Dirt Bike Trails
Near Angels Camp, California

This is a super pretty drive as it descends into the canyons and back up to the mountaintops. On your way to the lookout, you will drive through the Italian Bar/Lost Dutchman Mining Camp, which is a cool place to either pay to camp or you can pay and go gold panning in the river. After leaving there...
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This trail is a connector between the American Camp Lookout and the Forebay trail. Connect all these 3 trails for a fun weekend or day trip full of adventure and fishing/exploring! There is a creek crossing as well as a bridge crossing with some swimming holes. Be prepared for some mud and ruts, es...
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This a very easy trail and is mostly forest roads that zig-zag up the hill to the Forebay. This can be accessed from many ways whether it be from Columbia, Twain Harte, or Camp 9. The Camp 9 entrance is the fastest way in and is a pretty drive looking over the Stanislaus River. Fishing? Try the Fore...
Learn more about Stanislaus Forebay

As of May 26, 2023. This road is accessible by vehicles of higher clearance than sedans. This is due to the fire road are not as flat and maintained as Google Maps makes it out to be. When driving on the road, there will be moderately size ruts, and bumps running across the width of the road due to ...
Learn more about Candy Rock Road

As of May 26, 2023. This road is accessible by vehicles of higher clearance than sedans. This is because the fire roads are not as flat and maintained as Google Maps makes them out to be. When driving on the road, there will be moderately size ruts, and bumps running across the width of the road due...
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This trail is steep, overgrown, and narrow. Typically home to lots of poison oak and fallen trees but the reward at the end is totally worth it! Keltz Mine road takes you down to the South Fork Stanislaus River and ends at a camping area. There are fish and swimming holes and slippery rocks so bewar...
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Connecting the White Pines Lake recreational area with neighboring backcountry routes, Forest Service Road 5N56 serves as an accessible forest thoroughfare within the Stanislaus National Forest. The route winds through a shaded mixed-conifer environment dominated by tall ponderosa pines, incense ced...
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This is a wide and easy ATV trail that goes through the southwest corner of the Interface OHV trail system for 1.7 miles. This one is mostly just a wide access corridor that accesses several other trails, and then you can take this to return to the beginning or staging area instead of having to take...
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Forest Service Road 5N52 serves as an essential backcountry connector linking recreational staging areas, camping clearings, and branching motorized routes within the Stanislaus National Forest. The route winds through a mixed-conifer woodland characterized by towering ponderosa pines, mature incens...
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This is a very easy ATV trail that is less than half a mile long, and has no technical elements. It is very wide, smooth, straight and fast, making it ideal for riders of all skill levels. It doesn’t have any rocks or obstacles. It gently curves through the forest of tall oak, cedars and pines, lin...
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This is a 0.6 mile long dirt bike trail that has some deeper rutted sections making it slightly more technical. The east end starts out pretty rutted, dropping off of the ATV trail 15EV111, and going down a couple small and uneven rut and root ledges. It descends pretty steeply through the forest fo...
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Mandel Road - FS Road 5N55 serves as a smooth connector link bridging Forest Road 5N56 and Forest Road 7N08 near the White Lake area. Set within the Stanislaus National Forest, the corridor travels through a shaded, verdant mixed-conifer woodland framed by towering pines, incense cedars, and lush gr...
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Branching off Forest Service Road 5N52 at the staging area, FS 5N41Y serves as a backcountry connector linking into the surrounding motorized trail network within the Stanislaus National Forest. The route winds through a shaded mixed-conifer woodland characterized by towering pines, fragrant cedars,...
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This is a wide and easy ATV trail that starts out on the south end lined with small manzanita shrubs and under towering pine trees. It has small loose rocks and shallow ruts, gradually ascending up a hillside, but is mostly a smooth dirt path. It gets a bit narrow in a couple spots between the shrub...
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The south end of this trail starts at an intersection with 15EV60, and it steeply climbs up for less than half a mile until it connects with the ATV trail 15EV73. The entire route is a narrow and shelfy trail cut into the hillside, lined with pines and manzanitas. It hugs the hillside, with small lo...
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This is a short dirt bike only trail that connects the ATV trail 16EV223 with the singletrack 16EV407, near the Deer Creek Staging Area. Taking this trail cuts off having to go back to Italian Bar Road and reenter the trail system. It’s a pretty gradual grade throughout the quarter mile, as it climb...
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This is the only ATV trail near the Deer Creek Staging Area, and is probably mostly used by dirt bikes to access the trail system. It’s a short trail, only 1.4 miles long, and it mostly climbs up from Italian Bar Road to FS 4N16 on a semi-steep path with sections of loose rock. It’s pretty narrow be...
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This is a short and easy trail in the Interface Trail System that winds through the forest. Its east entrance starts on FS 5N41Y and it zig zags west for 1.2 miles. The beginning has some deeper ruts and troughed out sections, sometimes dug out a foot below the forest floor. There are a few embedded...
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This is one of the longer and more difficult trails within the Interface Trail System. The east entrance spurs off of 15EV62, and it starts steeply descending down a deeply rutted path with small loose rocks. Some of the ruts are at least a foot deep, and it side-hills down an exposed hillside lined...
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This is a short spur off of 16EV223. It winds through the forest, and has a couple of downed logs on the trail. It probably doesn’t get ridden as much since it’s just a short spur very close to the Deer Creek Staging Area. The trail is closely lined with lots of small young pines. Some of the downed...
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This is a super pretty drive as it descends into the canyons and back up to the mountaintops. On your way to the lookout, you will drive through the Italian Bar/Lost Dutchman Mining Camp, which is a cool place to either pay to camp or you can pay and go gold panning in the river. After leaving there...
Learn more about American Camp Lookout

This trail is a connector between the American Camp Lookout and the Forebay trail. Connect all these 3 trails for a fun weekend or day trip full of adventure and fishing/exploring! There is a creek crossing as well as a bridge crossing with some swimming holes. Be prepared for some mud and ruts, es...
Learn more about Forebay to American Camp

This a very easy trail and is mostly forest roads that zig-zag up the hill to the Forebay. This can be accessed from many ways whether it be from Columbia, Twain Harte, or Camp 9. The Camp 9 entrance is the fastest way in and is a pretty drive looking over the Stanislaus River. Fishing? Try the Fore...
Learn more about Stanislaus Forebay

As of May 26, 2023. This road is accessible by vehicles of higher clearance than sedans. This is due to the fire road are not as flat and maintained as Google Maps makes it out to be. When driving on the road, there will be moderately size ruts, and bumps running across the width of the road due to ...
Learn more about Candy Rock Road

This is a super pretty drive as it descends into the canyons and back up to the mountaintops. On your way to the lookout, you will drive through the Italian Bar/Lost Dutchman Mining Camp, which is a cool place to either pay to camp or you can pay and go gold panning in the river. After leaving there...
Learn more about American Camp Lookout

This trail is a connector between the American Camp Lookout and the Forebay trail. Connect all these 3 trails for a fun weekend or day trip full of adventure and fishing/exploring! There is a creek crossing as well as a bridge crossing with some swimming holes. Be prepared for some mud and ruts, es...
Learn more about Forebay to American Camp

This a very easy trail and is mostly forest roads that zig-zag up the hill to the Forebay. This can be accessed from many ways whether it be from Columbia, Twain Harte, or Camp 9. The Camp 9 entrance is the fastest way in and is a pretty drive looking over the Stanislaus River. Fishing? Try the Fore...
Learn more about Stanislaus Forebay

As of May 26, 2023. This road is accessible by vehicles of higher clearance than sedans. This is due to the fire road are not as flat and maintained as Google Maps makes it out to be. When driving on the road, there will be moderately size ruts, and bumps running across the width of the road due to ...
Learn more about Candy Rock Road