Dirt Bike Trails
Near Gardiner, Montana

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 4.2 miles to the end and gains 725ft in elevation. It can all be done in a 2WD vehicle with decent ground c...
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Wicked Creek Loop offers an accessible and scenic escape for offroaders seeking a leisurely mountain drive with panoramic views of Paradise Valley and the surrounding peaks. Situated in the Absaroka Range within the Custer Gallatin National Forest south of Livingston, Montana, this 19.8-mile trail i...
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Bulldozer Road is a nice drive right off Mill Creek Road. The road starts off with a series of very tight switchbacks and continues on for about 4 miles with a very consistent 8-10 percent grade. You will not need Four Wheel Drive or any ground clearance to make it to the top of this road. There ...
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Buffalo Horn single track starts at the Buffalo Horn Trailhead, at the end of Buffalo Horn Creek Road, off Highway 191. It begins on a wide dirt path, with tons of aggressive deep bumps and troughs horizontally across the trail from horse usage. It crosses small streams, sometimes going over small b...
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Mill Creek Road is a very well-maintained gravel road that accesses several trailheads and campgrounds in the Gallatin National Forest. This road is a wide gravel road, except for the last three miles, in which the road narrows down to a single-vehicle-width road. This part of the road is very narro...
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The Porcupine single track connects Buffalo Horn in the south to Porcupine Creek in the north. It goes for 7 miles through the Gallatin National Forest, through a mix of wide open grassy meadows, and denser forest. The trail through the meadows is really narrow and skinny, and sometimes rutted and m...
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From the north end, the Ramshorn Lake trail starts in the meadows, then goes along the creek for a long way and has a bunch of embedded rock features and roots, and does a little bit of side-hilling. There are lots of jarring rocky and rooty sections with embedded boulders that beat you down, but no...
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The Golden Trout Lakes is a short trail that starts at the Upper Portal Trailhead at a big dirt parking lot. It goes south through the dense forest on a wide dirt path with lots of small roots across the trail. It has small embedded rocks, tight curves through the forest, tight hairpin turns, and co...
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The Hidden Lake Cutoff trail goes through the Gallatin National Forest for 2 miles between the Golden Trout Lakes and Hidden Lake Divide single tracks. It's an intermediate connector trail with lots of embedded rocks, roots, and tight curves. There are no significantly large ledges or obstacles, but...
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The Cinnamon Trail starts on the east end at the Cinnamon Creek Trailhead. It climbs up into aspen trees through beautiful meadows, on a fast and flowy single track that is smooth and narrow. There are several muddy spots that are rutted, and there are small embedded boulders that you have to ride o...
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The Skyline ATV trail starts at the Teepee Creek Trailhead in the Gallatin National Forest at a small dirt parking lot. This trail is open to vehicles 50" or less, and there is a boulder pinch point as it enters the forest. It's a very easy two-track for the entire 5 miles until it meets up with the...
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This is a .5-mile-long single track that accesses the Cabin Creek Cabin, which is a remote log cabin that you can rent by reservation. It's a single-room cabin that was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. The trail to get there loops off of the Red Cub trail, and is an easy single...
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The Hidden Lakes ATV trail starts at the Hidden Lakes Trailhead, which is accessed through Portal Creek Road and Hidden Lakes Road. The first 1.5 miles up to the intersection with the Hidden Lakes Divide single track is relatively easy. It's a wide dirt two-track between a forest of pine trees, with...
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The last half mile of the Hidden Lakes ATV trail is extremely rocky and difficult and is essentially impassable to ATVs due to near vertical climbs requiring very technical hard enduro-style riding for dirt bikers. It gets extremely difficult after the first Hidden Lake. It becomes narrow and more l...
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The Hidden Lake Divide Trail starts out from the south end as a skinny trail going fast through wide open grassy meadows with small creek crossings. There are small wooden bridges over the creeks, and sometimes it's muddy and boggy, with rutted spots in the meadows. It enters the forest with lots of...
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Lower Buck Ridge is a short ATV trail that is open 6/16 - 12/1 to vehicles 50" or less. The entire 2 miles of trail are a super wide dirt path. It looks more like an old road it's so wide. It's super easy the whole way, with hardly any rocks and mostly smooth dirt. Watch out for bikers and UTVs head...
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The Wapiti Creek single track leaves from the Upper Wapiti Trailhead on Forest Service Road 2522. From the trailhead, it starts off as the Oil Well ATV trail, and then the single track peels off on the right side after a minute. It starts as a narrow single track through grassy wide open meadows, go...
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If you want to experience a little Yellowstone but are not planning on going to the park, this trail has a few hidden gems. It is a day-use area and runs right along the Yellowstone park boundary. There are a couple of day-use pull-offs at scenic spots, and you do have to drive down them to enjoy th...
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This is a beautiful dirt and gravel trail that heads up to a couple of hiking trailheads. There are two designated dispersed campsites on the way up. One had an Airstream parked at it when this was run. The lower part of this trail has views out over Hegben Lake, and then the trail continues uphill ...
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The Red Cub Trail (also called Cub Cr. - Red Canyon Trail) is a longer single track through the Gallatin National Forest south of Big Sky, Montana. The southeast end starts at the Red Canyon Trailhead off FS Road 681, with a small parking area and a couple of dispersed camping sites. It starts off f...
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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 4.2 miles to the end and gains 725ft in elevation. It can all be done in a 2WD vehicle with decent ground c...
Learn more about Sixmile Creek Road

Wicked Creek Loop offers an accessible and scenic escape for offroaders seeking a leisurely mountain drive with panoramic views of Paradise Valley and the surrounding peaks. Situated in the Absaroka Range within the Custer Gallatin National Forest south of Livingston, Montana, this 19.8-mile trail i...
Learn more about Wicked Creek Loop

Bulldozer Road is a nice drive right off Mill Creek Road. The road starts off with a series of very tight switchbacks and continues on for about 4 miles with a very consistent 8-10 percent grade. You will not need Four Wheel Drive or any ground clearance to make it to the top of this road. There ...
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Mill Creek Road is a very well-maintained gravel road that accesses several trailheads and campgrounds in the Gallatin National Forest. This road is a wide gravel road, except for the last three miles, in which the road narrows down to a single-vehicle-width road. This part of the road is very narro...
Learn more about Mill 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 4.2 miles to the end and gains 725ft in elevation. It can all be done in a 2WD vehicle with decent ground c...
Learn more about Sixmile Creek Road

Bulldozer Road is a nice drive right off Mill Creek Road. The road starts off with a series of very tight switchbacks and continues on for about 4 miles with a very consistent 8-10 percent grade. You will not need Four Wheel Drive or any ground clearance to make it to the top of this road. There ...
Learn more about Bulldozer Road

Mill Creek Road is a very well-maintained gravel road that accesses several trailheads and campgrounds in the Gallatin National Forest. This road is a wide gravel road, except for the last three miles, in which the road narrows down to a single-vehicle-width road. This part of the road is very narro...
Learn more about Mill Creek Road

If you want to experience a little Yellowstone but are not planning on going to the park, this trail has a few hidden gems. It is a day-use area and runs right along the Yellowstone park boundary. There are a couple of day-use pull-offs at scenic spots, and you do have to drive down them to enjoy th...
Learn more about Cougar Cr Park Boundary