Dirt Bike Trails
Near Westwood, California

This is a great, easy-to-moderate trail during the summer that just about any capable 4WD vehicle can enjoy. The route crosses Goodrich Creek and the adjacent historic flume, offering beautiful scenery and several great spots to stop and take in the views. Be aware that this trail is highly seasona...
Learn more about Gator's Flume Run

This is mostly a gravel trail through a previously burned section of the forest. There's also a campground called Soldier Meadows Campground that was closed at the time of mapping the trail in early June. It's not clear if there's a time it will open. There's a nice creek that runs along a section o...
Learn more about Coyote (Collins 500) - FS 28N36

Willow Lake Road takes you to Willow Lake Campground where there are opportunities for fishing, hiking, hot springs, geysers and wildlife viewing. The road in is doable in any high clearance vehicle. When approaching the campground there are ruts and high rocks. The campground has a vault toilet.
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Indian Falls Ridge is a fun and moderately easy trail on the north end of the Mount Hough Trail system, which is mostly fast and flowy, with a few more technical sections, and great views. The west end starts in a burn area on an easy path, with minor embedded rock surfaces. It starts to ascend as i...
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This is a really scenic and fun trail option in the Mount Hough trail system. It has several big rock features that make it one of the harder trails in the area. It makes a 2.8-mile loop off of Indian Falls Ridge. Going clockwise, it starts in a burn area on a wide path, meandering through the burnt...
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This is a fun singletrack accessed from the west side of the trail system that goes through dry and grassy terrain. The trailhead is on the corner of a switchback on 25N14 road, and it starts by going over a bunch of loose rock for the first couple turns of the trail as it gradually switchbacks up t...
Learn more about Lower Indian Falls Ridge

This is one of only a few ATV options in the Mount Hough Trail System. It starts near the Mount Hough Trailhead on the north end at a marked entrance, and descends down several wide and gradual switchbacks. The trail is narrow and primitive, with not many tracks, and it doesn’t look very ridden by A...
Learn more about 10M29

Mount Hough is the longest trail in the trail system, at 11 miles long, and is popular with downhill mountain bikers as it is a fun and flowy descent, dropping almost 4,000 feet in elevation gain from north to south. It’s a pretty gradual descent, with big banked corners, wide switchbacks, and mild ...
Learn more about Mount Hough

This route takes you through mostly wide gravel roads. There is a lot of moon dust/thick powder near the town of Westwood. You will be traveling through one of the largest burn scars in California, which was left by the Dixie Fire in 2021. A lot of the timber is still standing.
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The Taylor Lake/Lucky S Mine/Kettle Rock Lookout Loop is a scenic, moderately challenging 18.9-mile adventure in the Plumas National Forest that is perfect for four-wheel-drive vehicles, OHVs, and SxSs looking to combine historic exploration with high-elevation vistas. Offering a technical rating of...
Learn more about Taylor Lake/Lucky S Mine/Kettle Rock Lookout Loop

The upper 4.6 miles of Acorn Grotto are slightly easier than the Lower Acorn Grotto segment, as it doesn’t have as much exposure. The south end starts as a shelfy trail curving along the edge of the hillside, through a burn area. The trail was clear of logs, but there will always be potential for do...
Learn more about Upper Acorn Grotto

Keddie is a 2-mile-long singletrack on the west side of the Mount Hough Trail System that is less trafficked and more primitive. It starts on the east end at an intersection with Acorn Grotto, then crosses the road, and goes along an old shelf road. The shelf has overgrown grass and will likely have...
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This is a short trail that connects Kings Crossing to the 4x4 road 10M52. It drops down from Kings Crossing with a few really wide and smooth switchbacks. It weaves through the pine trees with some tight turns and a few embedded rock surfaces and boulders lining the trail. The trail is pretty narrow...
Learn more about QTC

This is a 1-mile connecting piece of trail between the upper and lower segments of the Acorn Grotto Trail. This segment is easy, as it climbs up a hillside on a wide smooth path for the first half of the route, then descends back down. It’s a little bit shelfy as it hugs the hillside, but it does no...
Learn more about Acorn Connector

This is one of only a few ATV trails in the Mount Hough Trail System. It’s primitive and overgrown, mostly following the path of an old forest road. It climbs up a hillside next to a ravine, with grass in the trail, and big waterbars. It goes through a very dry and sparse pine forest, and will have ...
Learn more about Cashman Ridge

The trail is wide with nice gravel. The entire route has road signs, so you can't really get lost. Up by the actual lake, the gravel road gets steep, but some pavement has been put in for the steep section. The route ends at Crater Lake, which is also a campground.
Learn more about Crater Lake

The east end of this easy connector trail starts at the road intersection of 10M25 and 25N10Y, and it goes west to 403. There’s a small additional piece of trail that connects to the Mount Hough Trail on the west side of 403. From the east end, it weaves around a rock outcropping, then passes the in...
Learn more about Kings Crossing

This trail does go farther than it's mapped, but there was a very large tree that fell on the trail that looks like it's been there for a little bit, with the amount of dirt/ground that has grown around the sides of it. This is the eastern section of the trail. The trail did have some small washes a...
Learn more about Deer Creek South - FS 28N49

The north end of Upper Tollgate drops off of the Mount Hough trail, and it descends through a scenic and rocky section of forest. This segment of the trail has been built up with lots of dirt jumps and rock features by the mountain bikers, making it a fun downhill descent. The majority of the rock f...
Learn more about Upper Tollgate

The lower 4.3 miles of Tollgate are fun and technical. The east entrance starts off of Mount Hough Trail, and immediately crosses Tollgate Creek, which was shallow with a few embedded rocks. This was one of the only creeks with running water in the whole trail system in late summer as it is a really...
Learn more about Lower Tollgate

This is a great, easy-to-moderate trail during the summer that just about any capable 4WD vehicle can enjoy. The route crosses Goodrich Creek and the adjacent historic flume, offering beautiful scenery and several great spots to stop and take in the views. Be aware that this trail is highly seasona...
Learn more about Gator's Flume Run

This is mostly a gravel trail through a previously burned section of the forest. There's also a campground called Soldier Meadows Campground that was closed at the time of mapping the trail in early June. It's not clear if there's a time it will open. There's a nice creek that runs along a section o...
Learn more about Coyote (Collins 500) - FS 28N36

Willow Lake Road takes you to Willow Lake Campground where there are opportunities for fishing, hiking, hot springs, geysers and wildlife viewing. The road in is doable in any high clearance vehicle. When approaching the campground there are ruts and high rocks. The campground has a vault toilet.
Learn more about Willow Lake Road 29N14

This is one of only a few ATV options in the Mount Hough Trail System. It starts near the Mount Hough Trailhead on the north end at a marked entrance, and descends down several wide and gradual switchbacks. The trail is narrow and primitive, with not many tracks, and it doesn’t look very ridden by A...
Learn more about 10M29

This is a great, easy-to-moderate trail during the summer that just about any capable 4WD vehicle can enjoy. The route crosses Goodrich Creek and the adjacent historic flume, offering beautiful scenery and several great spots to stop and take in the views. Be aware that this trail is highly seasona...
Learn more about Gator's Flume Run

This is mostly a gravel trail through a previously burned section of the forest. There's also a campground called Soldier Meadows Campground that was closed at the time of mapping the trail in early June. It's not clear if there's a time it will open. There's a nice creek that runs along a section o...
Learn more about Coyote (Collins 500) - FS 28N36

Willow Lake Road takes you to Willow Lake Campground where there are opportunities for fishing, hiking, hot springs, geysers and wildlife viewing. The road in is doable in any high clearance vehicle. When approaching the campground there are ruts and high rocks. The campground has a vault toilet.
Learn more about Willow Lake Road 29N14

This route takes you through mostly wide gravel roads. There is a lot of moon dust/thick powder near the town of Westwood. You will be traveling through one of the largest burn scars in California, which was left by the Dixie Fire in 2021. A lot of the timber is still standing.
Learn more about Buffalo Chips