Dirt Bike Trails
Near Crystal, New Mexico

This is a point-to-point route that takes you from Road 550 in Nageezi to the Valley of Dreams trailhead/parking lot. The first quarter to half mile or so is paved but quickly turns to a graded dirt road which gets increasingly less groomed the closer you get to the trailhead. Rutted and rough in pl...
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Off of Da-Na-Zin Road, this short spur trail takes you to an overlook right on the edge of the Bisti badlands. There is a closed gate at the entrance that should be closed behind you. This short two-track trail has a few washouts but can be done in any typical 4WD SUV or truck. The trail is tight, s...
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This double-track trail takes you through cattle grazing farmland and ends at an overlook. Cows can be seen near the trail. There is nowhere to camp or turn around until the end of the trail. The trail is smooth and can be done in 2WD under good conditions. The overlook is a great place to camp, rig...
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The route is relatively easy except for washboarding and ruts in spots. It takes you to breathtaking views of rock formations, including Castle Rock and Angel Peak. Picnic tables overlook the amazing canyons. The campground can accommodate single-vehicle campers and small trailers. There are several...
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This trail is a mixed-use oil and ranching road that runs between Route 550 and Road 7007. It offers relatively rapid access to the trails that zig-zag between Angel's Edge and Largo Canyon. From 550, the trail starts as a clay-based, deeply rutted road that cuts across the open, high desert grassl...
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CR 7020 is a 7-mile off-road trail and oil access road that serves as the easiest and most direct route from Highway 550 to the Angel Peak Loop and Kutz Canyon. The trail combines sections of deep sand and packed dirt, providing a generally smooth drive under dry conditions. However, its accessibili...
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While this trail is not technically challenging there are a lot of terrain changes over it's 7.5-mile length. The west end of the trail starts with dirt, packed clay, and sand in a fairly open setting before climbing up over some bare sandstone with some minor ledges to drop down through surrounding...
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Garage Trail is an intermediate rock crawling trail in the Glade Run Recreation Area. It's recommended to have at least 35" tires, aired down, and front or rear lockers, and recovery gear, and to expect multiple attempts for stock vehicles. It starts about 2 miles up from the Choke Cherry Staging Ar...
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This 1-mile long trail starts on Glade Road and takes you north to the Rock Edge Well trail. It's a road-width trail and is marked by ATV signs throughout the route, but it's in the Open OHV Area of Glade Run. There are several slickrock ledges right away and throughout the mile-long route. They are...
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After the Skinny Canyon, if you take the loop to the west, the wash narrows up and gets really rocky, with several big boulders a couple of feet tall, and a foot-tall ledge all the way across the wash. It comes up to an extreme obstacle that is at least 10 feet tall, with a crack down the middle and...
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Bear Trail starts after the Skinny Canyon and makes a semi-circle to the top of Beaver Falls as an easier alternative to Beaver Falls (but still challenging). Once at the top of Beaver Falls, you can bail out to the west onto an easier road. As you start the loop after Skinny Canyon, you'll go up a ...
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Anasazi Refrigerator is a relatively short trail with several climbs and descents that will test the driver and their machine. The trail begins right off Power Line Road with the Refrigerator obstacle. There are multiple different levels and options that you can put your rig through as is the case w...
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Bone Crusher is a short but extreme rock crawling trail. It has multiple split-line obstacles where you can choose an extreme or less challenging path. From the west end, it starts off with a narrow climb up a slickrock waterfall, in a V between the rock walls, where you'll likely be grinding the si...
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This is a 1.5-mile long rock crawling trail full of advanced obstacles. They often have split lines, with easier versus harder lines to choose from, and sometimes have a bypass, but most of the obstacles require extreme caution, driver experience, proper recovery gear, and it's helpful to have vehic...
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Skinny Canyon is an intermediate trail in the Glade Run Recreation Area that starts from the north in a sand wash. It's wide to start but narrows up as you go south. It's only a third of a mile but leads to one of the most extreme obstacles in the recreation area, which is Beaver Falls. It comes up ...
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This short trail weaves through a desert terrain of juniper bushes on hardpacked dirt and sand. It has a couple of small rock ledges a foot or two high. It comes up to an optional large obstacle that is a steep rock ledge slope that would be about a 6 or 7 difficulty due to its steepness. You can ch...
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There's a gatekeeper right at the southern entrance to Big Johnson that is a tall vertical wall about 6+ feet tall, approached through a narrow slot in the rock formation. If the gatekeeper is at your limit of difficulty, you shouldn't proceed. After the first obstacle, going east is the main extrem...
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7 Waterfalls is a short but gnarly rock-crawling trail in the Glade Run Recreation Area. It has several extreme waterfall obstacles that are 6-foot or more tall ledges that are nearly vertical. The trail makes a figure 8 shape, and you'll likely want to do it in a counterclockwise direction starting...
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Cobra starts off from the south end with several advanced slickrock ledges right away. They are steep ~5-foot-tall rock ledges. There is an optional challenging obstacle between two tall and skinny rock pinnacles near the beginning. It drops down into a wide sandy wash with signs to follow for the r...
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The Upper Rim trail is a really scenic and very challenging 4x4 trail, with frequent advanced obstacles. From the Power Line Road, it starts by winding through the juniper trees on a dirt road, then descends down a couple of steep slickrock slab faces into the sand. Throughout this route, you'll hav...
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This is a point-to-point route that takes you from Road 550 in Nageezi to the Valley of Dreams trailhead/parking lot. The first quarter to half mile or so is paved but quickly turns to a graded dirt road which gets increasingly less groomed the closer you get to the trailhead. Rutted and rough in pl...
Learn more about Valley of Dreams East

