Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Victor, Idaho

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South Grove Creek

South Grove Creek is a 2-mile-long dirt bike single track in the Targhee National Forest, climbing nearly 1,000 feet from east to west between the Grove Creek Motorized Trailhead and the Big Hole Crest Trail.…
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Total Miles
1.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

North Grove Creek

North Grove Creek is a lightly used 1-mile ATV trail located in Targhee National Forest, offering a bit of exploratory mileage from the Grove Creek Motorized Trailhead. The southern entrance is marked only by a…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Nickerson Grove

Nickerson Grove is an easy ATV trail that starts at the Long Ridge Motorized Trailhead, which is accessed through private land--riders should stay on the road and respect property boundaries. The two-track trail begins at…
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Total Miles
3.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

South Horseshoe

South Horseshoe is a nearly 6-mile-long dirt bike trail that offers a scenic and flowing ride, well-suited for newer riders. The route features curvy, mountain bike-style singletrack with smooth dirt, benched corners, wide lines, and…
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Total Miles
5.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Upper Crankshaft

Upper Crankshaft is a maintained counter clock, single-track. Signs are posted for your safety. Do not ride it in the opposite direction. This trail can get super dusty in the summer months. Flows nicely through…
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Total Miles
6.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Crankshaft

This is a 3.1-mile-long segment of the larger 9.4-mile Crankshaft Loop, which allows one-way travel and should be ridden in the clockwise direction. This section is characterized by smooth, fast-flowing singletrack that winds through open…
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Total Miles
2.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Arm Pump

Arm Pump is a 4.2-mile-long single-track trail that winds through scenic meadows and groves of slender aspen trees. The trail is narrow in places, bordered by tall grasses and wildflowers during the summer months. It…
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Total Miles
3.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Kickstart (Kid's Loop)

Kickstart is a short 0.3-mile-long loop designed for beginner riders, particularly kids. The trail begins with smooth, fast-flowing single track and travels through flat open meadows. The dirt is hard-packed and easy to ride, and…
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Total Miles
0.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Gear Down

Gear Down is a 1.4-mile-long loop that offers an easy ride through forested areas and open meadows filled with tall grass and wildflowers. The trail has a few small climbs with embedded rocks and mildly…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Idaho Falls to Fall Creek Falls

This trail is an easy trail and a more scenic and fun route to Fall Creek Falls. Fall Creek Falls is a beautiful waterfall where Fall Creek meets the South Fork of the Snake River.…
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Total Miles
28.4
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Jensen Forest Road

Jensen 058 Forest Road is a well-maintained service road through Caribou-Targhee National Forest. Beautiful views, make sure to bring a camera and mosquito repellant. Cell services coverage is limited. Seasonal: Open to ATV, dirt bikes,…
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Total Miles
11.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Poison Creek

Poison Creek is a 2-mile-long singletrack trail that climbs gradually from north to south, gaining approximately 600 feet in elevation. The north end of the trail begins at a small trailhead off Wilson Fall Creek…
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Total Miles
1.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

Wally World

Wally World is a 1.6-mile-long narrow singletrack trail located within the Munger trail system. The route passes through tall grasses, wildflowers, and groves of slender aspen trees, offering expansive views of the mountains and the…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

West Fork #863 Elk Creek

Elk Creek Road is a continuous slow uphill climb with beautiful views of the Caribou National Forest. Elk Creek is one lane wide with a few pulls off along the dirt road. This is a…
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Total Miles
4.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Tusky Ridge

Tusky Ridge is a 2.3-mile-long singletrack trail that gradually descends from south to north, losing approximately 600 feet in elevation. The route flows smoothly through groves of aspens and fields of wildflowers, with a combination…
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Total Miles
2.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

Squaw Creek

Squaw Creek is a 1.6-mile-long single-track trail that climbs gradually through a scenic forest dominated by aspens and tall grasses. Traveling from north to south, the trail gains approximately 600 feet in elevation, but the…
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Total Miles
1.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Rash Canyon

This route is a fun beginner route that makes a loop up Rash Canyon. You can start at either the South Fork Fall Creek Motorized Vehicle trailhead at 43.39266, -111.45023, or you can start at…
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Total Miles
9.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su

Rock Creek

Rock Creek is an almost two-mile-long narrow single-track trail that begins off of Big Munger Trail near the staging area. The route traverses sagebrush-covered hillsides and winds through scenic meadows and forested sections. The trail…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Dans Creek to Caribou Basin

This route takes you next to the Caribou Range just outside of Idaho Falls. The ride starts with beautiful, sweeping views of Gray's Lake outlet, which is lush and green well into August and is…
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Total Miles
45.7
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Poison Flats Trail Exploring

The route begins at Poison Flats Trailhead, climbs to Poison Flats, and follows the trail to Long Canyon Road. Cut off to the weather station and park at the pond below. Walk up to the…
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Total Miles
9.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Jackass Loop Trail (FS 264)

Jackass Loop is a well-maintained two-way dirt road that crosses the Idaho-Wyoming state boundary in the Targhee National Forest. Running parallel to the Ashton-Flagg Ranch Road, the trail weaves through dense birch and pine trees…
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Total Miles
16.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su

Old Palisades

Old Palisades can be taken from the Town of Alpine to the Palisades Reservoir instead of taking Old Alpine Road. Since this trail is adjacent to many homes, keep speed to 15 miles per hour…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Burns Trout Creek Trail

Fun trail for all levels of riding. In the spring and early summer the trail has lots of deep run-offs, ruts, mudholes and dispersed creek water. There are two major, year around, water crossing which…
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Total Miles
4.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Ashton-Flagg Ranch Lake Road

This backcountry drive connects Flagg Ranch near Yellowstone's south entrance to the farmlands surrounding Ashton, Idaho. The road travels between the roadless Winegar Hole Wilderness to the north and the Jededia Smith Wilderness to the…
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Total Miles
32
Tech Rating
3 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

Spalding Bay Road

Spalding Bay Road takes you to Jackson Lake, a primitive Campground, and a boat ramp in the beautiful Grand Teton NP. The majority of the road is gravel, easy to drive. The restroom at the…
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Total Miles
2.1
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Skyline Ridge - Brockman FS 40075

This trail is a main trail/feeder route for other Forest Service trails. Popular with elk hunters, it is passable in any 4x4. Most of the trail is dirt, with a few rocky sections and small…
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Total Miles
13.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Caribou City Trail #165

This road is highly visited, and worth the trip in winter (snowmobile only) and in Spring, Summer, and Fall. At the end of this ORV trail, you will learn about 1860s Caribou City Mining Town…
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Total Miles
3.4
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Squaw Creek

This trail has two important notes. First is that it is only open to 50" ATV's or smaller. Second is that it is seasonal : open July 1st through August 10th. This trail offers beautiful…
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Total Miles
10.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

Black Mountain - 004

You just completed Pat Canyon and you will see a gate. Public access is permitted beyond the gate. The trail meanders along the west side of the Black Mountain with 3.5 miles of easy switchbacks…
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Total Miles
3.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Shadow Mountain

This is one trail you don't want to miss. If you're in the area to find epic views of the Grand Tetons and free camp spots, then this trail is for you! The trail is…
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Total Miles
11.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

ATV Trails Near Victor, Idaho

North Grove Creek

North Grove Creek is a lightly used 1-mile ATV trail located in Targhee National Forest, offering a bit of exploratory mileage from the Grove Creek Motorized Trailhead. The southern entrance is marked only by a…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Nickerson Grove

Nickerson Grove is an easy ATV trail that starts at the Long Ridge Motorized Trailhead, which is accessed through private land--riders should stay on the road and respect property boundaries. The two-track trail begins at…
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Total Miles
3.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Jensen Forest Road

Jensen 058 Forest Road is a well-maintained service road through Caribou-Targhee National Forest. Beautiful views, make sure to bring a camera and mosquito repellant. Cell services coverage is limited. Seasonal: Open to ATV, dirt bikes,…
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Total Miles
11.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

West Fork #863 Elk Creek

Elk Creek Road is a continuous slow uphill climb with beautiful views of the Caribou National Forest. Elk Creek is one lane wide with a few pulls off along the dirt road. This is a…
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Total Miles
4.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Rash Canyon

This route is a fun beginner route that makes a loop up Rash Canyon. You can start at either the South Fork Fall Creek Motorized Vehicle trailhead at 43.39266, -111.45023, or you can start at…
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Total Miles
9.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su

Dans Creek to Caribou Basin

This route takes you next to the Caribou Range just outside of Idaho Falls. The ride starts with beautiful, sweeping views of Gray's Lake outlet, which is lush and green well into August and is…
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Total Miles
45.7
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

UTV/Side-by-Side Near Victor, Idaho

Idaho Falls to Fall Creek Falls

This trail is an easy trail and a more scenic and fun route to Fall Creek Falls. Fall Creek Falls is a beautiful waterfall where Fall Creek meets the South Fork of the Snake River.…
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Total Miles
28.4
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Jensen Forest Road

Jensen 058 Forest Road is a well-maintained service road through Caribou-Targhee National Forest. Beautiful views, make sure to bring a camera and mosquito repellant. Cell services coverage is limited. Seasonal: Open to ATV, dirt bikes,…
Learn more about Jensen Forest Road
Total Miles
11.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

West Fork #863 Elk Creek

Elk Creek Road is a continuous slow uphill climb with beautiful views of the Caribou National Forest. Elk Creek is one lane wide with a few pulls off along the dirt road. This is a…
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Total Miles
4.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Dans Creek to Caribou Basin

This route takes you next to the Caribou Range just outside of Idaho Falls. The ride starts with beautiful, sweeping views of Gray's Lake outlet, which is lush and green well into August and is…
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Total Miles
45.7
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Jackass Loop Trail (FS 264)

Jackass Loop is a well-maintained two-way dirt road that crosses the Idaho-Wyoming state boundary in the Targhee National Forest. Running parallel to the Ashton-Flagg Ranch Road, the trail weaves through dense birch and pine trees…
Learn more about Jackass Loop Trail (FS 264)
Total Miles
16.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su

Old Palisades

Old Palisades can be taken from the Town of Alpine to the Palisades Reservoir instead of taking Old Alpine Road. Since this trail is adjacent to many homes, keep speed to 15 miles per hour…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa