Dirt Bike Trails Near Big Timber, Montana

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Iron Mountain Road

Iron Mountain Road is a very scenic gravel road that becomes slightly narrower the further along you drive. Once passing the entrance gate you officially enter Gallatin National Forest and dispersed campsites can be found…
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Total Miles
7.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su

West Bridger Creek Cruise

A well-established trail, with some paved and gravel patches leading to the National Forest, the last 5 miles are the main dirt trail. The trail can be driven up to the Tie Cutter Gulch TH;…
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Total Miles
5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Bridger Creek Cruise

Enjoy this easy cruise, along Bridger Creek, off of Bridger Creek Road, named Main Bridger Creek Road. This route leads into the Gallatin National Forest; via sections of private and BLM land, the road starts…
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Total Miles
5.5
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Stillwater River Road

This is a well-maintained gravel road that follows the Stillwater River. It's open year-round with limited access during heavy snowy weather. The first 6.5 miles is a paved two-lane road west of Absarokee before turning…
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Total Miles
14.8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Benbow Jeep Trail

Benbow Jeep Trail is a 4x4 trail located in the Custer National Forest in Montana. It is 8.5 miles long and travel time is about 2 hours from parking to the mine site. The trail…
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Total Miles
8.1
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Su

Independence Pass

Independence Pass takes you from the bottom of the Boulder River Valley up through a very wooded trail with occasional glimpses of the surrounding mountains up to Blue Lake at the summit. Camping towards the…
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Total Miles
9.7
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Su

Goose Lake

A scenic, pleasant trail that takes you to the edge of the Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness. This trail has snow late into the summer, and it may be impassable due to snow into late July, or you…
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Total Miles
7.5
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Su

Lulu Pass

Lulu Pass Road is accessible at Goose Lake Road and is a 2-lane, somewhat maintained forest service road. It runs along Fisher Creek where you'll find an old abandoned mining community. At Sheep Pass it…
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Total Miles
2.9
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Henderson Mountain Road

Henderson Mountain Road is accessible from Daisy Pass Road and leads to an old abandoned mine at the top of the mountain. It is a rutted, single-lane shelf road with loose gravel but is worth…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Wicked Creek Loop

Open Dates: 7/16-9/14. Wicked Creek Loop is in the Absaroka Range and part of the Custer Gallatin National Forest on the Eastern side of the Paradise Valley, South of Livingston, Montana. Beginning at Mill Creek…
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Total Miles
16.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

Miller Mountain Road

Miller Mountain Road is a 1 lane dirt shelf road ascending through a sparse residential area above Cooke City, WY. The road is only somewhat maintained with potholes and loose rock, but the views of…
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Total Miles
3.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Pine Creek

This is a really pretty drive to some nice views and campsites. Nothing technical to worry about, a car could make it through with some determination. There is a small water crossing and some ruts,…
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Total Miles
4.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Olsen Creek

This is a nice drive through the Bridger range that most vehicles can do. The trail forks to Skunk Creek, which has some deep puddles, but nothing a stock truck or SUV wouldn't be able…
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Total Miles
19.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Crazy Lakes

The Crazy Lakes Road travels through a beautiful, remote area near the Wyoming-Montana border. The main route, Crazy Lakes Road, leads to the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness boundary while short side spurs can be driven to…
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Total Miles
5.5
Tech Rating
3 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

Start of Olsen Creek

The start of Olsen Creek Road is your basic gravel road, with somewhat deep potholes and parts of it washed out. There are no real obstacles or technical portions. There are tight switchbacks, so be…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Willow Park

Willow Park is a 50-inch trail that connects the Russell Point area to the Haymaker Park area via trails 464, 189, 619, and 606. You may also see the names Willow Park, Burley Creek, Daisy…
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Total Miles
11.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

Goose Creek Trailhead

This route is a standard gravel road that is similar to many roads that take you to remote trailheads in Montana and across the mountain west. There are plenty of potholes and washboard sections of…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Hellroaring Plateau

Hellroaring Road is a 4x4 trail located in the Custer Gallatin National Forest outside Red Lodge, Montana near the base of the Beartooth Highway. The trail is out and back, about 6 miles long each…
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Total Miles
7
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Su

Main Fork Rock Creek

This trail runs along Rock Creek and has some amazing views. Some spots have lose rocks but most of it is packed dirt. There are great spots to stop along the way down by the…
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Total Miles
7.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su

Lower Parkside

This trail is mainly just for OHV vehicles to get from one trail to another trail. There are some sandy spots with one hill that is pretty steep with loose rocks. This trail goes along…
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Total Miles
2.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Ghost Creek

This little-traveled trail begins as a 2 lane dirt road running through the forest and then turns into a dirt track following a ridge with the surrounding mountains as a backdrop. It follows a private…
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Total Miles
2.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Meeteetse Trail

Meeteetse Trail, east access, is located on the Montana and Wyoming border just south of Belfry, MT. The west trail can be accessed just south of Red Lodge, Montana. When accessing the Meeteetse Trail from…
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Total Miles
16.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Fantan Loop to Sawtooth Lake

Easy access to this trail is from the Beartooth Highway. The road begins as a maintained 2-lane forest service road but turns into a rocky, rutted 1-lane trail leading to Sawtooth Lake. Expect boulders up…
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Total Miles
4.2
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Sixmile Creek Road

Sixmile Creed Road is a very scenic out and back gravel road that becomes less maintained the further back you discover. The entrance can be found off Dailey Lake Road. From the entrance it is…
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Total Miles
4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

High Spring Creek

These are nice views along the middle section overlooking the valley below and Russian Flat. The ride is easy going on the western half of the trail with a few more difficult sections on the…
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Total Miles
6.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

Fantan Lake Road

This is a rutted, one-lane dirt trail leading to Fantan Lake. It had 6-8" obstacles and after rains, was full of mud holes along with a couple of small stream crossings Several dispersed camping areas…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Lower Russian Youth Loop

Lower Russian Youth Loop FS 463. The trail may start out looking like it simply goes to a campsite, ride on around that campsite to find the fork marking the start of the loop. 2.4…
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Total Miles
2.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Hay Canyon Trail

Open July 1 - Oct 14. Hay Canyon Trail is in the Little Belt Mountains, located in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, Southeast of Great Falls and Northwest of Harlowton, Montana. From Hay Canyon…
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Total Miles
7.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su

Heather & Emerald Scramble

Starting from the East Fork Hyalite trailhead, you will be winding and zipping through the trees headed south until you reach Emerald lake, followed by Heather Lake. Emerald is about 5 miles, with Heather being…
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Total Miles
5
Tech Rating
7 Difficult
Best Time
Fa / Su

Ettien Ridge

Open May 16 - Nov 30. The 2020 Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest MVUM indicates the East portion of the trail is open May 16 - Nov 30, and the West portion of the trail…
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Total Miles
11.4
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa