Dirt Bike Trails
Near Chowchilla, California

Starting from Highway 140, this rugged track drops nearly 1,500 feet and climbs less than 300 feet in under 4 miles before connecting with Ponderosa Way at the top. The trail averages 1 to 1.5 vehicles wide and is made up of uneven gravel and sand, giving it a rough, bumpy feel throughout. At about ...
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Burma Grade climbs almost 1,400 feet in 3 miles. The trail starts at Bull Creek Road and ends at Bull Creek Road South. To access it, take Briceburg Road behind the Briceburg Visitor Center and cross the bridge. The trail is managed by the BLM. The road is hard-packed dirt, about 1.5 vehicles wide, ...
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Buffalo Gulch begins from Feliciana Mountain Road and winds for nearly 2 miles along a narrow shelf road. The track is one vehicle wide, composed of hard-packed sand, and sees a gentle gain of 120 feet before dropping more than 250 feet toward the end. The route provides excellent views of the surro...
Learn more about Buffalo Gulch - FS 4S11

This sandy and dusty trail winds through canyon terrain, dropping 1,600 feet and climbing just over 400 feet across just over 5 miles of diverse landscape. Starting at the Stairway Trail and Sweetwater Trail junction and ending at Highway 140, the route traverses through the Sierra National Forest, ...
Learn more about Feliciana Mountain Road - FS 4S012

Sweetwater Ridge climbs almost 500 feet and drops almost 800 feet over just 3.6 miles, though this 7-mile out-and-back trail starts at Feliciana Mountain Road. The trail begins as a gravel surface and transitions to sand as it progresses, maintaining a single vehicle width throughout while providing...
Learn more about Sweetwater Ridge - FS 3S012

This trail climbs over 900 feet and drops almost 800 feet across just under 6 miles, creating a challenging route with significant elevation changes throughout the journey. The track winds up and down hills along ridgelines and shelf roads, providing spectacular 360-degree views of the surrounding m...
Learn more about Ferguson Ridge - FS 3S004

Branching off from Buffalo Gulch Trail, this 3-mile out-and-back route offers big views and a fun ridge-line drive. The sandy track drops more than 700 feet and gains just 90 feet over 2 miles, making it a steady descent out and climb back. The trail averages about 1.5 vehicles wide as it runs along...
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Pilot Cutoff (FS 6S063A) is a trail that comes with a serious warning label: "Horribly Tight." While it appears on the map as a useful connector within the Silver Knob/Miami network, in reality, it is a claustrophobic tunnel of vegetation that feels less like a road and more like a hiking path. The ...
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This trail connects Ferguson Ridge to the Sweetwater Ridge and Sweetwater Creek junction, climbing 220 feet and dropping just over 500 feet in less than a mile and a half. The very sandy trail cuts through hills affected by recent forest fire, creating a landscape of burned terrain and recovery vege...
Learn more about Bronson - FS 3S15

This is one of the longer and more difficult single tracks in the Miami OHV area. It starts with a small rock feature on the south end, where you have to go up a small ramped rock ledge in order to enter the trail. It continues on a shelfy hillside, weaving around the hill, over a couple of bridges,...
Learn more about 21E368

This is a 0.6-mile-long ATV trail that is very mild and easy, ideal for all skill levels. It starts and ends off of Silver Knob Road (FS 6S063), winding along a hillside on a wide and smooth two-track. The trail has just a little bit of loose rock at times, but remains mostly flat or gradual, with o...
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China Wells (FS 6S015) serves as the primary "spinal cord" of the Miami Mountain OHV system. This wide, well-graded forest service road runs north-south through the network, connecting the popular Kamook Staging Area to the southern reaches of the trail system. Unlike the tight, twisty spurs that br...
Learn more about China Wells - FS 6S015

This is a short and easy ATV trail through the northwest corner of the Miami OHV trail system. Although it is a steep grade for almost the entire 0.7 miles, it remains quite easy because this trail hasn’t been rutted out like many of the other ATV trails in the system, maybe because it is a bit fart...
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Silver Knob (FS 6S063) is the unruly cousin to the well-behaved gravel roads of the Miami Mountain system. While trails like Kamook offer a relaxing Sunday drive, Silver Knob demands you put your coffee down and grab the wheel with both hands. This tight, twisty two-track dives into the forest, imme...
Learn more about Silver Knob - FS 6S063

