Dirt Bike Trails
Near Albuquerque, New Mexico

This trail is a roller-coaster-style trail with constant ups and downs over small hills, deep ruts, and sandy terrain. Minimum 33-inch tires recommended due to the uneven terrain and deeper sand sections. Lockers are not required. The trail is mostly manageable until you drop into the wash, where a ...
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This scenic ridge-top trail features rolling ups and downs, hill climbs, and multiple offshoots leading down both sides of the hills. Terrain includes sections of light sand (around 4 inches deep) and varied elevation changes. The trail includes a long descent that connects to the Edge of the Earth ...
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This is a river wash trail featuring deeper sand sections, winding turns, and gradual hill climbs near the end. The route runs along the bottom of two small hills with changing terrain throughout. Located in the Montessa OHV Park area and suitable for vehicles prepared for sandy conditions. "Big Dig...
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Center of the Earth is a quick technical sand section featuring deep sand and tight turns. This trail requires careful throttle control and maintaining momentum through softer and deeper areas. This runs at the base of the canyons and has some off-camber areas. It is a fun challenge for vehicles equ...
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This scenic ridge-top trail with wide views and mostly consistent elevation features some minor ruts but is generally smooth along the top of the hills. Multiple offshoots branch down both sides of the hills, offering access to different routes and obstacles. The trail ends at an area with multiple ...
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Earth Wash Trail features sand sections where maintaining momentum can be important. A portion of the route is blocked, but following the mapped trail avoids the blocked portion and instead leads to an old water tank and back to the other trails and hills in the area. Mostly a sandy exploration rout...
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Birdhouse Ridge is an intermediate trail in the Cibola National Forest that gains 650 feet over 2.7 miles as it heads south. It starts at the Tunnel Trailhead off State Highway 337 and continues as a very curvy, narrow, shelfy trail with difficult rock obstacles. There are lots of rocky sections wit...
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West Ridge is a 2.6-mile single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The south end starts at the intersection with Otero Canyon and heads north. It starts on the south end by climbing up a few easy switchbacks. The switchbacks themselves aren't hard, but there a...
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This is a short 1.1-mile-long trail starting at the Coyote Trailhead, which has several spots for parking. It starts through a pinch point at a gated dirt road. It parallels the dirt road on a flowy dirt single track with a couple of rock slab sections. Other than a few obstacles, most of the trail ...
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Chamisoso starts out on the west end as a flowy, smooth dirt trail through a grassy meadow elevated above a ravine. The beginning is a 2 difficulty. After the intersection with Coyote Split, it comes up to a bigger ledge obstacle that is more like a 5 difficulty. It's a series of two ledges in a row...
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Otero Canyon is a really fun and easy trail in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System by Albuquerque, New Mexico. This one is scenic, fast, and flowy, with a few rocky sections. It starts from the north at the Otero Trailhead, which is a big pull-off on Highway 337 with space for lots of vehicles. You ...
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Tunnel is a 2.6-mile-long single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System. It is accessed either from the Tunnel Trailhead or Otero Trailhead off State Highway 337, south of the town of Tijeras, New Mexico. The trail is full of tight curves, switchbacks, and rock obstacles. The south end is pret...
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Coyote is a 5-mile-long single track in the Manzanita Mountain OHV area that is popular with dirt bikers, mountain bikers, and hikers. It's very windy through a forested desert terrain full of pinyon pine and juniper trees. The trail has lots of rock slab sections and moderate rock obstacles. The ob...
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Jackalope is a 2.3-mile-long single track that starts directly off State Highway 337 with no staging or parking area. The trail just starts behind a gate. You wouldn't notice this trail is here unless looking for it. You'll need to be street-legal to connect the west end of this trail with any of th...
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Gnasty W/AG is an intermediate single track with several rocky obstacles. It climbs up from the south end of Otero Canyon to meet back up with the Blue Ribbon trail. It's a steady climb, only gaining 220 feet of elevation. It has a steady flow of loose rocks though. The trail is narrow as it climbs ...
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Southern Circle is located on BLM land in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. This trail can give you access to some tribal land, so be careful not to take other routes. It is an easy off-road drive through the desert. The trail is easy and well-maintained dirt roads, some rocky roadsand loose rocks. You will a...
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Coyote Split is a 2-mile single track that connects the Coyote Trail to the Chamisoso Trail. It's narrow and shelfy at times, with loose rock and embedded slab rock ledges in the dirt trail. It goes along the top of a mesa and drops down off of the mesa into a flat and grassy meadow at the intersect...
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Three Bottles is the hardest trail in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System near Albuquerque, New Mexico. This trail is best for running south to north, as it goes through several huge rock problems that are marked as directional in the south-to-north direction. The main trail is made up of lots of mo...
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Powerline Trail is a 2.7-mile long single-track trail in the Manzanita Mountain trail system just west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This trail is made up of several hard sections of rock ledge climbs that are steep and on loose dirt. The beginning of the trail starts off of the ATV bypass trail, whic...
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Rabbit Run is a quick single-track trail that starts across the road from the Powerline Trail and gains 300 feet as it climbs to the top of a high desert hill in the Cibola National Forest. It has a couple of rocky switchbacks in order to get on top of the hill. There are a couple of blunt rock ledg...
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This trail is a roller-coaster-style trail with constant ups and downs over small hills, deep ruts, and sandy terrain. Minimum 33-inch tires recommended due to the uneven terrain and deeper sand sections. Lockers are not required. The trail is mostly manageable until you drop into the wash, where a ...
Learn more about Edge of the Earth

This scenic ridge-top trail features rolling ups and downs, hill climbs, and multiple offshoots leading down both sides of the hills. Terrain includes sections of light sand (around 4 inches deep) and varied elevation changes. The trail includes a long descent that connects to the Edge of the Earth ...
Learn more about Above Earth

This is a river wash trail featuring deeper sand sections, winding turns, and gradual hill climbs near the end. The route runs along the bottom of two small hills with changing terrain throughout. Located in the Montessa OHV Park area and suitable for vehicles prepared for sandy conditions. "Big Dig...
Learn more about Through Mars

Center of the Earth is a quick technical sand section featuring deep sand and tight turns. This trail requires careful throttle control and maintaining momentum through softer and deeper areas. This runs at the base of the canyons and has some off-camber areas. It is a fun challenge for vehicles equ...
Learn more about Center of the Earth

This trail is a roller-coaster-style trail with constant ups and downs over small hills, deep ruts, and sandy terrain. Minimum 33-inch tires recommended due to the uneven terrain and deeper sand sections. Lockers are not required. The trail is mostly manageable until you drop into the wash, where a ...
Learn more about Edge of the Earth

This scenic ridge-top trail features rolling ups and downs, hill climbs, and multiple offshoots leading down both sides of the hills. Terrain includes sections of light sand (around 4 inches deep) and varied elevation changes. The trail includes a long descent that connects to the Edge of the Earth ...
Learn more about Above Earth

This is a river wash trail featuring deeper sand sections, winding turns, and gradual hill climbs near the end. The route runs along the bottom of two small hills with changing terrain throughout. Located in the Montessa OHV Park area and suitable for vehicles prepared for sandy conditions. "Big Dig...
Learn more about Through Mars

Center of the Earth is a quick technical sand section featuring deep sand and tight turns. This trail requires careful throttle control and maintaining momentum through softer and deeper areas. This runs at the base of the canyons and has some off-camber areas. It is a fun challenge for vehicles equ...
Learn more about Center of the Earth