortly after a powerline, the wash splits, and this trail goes southeast into another almost similar wash th...
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Off of Da-Na-Zin Road, this short spur trail takes you to an overlook right on the edge of the Bisti badlands. There is a closed gate at the entrance that should be closed behind you. This short two-track trail has a few washouts but can be done in any typical 4WD SUV or truck. The trail is tight, s...
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This trail is designated for dirt bikes but is actually a road-width trail that accesses the oil wells. It's flat and straight, with essentially no features except a few small ruts. It's a bit sandy and loose but stays very easy the entire time. There are still signs indicating that it is limited to...
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This is an almost 4-mile-long wash loop that is designated for ATVs. The southeast entrance enters the North Twin Wash and heads west. It's a smooth and wide white sand wash, with rock walls to the side, lots of bushes, and pinyon lining the wash. There are several unmarked wash intersections, so th...
Learn more about North Twin Wash to Pickering Arroyo ATV

This 3.3-mile-long easy ATV trail leaves from a main dirt road on the south end and climbs up a loose dirt hill, then winds up and over the small rolling desert hills and into the washes. It's marked with trail signs to help follow the route. A lot of it is easy sandy washes, but it also has some lo...
Learn more about Coyote Cat ATV

This is an easy ATV trail in the Glade Run Recreation Area that winds between juniper trees in a high desert terrain. It's mostly dirt, with a bit of sand, with lots of whoops. It's ATV width for 50" vehicles and is marked by ATV signs the whole route. The west end starts off of a main dirt road, an...
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Mostly gravel with some rocky sections. Some washboard sections, but generally well maintained. This loop gets you up close to many of the classic scenes that Monument Valley offers. There are many overlooks and scenic points to stop at along the way. Ordinary cars are not allowed on the loop, but m...
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This is a 4-mile-long ATV loop in the Glade Run Recreation Area. It mostly goes through washes, oilwell roads, and easy ridge lines. The washes are smooth and sandy, with lots of tracks to follow, but they do have lots of intersections and split lines, so make sure to keep looking out for the ATV si...
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This is a 1.6-mile-long easy ATV trail that is a mix of dirt trail and easy wash. The west end starts on an oil well road and heads east towards the wash on a dirt trail through flat sagebrush desert terrain. There are ATV signs on the route to follow. Once you reach the wash, you can turn right, an...
Learn more about Wash ATV

This is 1.6 miles of Jeep trail through a sand wash. It starts on oilwell roads on either end and stays in the wash the entire time. There's an off-camber entrance into the wash on the east end that makes it more interesting. It's also only one vehicle wide at times, so it's much narrower than most ...
Learn more about Casanova Mount Wash

This 1.6-mile-long segment of trail is designated for dirt bikes only. It departs from another single track, and goes across a series of soft dirt hills, on a small ridgeline, constantly going up and down the rolling hills. There aren't any obstacles, and it only changes elevation by a few hundred f...
Learn more about Mini Ridge Singletrack

CR 7020 is a 7-mile off-road trail and oil access road that serves as the easiest and most direct route from Highway 550 to the Angel Peak Loop and Kutz Canyon. The trail combines sections of deep sand and packed dirt, providing a generally smooth drive under dry conditions. However, its accessibili...
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This is a point-to-point route that takes you from Road 550 in Nageezi to the Valley of Dreams trailhead/parking lot. The first quarter to half mile or so is paved but quickly turns to a graded dirt road which gets increasingly less groomed the closer you get to the trailhead. Rutted and rough in pl...
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Most of this ATV route is through a sand wash between sagebrush and pinyon pine trees. The wash is smooth and flat, with lots of tracks to follow and signs all throughout the wash to help mark the route. The wash is varying widths, sometimes really wide, and sometimes narrow between the bushes. It g...
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Comb Ridge is a 5.6-mile (11.2-mile round trip) out-and-back trail rated 3 of 10 located on the southern end of the Bear Ears National Monument. This trail is also known as the road to River House. This trail is rich in history both in Pre-Puebloan as well as the early Mormon settlers. This mostly h...
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This 5-mile-long dirt bike trail is an easy singletrack flowing through a flat desert terrain of pinyon bushes, sagebrush, and lots of whoops. It dips into ravines and goes up and down small rolling dirt hills, getting up on small ridgelines. Follow the signs for dirt bike. It crosses the road and p...
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Comb Wash Road follows the iconic Comb Ridge. The road itself is on BLM land and is suitable for most all-terrain vehicles. There are some water crossings in the Spring or when storms are nearby, so be careful to pay attention to weather reports. There are many side trails that lead to petroglyphs a...
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This is a 1.5-mile-long segment of a single track between two segments of the ATV trail. It's a narrow singletrack between pinyon pine trees on soft dirt in a flat desert terrain. It goes up and over tiny hills, getting up onto little ridgelines on the small hill. You can see really far into the hor...
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This is a graded dirt road, maintained sometimes. There are several side roads you can take. You'll see open desert terrain but have views of the rims and cliffs as you drive down the road. This road starts from CR 316 heading west. CR 244 continues beyond this track, heading farther west and north....
Learn more about CR 244 Johns Canyon Road

This is an easy desert ATV trail through the Glade Run Recreation Area. It's a mix of hardpacked dirt and slickrock with 1-foot ramped rock ledges and uneven layers of slickrock. It goes between cool rock formations and big juniper trees, making quick curves through the trees. It's a fun and fast tr...
Learn more about Glade Run ATV

The northern half of this loop goes through a wide white sand wash, with big sweeping curves through the open desert. It's lined with bushes and pinyon trees and is smooth with no obstacles. Shortly after a powerline, the wash splits, and this trail goes southeast into another almost similar wash th...
Learn more about Choke Cherry ATV

This is an almost 4-mile-long wash loop that is designated for ATVs. The southeast entrance enters the North Twin Wash and heads west. It's a smooth and wide white sand wash, with rock walls to the side, lots of bushes, and pinyon lining the wash. There are several unmarked wash intersections, so th...
Learn more about North Twin Wash to Pickering Arroyo ATV

This 3.3-mile-long easy ATV trail leaves from a main dirt road on the south end and climbs up a loose dirt hill, then winds up and over the small rolling desert hills and into the washes. It's marked with trail signs to help follow the route. A lot of it is easy sandy washes, but it also has some lo...
Learn more about Coyote Cat ATV

This is an easy desert ATV trail through the Glade Run Recreation Area. It's a mix of hardpacked dirt and slickrock with 1-foot ramped rock ledges and uneven layers of slickrock. It goes between cool rock formations and big juniper trees, making quick curves through the trees. It's a fun and fast tr...
Learn more about Glade Run ATV

Off of Da-Na-Zin Road, this short spur trail takes you to an overlook right on the edge of the Bisti badlands. There is a closed gate at the entrance that should be closed behind you. This short two-track trail has a few washouts but can be done in any typical 4WD SUV or truck. The trail is tight, s...
Learn more about Bisti Badlands Overlook

This is 1.6 miles of Jeep trail through a sand wash. It starts on oilwell roads on either end and stays in the wash the entire time. There's an off-camber entrance into the wash on the east end that makes it more interesting. It's also only one vehicle wide at times, so it's much narrower than most ...
Learn more about Casanova Mount Wash

CR 7020 is a 7-mile off-road trail and oil access road that serves as the easiest and most direct route from Highway 550 to the Angel Peak Loop and Kutz Canyon. The trail combines sections of deep sand and packed dirt, providing a generally smooth drive under dry conditions. However, its accessibili...
Learn more about RD 7020