This is a short segment of single track, less than half a mile long, that weaves through a scenic forest of oak trees, Jeffrey pine, manzanita, and scrub oak. It is a narrow and winding trail, but it remains smooth and flowy the whole way, making it fun and approachable for less experienced riders. ...
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This is a short segment of single track that connects dirt bike trails 21E338 and 21E203. It is an easy segment of trail that weaves underneath a canopy of black oak trees and manzanita, tightly lined with scraggly bushes and scrub oak that encroach into the trail at times. The trail should be ideal...
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This is a short but moderately challenging single track in the Miami OHV Area that has some deep rutting that makes it more suited to more experienced riders. The trail steeply descends from south to north, dropping 340 feet in elevation gain in less than half a mile. The south end winds through the...
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This is an easy ATV trail in general, but as of September 2025, the trail had not been cleared of a few giant logs that will make it impassable for ATVs, and much more difficult for dirt bikes. The logs are very wide and sometimes elevated over the trail, requiring both going under and lifting over....
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This short ATV trail is a wide, silty path lined with scrub oak, in a dry forest terrain in the Sierra National Forest north of Oakhurst, California. The north end of the trail climbs up steeply from its intersection with 21E250. This is the steepest part of the trail, as it continues with a gradual...
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This is a short but challenging dirt bike trail in the Miami OHV area. There are several rock features right away that will test the inexperienced rider. They are embedded rock ledges, but they are slightly ramped, and you can kind of skirt the edge of the rock to make it slightly easier. There are ...
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Starting from Highway 140, this rugged track drops nearly 1,500 feet and climbs less than 300 feet in under 4 miles before connecting with Ponderosa Way at the top. The trail averages 1 to 1.5 vehicles wide and is made up of uneven gravel and sand, giving it a rough, bumpy feel throughout. At about ...
Learn more about Buffalo Gulch Road

Burma Grade climbs almost 1,400 feet in 3 miles. The trail starts at Bull Creek Road and ends at Bull Creek Road South. To access it, take Briceburg Road behind the Briceburg Visitor Center and cross the bridge. The trail is managed by the BLM. The road is hard-packed dirt, about 1.5 vehicles wide, ...
Learn more about Burma Grade Road

Buffalo Gulch begins from Feliciana Mountain Road and winds for nearly 2 miles along a narrow shelf road. The track is one vehicle wide, composed of hard-packed sand, and sees a gentle gain of 120 feet before dropping more than 250 feet toward the end. The route provides excellent views of the surro...
Learn more about Buffalo Gulch - FS 4S11

This sandy and dusty trail winds through canyon terrain, dropping 1,600 feet and climbing just over 400 feet across just over 5 miles of diverse landscape. Starting at the Stairway Trail and Sweetwater Trail junction and ending at Highway 140, the route traverses through the Sierra National Forest, ...
Learn more about Feliciana Mountain Road - FS 4S012

Starting from Highway 140, this rugged track drops nearly 1,500 feet and climbs less than 300 feet in under 4 miles before connecting with Ponderosa Way at the top. The trail averages 1 to 1.5 vehicles wide and is made up of uneven gravel and sand, giving it a rough, bumpy feel throughout. At about ...
Learn more about Buffalo Gulch Road

Burma Grade climbs almost 1,400 feet in 3 miles. The trail starts at Bull Creek Road and ends at Bull Creek Road South. To access it, take Briceburg Road behind the Briceburg Visitor Center and cross the bridge. The trail is managed by the BLM. The road is hard-packed dirt, about 1.5 vehicles wide, ...
Learn more about Burma Grade Road

Buffalo Gulch begins from Feliciana Mountain Road and winds for nearly 2 miles along a narrow shelf road. The track is one vehicle wide, composed of hard-packed sand, and sees a gentle gain of 120 feet before dropping more than 250 feet toward the end. The route provides excellent views of the surro...
Learn more about Buffalo Gulch - FS 4S11

This sandy and dusty trail winds through canyon terrain, dropping 1,600 feet and climbing just over 400 feet across just over 5 miles of diverse landscape. Starting at the Stairway Trail and Sweetwater Trail junction and ending at Highway 140, the route traverses through the Sierra National Forest, ...
Learn more about Feliciana Mountain Road - FS 4S012