Off-Road Trails in Manitoba

The trail is an old logging road once the only roadway to the beaches. Today, you can explore the trail in summer by truck, horseback, mountain bike, or ATV. Logging and gravel trucks still use part of the trail near the northern end. The south trailhead is at Hwy 304 at Stead Road. The north trailh...
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Lake Audy Road is an easy gravel trail in Riding Mountain National Park that takes you through rolling forest and prairie landscapes to one of the park's highlights -- the Lake Audy Bison Enclosure. Here, you can drive through a massive fenced pasture and get up-close views of a free-roaming bison h...
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This is Manitoba's most popular and challenging rock crawling trail, located near Rennie in the rugged Whiteshell Provincial Forest. Known for the exposed granite bedrock, tight technical lines, mud, and water, this has become a proving ground for local off-roading enthusiasts. High-clearance, well-...
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Rolling River Road is a scenic, remote trail cutting through the south end of Riding Mountain National Park. Originally built as a firebreak, this one-vehicle-wide gravel road winds through dense boreal forest, open meadows, and marsh. The trail has gentle elevation changes and several long, open st...
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This short 5-mile trail runs alongside Smith Creek as it connects with the Assiniboine River, just outside Russell, Manitoba (near the Saskatchewan border). The route follows an old power/telephone line corridor, cutting through open prairie and wooded sections. The trail roughly parallels a small r...
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A short dirt/mud trail from the gravel road leads to Grasse Lake, a quiet, shallow wetland nestled within the valley, attracting a rich variety of waterfowl, shorebirds, and other wildlife. The trail was mapped during an unusually dry time. The trail is not passable when wet, as it gets too muddy. Q...
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This low-maintenance gravel dry-weather road route through Manitoba's Pembina Valley Wildlife Management Area offers a peaceful, scenic drive through one of southern Manitoba's picturesque natural landscapes. The road meanders through a mix of open prairie, dense aspen bluffs, and winding valley ter...
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Snow Valley Road is a scenic, historic rural route running through the wooded valley west of Roseisle, Manitoba. This gravel backroad partially follows the path of an early 1900s rail line built by the Canadian Northern Railway to service a cement plant deep in the valley. Today, it offers a quiet a...
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The trail follows the remnants of a century-old, decommissioned rail line through Manitoba's secluded Babcock Valley. Initially built in 1905 by the Canadian Northern Railway to service a now-abandoned cement factory, the trail winds alongside Roseisle Creek, offering scenic views and creek crossing...
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Forestry Road 31 / Fire Guard Road 31 is an easy forest access road in Manitoba’s Sandilands Provincial Forest near Woodridge. The route runs north from the Woodridge area toward Highway 1 through sandy pine forest and managed forestry land. This is primarily a forestry/fire-guard road, not a techni...
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Beaver Creek Road is a remote former forestry road extending into the boreal wilderness northeast of Manigotagan and Hollow Water. Originally developed for timber harvesting and resource access, the route now varies greatly in condition, with sections that may be overgrown or washed out. The road pa...
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The Loon Straits Access Road is an all-season gravel route branching west from Rice River Road and continuing to the remote lakeside community of Loon Straits on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg. The drive passes through boreal forest, wetlands and exposed Canadian Shield terrain before reaching t...
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PR 314 is a remote, maintained gravel road running north through the heart of Nopiming Provincial Park. The route winds through rugged Canadian Shield terrain, passing exposed granite, boreal forest, wetlands, rivers, and numerous lakes. Along the way, it provides access to Black Lake, Tooth Lake, B...
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Lowland Road is a quiet rural gravel route west of Lac du Bonnet that winds through a mix of farmland, wetlands, old homesteads, and wooded sections of aspen and mixed forest. The road is generally easy in dry conditions, but drivers may encounter washboard, potholes, loose gravel, muddy shoulders, ...
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Brightstone offers a network of quiet gravel roads, sandy resource routes, old forestry tracks, and winter trail corridors through the rolling Brightstone Sand Hills Provincial Forest northwest of Lac du Bonnet. The terrain is generally easier than the rocky trails found farther east in Manitoba’s ...
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Forestry Road 18 / Fire Guard Road 18 is an easy forest access road in Manitoba’s Sandilands Provincial Forest near Woodridge. The route runs through sandy pine forest and managed forestry land. This is primarily a forestry/fire-guard road. In dry conditions, it is generally an easy drive for a sto...
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Nopiming - MB 315 Provincial Road PR-315 is a scenic backcountry highway running east from PR 313 near Lac du Bonnet through the southern portion of Nopiming Provincial Park to the Ontario boundary. The route begins as pavement through cottage country before changing to maintained gravel east of th...
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MB-304 from Manigotagan to Long Lake is a remote, scenic gravel route through Manitoba’s eastern Canadian Shield. The road passes through dense boreal forest, exposed rock, wetlands, and lake country as it travels toward the northern edge of Nopiming Provincial Park and the Bissett area. This is a ...
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This remote all-season gravel road connects Bloodvein with the isolated community of Berens River on the eastern side of Lake Winnipeg. The route travels through undeveloped boreal forest, wetlands and exposed Canadian Shield terrain. It was constructed as a permanent transportation route and includ...
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The trail is an old logging road once the only roadway to the beaches. Today, you can explore the trail in summer by truck, horseback, mountain bike, or ATV. Logging and gravel trucks still use part of the trail near the northern end. The south trailhead is at Hwy 304 at Stead Road. The north trailh...
Learn more about North Star Trail

This is Manitoba's most popular and challenging rock crawling trail, located near Rennie in the rugged Whiteshell Provincial Forest. Known for the exposed granite bedrock, tight technical lines, mud, and water, this has become a proving ground for local off-roading enthusiasts. High-clearance, well-...
Learn more about Pit Lake

This short 5-mile trail runs alongside Smith Creek as it connects with the Assiniboine River, just outside Russell, Manitoba (near the Saskatchewan border). The route follows an old power/telephone line corridor, cutting through open prairie and wooded sections. The trail roughly parallels a small r...
Learn more about Smith Creek

A short dirt/mud trail from the gravel road leads to Grasse Lake, a quiet, shallow wetland nestled within the valley, attracting a rich variety of waterfowl, shorebirds, and other wildlife. The trail was mapped during an unusually dry time. The trail is not passable when wet, as it gets too muddy. Q...
Learn more about Grasse Lake

The trail is an old logging road once the only roadway to the beaches. Today, you can explore the trail in summer by truck, horseback, mountain bike, or ATV. Logging and gravel trucks still use part of the trail near the northern end. The south trailhead is at Hwy 304 at Stead Road. The north trailh...
Learn more about North Star Trail

This is Manitoba's most popular and challenging rock crawling trail, located near Rennie in the rugged Whiteshell Provincial Forest. Known for the exposed granite bedrock, tight technical lines, mud, and water, this has become a proving ground for local off-roading enthusiasts. High-clearance, well-...
Learn more about Pit Lake

This short 5-mile trail runs alongside Smith Creek as it connects with the Assiniboine River, just outside Russell, Manitoba (near the Saskatchewan border). The route follows an old power/telephone line corridor, cutting through open prairie and wooded sections. The trail roughly parallels a small r...
Learn more about Smith Creek

A short dirt/mud trail from the gravel road leads to Grasse Lake, a quiet, shallow wetland nestled within the valley, attracting a rich variety of waterfowl, shorebirds, and other wildlife. The trail was mapped during an unusually dry time. The trail is not passable when wet, as it gets too muddy. Q...
Learn more about Grasse Lake