Beginner Off-Road Trails Near Westcliffe, Colorado

Located just outside the town of Westcliffe, Colorado, this overland-style trail offers spectacular views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range. Alvarado Road- CR 140 is a maintained, dirt and rock trail that offers access…
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This easy tour takes you through the non-alpine area southeast of Buena Vista. This is a good chance to see what the backcountry looks like east of the Collegiate Range. You will pass through National…
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This is an easy trail that takes you through areas of meadows at the top and bottom with forested areas in the middle. There are spots where there is some logging operation in progress. At…
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This road is easy but rocky and narrow in some places. The west end of the road can get muddy after wet weather for the first couple of miles and can be challenging. After that,…
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This easy ATV trail makes a fast and east loop around the staging area of the Texas Creek Recreation Area. It's a wide dirt two track with not many rocks. It's a fast and flowy…
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The trail is pretty easy unless wet; then it is really muddy in places. Sometimes when conditions are wet and muddy, the BLM will close the gate. The trail travels up through pinyon pine, cedar…
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This is an easy trail. At the top of the trail, there is a T intersection;the loop to the right is not traveled very much and can be hard to follow. On the road to…
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This is a USFS road in the San Carlos Ranger District. The road is accessed off of CO-165 via Ditch Creek Rd. The road is an out-and-back trail that offers access to multiple dispersed camping…
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This is a wide gravel road that you can use to connect many trails in the area. To make loop routes you can go down Meadow Divide forest road 639 then come back up Salt…
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This is a fun easy road. 4WD is only needed if it's snowy. The trail travels up to the top of the mountain where there are some good views, and then it travels down a…
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This trail is easy when dry but requires 4WD if snowy. The route travels through pine forest and has some good views to the south. At the T intersection, if you go right it goes…
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This is an easy winding road that has a few rocky spots that are easy to get around. The road takes you through open meadows and then through forest areas. It has nice views across…
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This road is fairly easy as it is a county/Forest Service road that gives you access to several jeep trails, hiking, dispersed camping, and mountain biking trails. The road travels through open pasture lands with…
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This is a well-maintained graded dirt road. It will be passable for any road-worthy vehicle in good weather conditions. If poor weather does occur, it could be trouble for road cars. A 4x4 with clearance…
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An easy and fairly scenic Jeep trail.Badger Creek has nothing above timberline, but is a nice drive along Sand Gulch, with lots of open views along the north segment that follows the powerline. You cross…
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This is a heavily used network of trails that starts just south of Cripple Creek. A former stage coach route, Shelf Road takes you on a ride through history with old mines and ghost towns.…
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This is a side road off 5935 which you will find at the T intersection about 1-mile fromm the main road. The route is about 1/2 mile long and ends short of where the maps…
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Road a little rutted at start-up to T intersection. Turning right and staying on 5935 as you get higher it gets rocker in some places. The roads can get muddy after wet weather. If it…
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The road at the beginning is easy, about halfway you encounter a short rocky section. It gets easy until you get within about a 1/2 mile of the end where it drops down a fairly…
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This ATV trail starts from the Seep Springs staging area, and starts curving through the pinyon trees with lots of very curvy turns tightly through the trees. There are a few sections with either loose…
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This trail starts directly out of the Seep Springs staging area, and will likely be the first trail you take if making a clockwise loop on all the ATV trails. It starts in a flat…
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Maverick Trail is 1.6 miles long, for vehicles 50" or less. The north end starts at a wooden pinch point and enters the pinyon pine trees. You have to duck under several branches when making…
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The road is easy on the lower sections, however, it can get muddy after wet weather. On the upper section toward the end, there is a rocky area that requires high clearance. The road ends…
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This short ATV trail through the Seep Springs Recreation Area connects 5830C to 5830G. The north end starts off narrower between the pinyon pine trees in the beginning. It goes along the edge of a…
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This is a short drive over a well-maintained gravel road to Zapata Falls which are really cool to hike to and enjoy. The falls have about a 30' drop, but the section you walk to…
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The road is easy at the beginning and gets rocker toward the top in several sections. The road is narrow for the first mile and on weekends the area is very busy. At the start,…
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An easy ride from Countryside Tour GP to Highway 9 in the lower country east of Buena Vista. The central part of the trail follows 31 Mile Creek through part of the Pike National Forest,…
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Penrose Commons OHV Trail# 6102A is the trail that overlooks a narrow valley where the famous Patriot trails traverse (Independence Trail, Patriot Trail, and Liberty Trail). Although this trail connects the well-known extreme 4x4 trail,…
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This trail travels through open meadows and rolling hills. This trail will connect to other trails in the area around and up to the top of Black Mountain. The trail is fairly easy but can…
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This ATV trail starts off of BLM Route 6102, just north of the Penrose Commons parking lot. It starts as a flat two-track with small loose rocks, going through wide open grassy terrain with pinyon…
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