This double-track trail takes you through cattle grazing farmland and ends at an overlook. Cows can be seen near the trail. There is nowhere to camp or turn around until the end of the trail. The trail is smooth and can be done in 2WD under good conditions. The overlook is a great place to camp, rig...
Learn more about Chaco Overlook

The route is relatively easy except for washboarding and ruts in spots. It takes you to breathtaking views of rock formations, including Castle Rock and Angel Peak. Picnic tables overlook the amazing canyons. The campground can accommodate single-vehicle campers and small trailers. There are several...
Learn more about Angel Peak Picnic and Campground

This trail is a mixed-use oil and ranching road that runs between Route 550 and Road 7007. It offers relatively rapid access to the trails that zig-zag between Angel's Edge and Largo Canyon. From 550, the trail starts as a clay-based, deeply rutted road that cuts across the open, high desert grassl...
Learn more about Jacquez Canyon Road

This is a point-to-point route that takes you from Road 550 in Nageezi to the Valley of Dreams trailhead/parking lot. The first quarter to half mile or so is paved but quickly turns to a graded dirt road which gets increasingly less groomed the closer you get to the trailhead. Rutted and rough in pl...
Learn more about Valley of Dreams East

Off of Da-Na-Zin Road, this short spur trail takes you to an overlook right on the edge of the Bisti badlands. There is a closed gate at the entrance that should be closed behind you. This short two-track trail has a few washouts but can be done in any typical 4WD SUV or truck. The trail is tight, s...
Learn more about Bisti Badlands Overlook

This double-track trail takes you through cattle grazing farmland and ends at an overlook. Cows can be seen near the trail. There is nowhere to camp or turn around until the end of the trail. The trail is smooth and can be done in 2WD under good conditions. The overlook is a great place to camp, rig...
Learn more about Chaco Overlook

The route is relatively easy except for washboarding and ruts in spots. It takes you to breathtaking views of rock formations, including Castle Rock and Angel Peak. Picnic tables overlook the amazing canyons. The campground can accommodate single-vehicle campers and small trailers. There are several...
Learn more about Angel Peak Picnic and Campground