Dirt Bike Trails Near Paonia, Colorado

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Overland Reservoir

This is a scenic graded road over Grand Mesa between Paonia and Collbran, easy enough to be done in a passenger car. Overland Reservoir is owned by Overland Ditch and Reservoir Company, founded in 1903…
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Total Miles
58
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Smith Mountain

Smith Mountain is a fairly easy and enjoyable trail. BLM signs call it Smith Mountain Jeep Trail. Starting at the south end. this trail runs through the low country of Peach Valley then turns and…
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Total Miles
33.3
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Leon Lake

Leon Lake Jeep trail goes between Cedaredge and Vega Reservoir. A scenic trip, although a bit rocky and bumpy through the center portion. Leon Lake is a beautiful lake at a little over 10,000' elevation.…
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Total Miles
28.9
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

Gunnison Gorge South River Road

Just outside of Delta Colorado, inside Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area you'll find a beat up gravel road that leads you down to the Gunnison river. Most SUV's and trucks will not have an issue…
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Total Miles
4.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Silver Spruce to High Trail Loop

Mostly 50" track with several creek crossings, steep climbs, and descents. This trail winds through Aspen and Spruce forest before traveling across the Grand Mesa. There are cattle grazing, deer, elk, bears, and moose to…
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Total Miles
28.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Smith Mountain Jeep Road Overlook

Just outside of Delta, Colorado, inside Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area, you'll find an unmaintained jeep trail that leads you out onto a peninsula with spectacular views of the Gunnison Gorge. The trail overall is…
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Total Miles
4.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Park Creek/Salt Creek Loop

This loop offers an easy to moderate mix of terrain with great vistas, aspen groves, moderate stream crossings, and wildlife. A Colorado state park pass will be needed to enter Vega State Park which gives…
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Total Miles
17.2
Tech Rating
3 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Red Rocks-Nighthorse Trail

This trail offers rock steps, loose washed out steep terrain, and a flowy single track that overlooks the Black Canyon. The trail can be done in either direction. Heading South from Ute Road toward Dinasour…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Soap Creek FR 721

At mile 11 starting from Highway 92, the road starts getting harder. At this point, you start up a steep hill that has loose rocks and can be challenging especially if it is wet. Once…
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Total Miles
9.8
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Wave-Eagle Loop

Wave-Eagle Loop is a short trail that begins in an ATV off-road area, climbs up, and follows a ridge with distant views of Gunnison Gorge, then returns to the ATV area. The Peach Valley Open…
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Total Miles
12.6
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

Spikes

Spikes is a short trail in Peach Valley that goes between the top and bottom of a mesa. It's a consistent grade the entire way, dropping 900 feet elevation from the top of the mesa…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Elephant Skin Road

Elephant Skin Road is an easy Jeep trail between Montrose and Olathe. There are a few shallow gullies across the road, but can be done with any vehicle with a bit of clearance. There is…
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Total Miles
15.5
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Red Rocks

Red Rocks Trail is a fun single track in the Flat Top Peach Valley Recreation Area. Access it by following Elephant Skin Road all the way to the back of the valley where the adobe…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Black Ridge

Black Ridge is one of the more technical trails in Peach Valley but has incredible views from on top the mesa once you make it through all the rock ledges. Starting at the southern trailhead,…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
7 Difficult
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Dump Ridge

Dump Ridge is a single track in the adobe badlands of the Flat Top - Peach Valley Recreation Area. The trail follows a ridge line on top of the adobe clay hills with lots of…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Curecanti Creek Road FR 720

This road is easy, however, when wet, it can get really muddy in spots. The fourth campground that is marked is a really nice spot with room for 1-2 RV trailers. It's in the trees…
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Total Miles
6.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Sunset Rocks

Sunset Rocks is a tight twisty single track through rocky desert terrain on the side of a mesa with pinyon pine and red rock. The trail starts at the intersection of Eagle Valley and Sidewinder…
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Total Miles
2.7
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Moonlight Mesa

Moonlight Mesa is one of the longer single tracks in the adobe badlands of the Peach Valley Recreation Area. The SE trailhead on Elephant Skin Road is in the back of the adobe badlands where…
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Total Miles
4.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Mystery Ditch

Mystery Ditch is a fun twisty ditch trail with very tight curves and banked corners. The trail rides through the bottom of a dirt arroyo with dirt walls several feet high. The trail is overall…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Eagle Valley

Eagle Valley is a highlight of visiting the Peach Valley riding area and shouldn't be missed if up for a rocky challenge. The trail is short, only 1 mile, but one of the more difficult…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Teton Ridge

Teton Ridge trail is a narrow single track in the Flat Top - Peach Valley recreation area, which is a 9,700-acre area mostly of adobe clay badlands. It goes up and over a series of…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Ponds Ridge

Ponds Ridge is an adobe ridge line trail similar to most of the ridge line trails in the Flat Top- Peach Valley Recreation Area. It's a narrow single-track trail made up of ascents and descents…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

South Elephant Ridge

South Elephant Ridge is a single track in the Flat Top - Peach Valley Recreation Area that follows a skinny ridge line on top of adobe clay hills. Like most of the trails in the…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Teton - Kings Ditch Connector

The small unmarked single track connecting Teton Ridge and the Kings Ditch is a very narrow single track that drops 500 feet in a mile in order to get off the adobe hills and down…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Landfill Connector

This is an unmarked single track in the Flat Top- Peach Valley adobe badlands near the town of Montrose, Colorado. It branches off of another similar single track on a ridge line to make a…
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Total Miles
2.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Candy Cane Loop

Candy Cane Loop is an adobe ridge line loop for 50" vehicles in Peach Valley, but has some spots that may be quite narrow for an ATV. Going clockwise, it starts as a winding and…
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Total Miles
3.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Landfill Ridge

This unmarked single track starts at a small dirt area off of the paved Landfill Road that goes to the dump. It is an unmarked trailhead and there are no trail signs in this area.…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

No Name Ridge

No Name Ridge is a fun single track near the Elephant Skin Staging Area of the Flat Tops-Peach Valley recreation area. The trail follows a ridge line atop the soft adobe clay hills that make…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

South Landfill Ridge

This unmarked trail is part of the trail system in the adobe badlands outside of Montrose, Colorado. This trail is fainter and less ridden than some of the ridge line trails closer to the staging…
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Total Miles
4.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

Peach Valley Loop

Peach Valley Loop is one of several ATV trails in the Peach Valley Recreation Area. It is an easy and wide two track making a loop on the adobe clay badlands that make up much…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp