Dirt Bike Trails Near Basalt, Idaho

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Bone to Wolverine Brush Creek Run

This route is easily passable by any overland rig and most family SUVs. It takes you through a mix of private cattle ranches and public land. You will pass through rolling sagebrush hills and several…
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Total Miles
38.6
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Idaho Falls to Wolverine Canyon

This route takes you from Idaho Falls up Bone Road, past the Bone Store, and up the Wolverine Canyon. It is a fun ride to take all year round for a Sunday drive or a…
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Total Miles
17.5
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / 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
28.5
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Bone to Caribou Loop

This route takes you from Bone Road to the Caribou Loop. It is in a gorgeous valley with mountains to the West that stay green year-round and are very pretty as the leaves turn in…
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Total Miles
21.7
Tech Rating
1 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
46
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Menan Butte to Market Lake

This is a fun route to explore the desert area between the Menan Buttes and Market Lake Wildlife Area. The trail starts out at the parking area across from the buttes and winds through the…
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Total Miles
13.1
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Cranes Flat Cutoff

This trail is a graded gravel cutoff road between Blackfoot Reservoir Road and Bone / Grays Lake Road. It is a generally smooth road through a mix of private cattle ranches and public land. It…
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Total Miles
11.6
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Boundary Trail

The Boundary Trail is a great 37-mile loop that circles around the majority of the Portneuf Range near Pocatello. This trail is open to mountain bikes, motorcycles and ATVs. There is a 50" limit, so…
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Total Miles
34
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
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

Stinking Springs

This trail is fun for beginners and anyone looking to bypass riding the river road to get to more double and single track. The views of the Snake River Plain and the South Fork of…
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Total Miles
5.9
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su

Razorback Ridge

This trail is commonly known to locals as Razorback Ridge, due to the lone ridge with a knife's edge summit you will drive below. It runs through uneven, rocky BLM ground in high desert sagebrush.…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Springfield to Big Southern Butte

The route takes you from Springfield, Idaho to Big Southern Butte via part of Goodale's Cutoff. For a brief history of the cutoff see below. This trail is best ridden in the spring when the…
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Total Miles
25.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

West Y

This lightly traveled two-track trail cuts through fields of sagebrush. In the Springtime and even into early summer, wildflowers dot the sides of the trial. The route is sandy, with little cactus scattered here and…
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Total Miles
3
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

A Mile and a Half Road

First of all, it's closer to three miles, but maybe they first ran it on foot, and it seemed shorter. This is a fun trail that is mostly traveled by cattle. It is a sandy…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Antelope Creek to Fall Creek

This route takes you from Antelope Creek Road to Fall Creek Road through the beautiful foothills of Conant Valley. The route includes lots of water even late in the season and lots of bridges. Elk…
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Total Miles
12.2
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

Gray's Lake Outlet

This route will take you off Brockman Road to the Gray's Lake Outlet Area. It is a very grassy area that is home to fish, sandhill cranes, and lots of other birds, as it is…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

East 2200 North

Smooth, flat, and loose gravel is what this route is all about. It's super wide with no washboard. There is access to the St. Antony Sand Dunes Open Area off this trail. These access trails…
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Total Miles
8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

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
9.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Atomic City to Frenchman's Cabin

This route will take you from the main highway to Big Southern Butte. If you have not been to Big Southern Butte, it is worth the trip. The butte is one of the largest volcanic…
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Total Miles
14.2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

St. Anthony Sand Dunes Western Access

This trail is sandy and offers access to the western side of the St. Anthony Sand Dunes Open Riding area. The western side has really big sand dunes. The route is heavily whooped and bumpy…
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Total Miles
2.7
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Scout Mountain

This trail is just outside of Pocatello. It goes into the National Forest, so there is some free camping in this area. On this trail, you will gain 3,000 feet in elevation. You start down…
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Total Miles
11
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

St. Anthony Sand Dunes-Egin Lake to Devils Dune

This is a free ride route over the St. Anthony Dunes. The route will take you along the southern route of the Sand Dunes and cuts up over the top to Devil's Dune. The return…
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Total Miles
8.2
Tech Rating
7 Difficult
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

Old Ranger

Old Ranger is a trail that has been around for years, and offers great views of the South Fork of the Snake River that is accessible very early in the year. It is a great…
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Total Miles
12.4
Tech Rating
6 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Old Ranger

This single track winds along the bench of the North Fork with awesome views of the snake river valley and the area. This is one of my favorite trails to ride in late spring/early summer…
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Total Miles
5.6
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Burns Creek, Hell Hole, and Coalmine Access

This trail runs up to the cutoff to Coalmine, Hell Hole, and Big and Little Burns trailheads. It rides along Burns creek for a mile and a half anywhere up to 50 feet above the…
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Total Miles
1.5
Tech Rating
7 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Red Ridge

This trail has amazing views of the Swan Valley. It is not for the faint of heart ,as it is very narrow when you actually reach Red Ridge. But the views are more than worth…
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Total Miles
20.1
Tech Rating
9 Difficult
Best Time
Su

Beer Run

The trail starts near Saint Anthony Sand Dunes in open desert cattle land. The route, then takes you through forests by the Island Park Reservoir, and ends by following between the road and Henrys Fork.…
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Total Miles
50.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Willow Creek to Caribou Mountain FS#50018

This trail is an offshoot/access trail for the already published Caribou Loop trail. The trail is passable with high clearance 4x4, SxS, and dirt bikes. This is a steep trail through dense timber, opening up…
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Total Miles
4.1
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Fall Creek Indian Creek

If you are looking for a fun ride where you are riding through a creek over 75% of the time this is the ride for you. Super fun, lush, and green due to Indian Creek…
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Total Miles
3.8
Tech Rating
10 Difficult
Best Time
Su / Fa