Dirt Bike Trails
Near South River, New Mexico

This area is a local Bloomfield favorite. The trail crisscrosses Crouch Mesa, with the northwest end starting in Flora Vista near Road 3100 and the northeast access point picking up a little off of 550. While it is a standard two-car width and sometimes deeply rutted track, it cuts across several tr...
Learn more about Crouch Mesa

This trail is 2.7 miles of easy wash trail through the Johnson Arroyo. The wash stays pretty wide the whole time, with lots of tracks to follow. From the south, it goes through the easy, flat and smooth sandy wash, between sage brush, and small pinyon bushes. It curves through the wash around tall d...
Learn more about Johnson Arroyo ATV

From the south, this trail starts as a wide dirt trail between the pinyon trees, with portions of the trail in the beginning that are full-width roads. It turns off of the main road back into pinyon trees on a narrower trail. It's a bit rutted and uneven, with washouts. The trail goes over chunky la...
Learn more about Narrow Wash ATV

This loop starts from an oil well access road and enters the desert terrain on a mid-width trail ideal for 60" SXSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes. Going counterclockwise from the south, it goes out onto a ridgeline on the soft clay dirt hills in this badlands-type terrain. The ridgeline has a lot of whoops....
Learn more about CMT East Loop

This is a mid-width trail ideal for 60" SXSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes that goes through a badlands-type desert terrain between Aztec and Bloomfield, New Mexico. It goes on a ridgeline on the soft clay dirt hills, overlooking the valley below. Watch out for the barbed wire fence that parallels the trail...
Learn more about Bloomfield SXS

This trail is tight and twisty with many surprises over hidden hillcrests. Take it slow and easy or you might lose a mirror. Recommended travel direction of east to west on this trail will help minimize any potential head-ons with other SXSs or ATVs. This is one of the approved cross-over trails for...
Learn more about SXS/ATV Test Your Skills Trail

This segment of ATV trail turns southwest from the Barton Arroyo, and goes straight over the flat ground, following an access road for the natural gas line. It's designated for ATVs and crosses several other roads, trails, and wash intersections during its route. It's easy and fast because it's real...
Learn more about Gasline ATV

This trail starts after Anna's Ridge and continues on the narrow ridgeline on the clay hills. It has sweeping turns and little descents and climbs as it goes from each hilltop to the next. It's super fast and flowy, with whoops, but no major obstacles, just a bit of exposure on each side of the ridg...
Learn more about Tent Rocks

This is a 1.6-mile-long easy ATV trail that is a mix of dirt trail and easy wash. The west end starts on an oil well road and heads east towards the wash on a dirt trail through flat sagebrush desert terrain. There are ATV signs on the route to follow. Once you reach the wash, you can turn right, an...
Learn more about Wash ATV

This route is a mix of oil well roads, and mid-width trail ideal for 60" SxSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes. It goes through an open desert near Aztec, New Mexico. It's made up of primitive oil well/natural gas access roads that are less maintained, with shallow ruts and washouts and sandy wash crossings. Y...
Learn more about Three Eyed Monkey

This is 1.6 miles of Jeep trail through a sand wash. It starts on oilwell roads on either end and stays in the wash the entire time. There's an off-camber entrance into the wash on the east end that makes it more interesting. It's also only one vehicle wide at times, so it's much narrower than most ...
Learn more about Casanova Mount Wash

The north end of this easy trail starts at the end of the road between the baseball diamond and dog park near Aztec, New Mexico. It goes up a steep hill right away and gets up on a ridgeline, overlooking the park and fishing pond. It goes over the rolling hills made of soft clay and dirt, on a mid-w...
Learn more about Anna's Ridge

This short and narrow trail near Aztec, New Mexico, starts on the route for a disc golf course in badlands-type desert terrain. It's a narrow ridgeline that is most ideal for ATVs and dirt bikes but would be rather too narrow for a 60" SXS. It drops down from the ridgeline into the flat part of the ...
Learn more about Rhinos Ridge

This 3.3-mile-long easy ATV trail leaves from a main dirt road on the south end and climbs up a loose dirt hill, then winds up and over the small rolling desert hills and into the washes. It's marked with trail signs to help follow the route. A lot of it is easy sandy washes, but it also has some lo...
Learn more about Coyote Cat ATV

Just north of Bloomfield, this route is primarily used by locals and oil and gas trucks to access oil sites or the trails that crisscross the area between NM 550. From Bloomfield, it's the access point to a lot of great places east of US 550, north of US 64, west of the San Juan River, and south of ...
Learn more about Arizona Road/CR 4900 Extension

The northern half of this loop goes through a wide white sand wash, with big sweeping curves through the open desert. It's lined with bushes and pinyon trees and is smooth with no obstacles. Shortly after a powerline, the wash splits, and this trail goes southeast into another almost similar wash th...
Learn more about Choke Cherry ATV

This 5-mile-long dirt bike trail is an easy singletrack flowing through a flat desert terrain of pinyon bushes, sagebrush, and lots of whoops. It dips into ravines and goes up and down small rolling dirt hills, getting up on small ridgelines. Follow the signs for dirt bike. It crosses the road and p...
Learn more about Apple West Singletrack

This trail is designated for dirt bikes but is actually a road-width trail that accesses the oil wells. It's flat and straight, with essentially no features except a few small ruts. It's a bit sandy and loose but stays very easy the entire time. There are still signs indicating that it is limited to...
Learn more about Oilwell Road (Dirt Bike)

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...
Learn more about Upper Rim

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...
Learn more about Garage Trail

This area is a local Bloomfield favorite. The trail crisscrosses Crouch Mesa, with the northwest end starting in Flora Vista near Road 3100 and the northeast access point picking up a little off of 550. While it is a standard two-car width and sometimes deeply rutted track, it cuts across several tr...
Learn more about Crouch Mesa

This trail is 2.7 miles of easy wash trail through the Johnson Arroyo. The wash stays pretty wide the whole time, with lots of tracks to follow. From the south, it goes through the easy, flat and smooth sandy wash, between sage brush, and small pinyon bushes. It curves through the wash around tall d...
Learn more about Johnson Arroyo ATV

From the south, this trail starts as a wide dirt trail between the pinyon trees, with portions of the trail in the beginning that are full-width roads. It turns off of the main road back into pinyon trees on a narrower trail. It's a bit rutted and uneven, with washouts. The trail goes over chunky la...
Learn more about Narrow Wash ATV

This loop starts from an oil well access road and enters the desert terrain on a mid-width trail ideal for 60" SXSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes. Going counterclockwise from the south, it goes out onto a ridgeline on the soft clay dirt hills in this badlands-type terrain. The ridgeline has a lot of whoops....
Learn more about CMT East Loop

This area is a local Bloomfield favorite. The trail crisscrosses Crouch Mesa, with the northwest end starting in Flora Vista near Road 3100 and the northeast access point picking up a little off of 550. While it is a standard two-car width and sometimes deeply rutted track, it cuts across several tr...
Learn more about Crouch Mesa

This loop starts from an oil well access road and enters the desert terrain on a mid-width trail ideal for 60" SXSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes. Going counterclockwise from the south, it goes out onto a ridgeline on the soft clay dirt hills in this badlands-type terrain. The ridgeline has a lot of whoops....
Learn more about CMT East Loop

This is a mid-width trail ideal for 60" SXSs, ATVs, and dirt bikes that goes through a badlands-type desert terrain between Aztec and Bloomfield, New Mexico. It goes on a ridgeline on the soft clay dirt hills, overlooking the valley below. Watch out for the barbed wire fence that parallels the trail...
Learn more about Bloomfield SXS

This trail is tight and twisty with many surprises over hidden hillcrests. Take it slow and easy or you might lose a mirror. Recommended travel direction of east to west on this trail will help minimize any potential head-ons with other SXSs or ATVs. This is one of the approved cross-over trails for...
Learn more about SXS/ATV Test Your Skills Trail