Dirt Bike Trails Near Meadow Lake, New Mexico

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FS 55 Tajique Canyon

This route is rocky in some areas and has other areas with deep ruts and slick, sticky mud with any type of moisture. It travels through private property before entering the Carson Forest. The route…
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Total Miles
7.1
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Fourth of July Campground

This route leads to the premier area to see the Big Tooth Maple in the Manzano Mountains. It is the largest stand of maples in New Mexico. The road is easy but narrow in spots.…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

FS 422 Priest Canyon

This route travels through the southern tip of the Manzano Mountains and connects the village of Manzano on State Highway 131 with State Highway 60. It travels along a right-of-way through private property on both…
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Total Miles
15.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Red Canyon Campground

This is an easy route to the beautiful, well-shaded, and peaceful Red Canyon Campground. The campground is at 7,600 feet in elevation. It can accommodate RVs up to 22 feet. It is easy access to…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

530 Road

530 Road is an old dirt road that is closed to motor vehicles other than motorcycles. It's super easy the whole way, being a smooth dirt road with only a couple of spots where there…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

West Boundary

West Boundary is an easy single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System that goes north to south along the west boundary of this OHV area in the Cibola National Forest. The land on the…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

106 Road

106 Road is a dirt bike trail in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System near Albuquerque, New Mexico. It runs south to north and is a quick way to connect the southern trails to ones farther…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Drop In

Drop In is a fast and easy single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System by Albuquerque, New Mexico. This trail starts and ends off of 106 Road, which is also easy. It has fast…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Cajun Pine

Cajun Pine is an easy trail in the Cibola National Forest near Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the most part, it's easy, with a few spots of embedded rock slabs, loose rocks, and small ledges. The…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

West Ridge

West Ridge is a 2.6-mile single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The south end starts at the intersection with Otero Canyon and heads north. It starts on the south…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Three Bottles

Three Bottles is the hardest trail in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System near Albuquerque, New Mexico. This trail is best for running south to north, as it goes through several huge rock problems that are…
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Total Miles
2.7
Tech Rating
9 Difficult
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Sp

Southern Crossing

Southern Crossing is an intermediate single track that connects the east and west portions of the Manzanita Mountain trail system. The east end starts off super easy before crossing State Highway 337. Be careful crossing…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Gnasty W/AG

Gnasty W/AG is an intermediate single track with several rocky obstacles. It climbs up from the south end of Otero Canyon to meet back up with the Blue Ribbon trail. It's a steady climb, only…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Otero Canyon

Otero Canyon is a really fun and easy trail in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System by Albuquerque, New Mexico. This one is scenic, fast, and flowy, with a few rocky sections. It starts from the…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Birdhouse Ridge

Birdhouse Ridge is an intermediate trail in the Cibola National Forest that gains 650 feet over 2.7 miles as it heads south. It starts at the Tunnel Trailhead off State Highway 337 and continues as…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
6 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Tunnel

Tunnel is a 2.6-mile-long single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System. It is accessed either from the Tunnel Trailhead or Otero Trailhead off State Highway 337, south of the town of Tijeras, New Mexico.…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Blue Ribbon

The Blue Ribbon single track is a 2.5-mile trail in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System that starts on the north end near the Otero Trailhead. The south end starts off of 106 Road. Going south…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Jackalope

Jackalope is a 2.3-mile-long single track that starts directly off State Highway 337 with no staging or parking area. The trail just starts behind a gate. You wouldn't notice this trail is here unless looking…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Deadman

Deadman is an easy/moderate single track in the Manzanita Mountain trail system near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The northern half of the trail is a fast ripper; it's smooth with no rocks. The trees aren't so…
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Total Miles
1.5
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Oak Flat Connector

Oak Flat Connector is a 0.8-mile single track on the south end of the Manzanita Mountain Trail System. Although short, it has some moderately challenging rock sections that will start your ride off with a…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Pine Loop

Pine Loop is a 1.6-mile trail that makes a loop with Gamble Oak and Pine Flat Connector. Starting on the west end, it steadily climbs up from the intersection with Pine Flat Connector on a…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Easy Pickin

This is an easy single track on the south end of the Manzanita Mountain Trail System. It starts on the east side as a wide and smooth dirt trail similar to the southern beginning of…
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Total Miles
0.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Pine Flat Connector

Pine Flat Connector starts on the north end at a large trailhead with pull-through parking spaces for trailers. It starts out as a very wide dirt road, then narrows up into a single track and…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Cedro Peak

Cedro Peak is an off road trail situated in the Cibola National Forest. You'll find several opportunities to take in this trail's views as you gain 1000 feet in elevation from Cedro Canyon to the…
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Total Miles
4.6
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Cedro Peak Loop via FR 542

Cedro peak is one of the best sets of 4x4 trails near Albuquerque. This route goes up to the peak using the more primitive FR 542 route, and then returns on the wide gravel roads…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Gamble Oak

Gamble Oak is a 2.2-mile single-track trail that makes a semi-loop with Poker Chip and Mahogany. The north end starts off with Poker Chip and starts out super easy in a gamble oak forest. It…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Powerline

Powerline Trail is a 2.7-mile long single-track trail in the Manzanita Mountain trail system just west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This trail is made up of several hard sections of rock ledge climbs that are…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
7 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Caida del Pino

This is a short trail that connects Gamble Oak to Easy Pickin. It's pretty wide like an ATV trail for the entire 0.6 miles, meandering through an oak and pine forest, with small rocks embedded…
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Total Miles
0.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Rabbit Run

Rabbit Run is a quick single-track trail that starts across the road from the Powerline Trail and gains 300 feet as it climbs to the top of a high desert hill in the Cibola National…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Delberts

Delberts is a challenging single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System near Albuquerque, New Mexico that has lots of rock ledges, roots, and shelfy sections of trail. This trail is slightly harder than some…
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Total Miles
3.9
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi