Dirt Bike Trails Near Clifton, Colorado

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Coal Canyon

Close to Grand Junction, Coal Canyon provides easy access to multi-use recreation. This route begins in a wash and climbs to an overlook of Palisade. The trail continues in the wash, which gets narrower and…
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Total Miles
4.9
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

Windmill Loop

The beginning of this trail is much like Moab with a fun open ATV area. You'll get a nice stop at the shoreline of the Gunnison River and of course the windmill. You'll pass Billings…
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Total Miles
12.4
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Windmill Loop Single Track

This is a high desert single track for dirt bikes or mountain bikes. The trail is rocky with lots of side hill exposure. The trail has tight twisty sections through trees and rocks with a…
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Total Miles
7.6
Tech Rating
7 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

The Tabequache

The Tabeguache Trail is located in the Bangs Canyon Recreation Area and was developed with the help of the Grand Junction Four-Wheelers. You can find pretty much anything you're looking for here. All roads lead…
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Total Miles
16.2
Tech Rating
7 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Butterknife

Butterknife is a descending directional single track with tight turns, rock ledges, and some exposure. This is an exhausting, hard trail that will test your abilities. Butterknife is used by dirt bikes and mountain bikes.…
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Total Miles
11.3
Tech Rating
8 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi / Su

Monument Rocks

Spend some time with the wild horses on this out-and-back trail through LIttle Book Cliffs Wild Horse Area. There will be chance to take photos at some overlooks, and there are a few camping options.…
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Total Miles
25.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Mesa County Road 27 1/4

A great route for OHV and dispersed camping access in the Grand Junction area. Mostly loose gravel, though the later portion of the trail gets slightly more demanding with larger rocks, ruts, and washes. The…
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Total Miles
4.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Powerline Wash Loop

This sandy wash has fast tight banked turns and is a fun place to warm up before heading to other nearby trails. The wash is the first 1/4 of the loop with the remainder 6.5…
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Total Miles
9.4
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Billings Canyon

A world-class trail that tests the most experienced drivers. It is maintained by Grand Junction Four Wheelers and gives bragging rights to those who can drive it.
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
8 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Fa

25 and 27 1/4 Connector

This is a good option for connecting Mesa County Roads 25 and 27 1/4 as opposed to backtracking entirely to town. There are other routes in the vicinity to explore, though most either dead end…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Mesa County Road 25

A good resource for dispersed camping in the Grand Junction Area. There is a vast network of offshoots and alternate routes in this BLM area. Monitoring weather conditions prior to arrival is recommended. Use previously…
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Total Miles
6.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Second Thoughts

Singletrack dirt bike and mountain bike trail. Descends towards the Colorado river with only a few climbs and you return to the trailhead on Third Flats Road.The start of the trail has tight turns through…
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Total Miles
4.1
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Sp / Su

BLM Route 85

BLM Route 85 is a short single track in this trail system near Whitewater, Colorado. This trail doesn't apparently get much use, because both entrances to the trail are marked with official trail signs, but…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Sp

BLM Route 84

BLM Route 84 is a fun ATV trail with great views from the rim of a canyon looking down to the Gunnison River below. The canyon below is full of red sandstone rock on the…
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Total Miles
2.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

BLM Route 87

Starting from the staging area off Bean Ranch Road, BLM Route 87 starts as a wide dirt road, then peels off of the dirt road to the right at a trail sign for Route 87…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

BLM Route 90

BLM Route 90 is a short ATV trail within the trail system located off of Bean Ranch Road. It branches off of ATV Route 89 at both ends. From the north entrance to the trail,…
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Total Miles
1.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

BLM Route 89

BLM Route 89 is a short ATV trail in the trail system accessed off of Bean Ranch Road near Grand Junction, Colorado. It has wide swiping turns on a road width trail through pinyon pine…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Dry Fork

Follow Cocoran Wash for 13 miles and you will reach an overlook with great views into Hunter Canyon. The trail then follows a ridge with many opportunities to walk around and explore hoodoo rock formations.…
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Total Miles
40
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

BLM Route 80A

This is a short ATV trail accessed off of Bean Ranch Road in the trail system near Whitewater, Colorado. The trail takes you out to an overlook of the Gunnison River and a red rock…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

BLM Route 31

Route 31 begins towards the end of Cactus Park Road. The trail can be ridden in either direction and forms a loop. When ridden clockwise, the trail begins as an easy climb before reaching a…
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Total Miles
6
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Speer Hunter

This is a short, but very fun trail for all OHVs up the back of South Shale Ridge. Start with an easy climb, then drop down to Dry Fork. There are great lookout spots and…
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Total Miles
22.7
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp

21 Road South

21 Road South is a route providing further access to dispersed camping and OHV opportunities on BLM lands in the Fruita/Grand Junction area. The road is paved for little ways once on public lands before…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

BLM Route 196

BLM Route 196 is a fast single track in the North Fruita Desert trail system north of Fruita, Colorado. The east end of the trail starts at the back of a public utility plant on…
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Total Miles
3.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

BLM Route 197

This single track is similar to many of the other single tracks in the lower part of the North Fruita Desert, as it is a smooth and narrow single track that flows over the rolling…
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Total Miles
1.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

BLM Route 174

BLM Route 174 is primarily a pipeline access trail that runs from 21 Road to 16 Road. It can be used as a connector between these two points, however, not many opportunities exist for camping,…
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Total Miles
8.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Coon Hollow

Enjoy this relatively quiet trail that starts by crossing washes and travels through a canyon. You will then begin a steep climb up to a ridge with great views of South Shale Ridge and Twin…
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Total Miles
8.2
Tech Rating
8 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Orange Loop, North Fruita Desert

Orange Loop is a fun, flowy single-track trail in the North Fruita Desert. Trails here are well marked with dozens of options. The trail starts out heading east on a Jeep trail. You enter Branch…
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Total Miles
14.6
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Divide Road

This is a 90-mile long, wide-graded road up the middle of the Uncompaghre Plateau from Montrose to (almost) Grand Junction. Go from farmland to expansive areas of forest, then to the desert. This mellow graded…
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Total Miles
85.4
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Cloud City

Cloud City is a short trail in the North Fruita Desert that can be ridden as part of a bigger day loop with Cicada, Sky Walker, and Sarlacc. It meanders through low grass in a…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa

16 Road, Coal Gulch

Take this trail through a beautiful, winding canyon. Early on, you will have the option to continue straight to an overlook, or take a left and view the end of the extreme 21 Road trail.…
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Total Miles
13.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa