Off-Road Trails
Near Conner, Montana

Robins Gulch is a very easy road. The road is very smooth, with no ruts, no washboards, and no potholes. There is room to pass oncoming vehicles in many places. For the most part, this road is one full-size vehicle wide, but there's plenty of room on the edges to pass if needed. You can cruise on th...
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Burnt Ridge Trail is a short trail that can confuse what vehicles are allowed on it. OnX shows this trail is open to high clearance 4x4, ATV, and Dirtbike. However, when you reach the beginning of the trail splitting off Hart Bench Loop Connector Trail, you will find dirt piled up on both edges of t...
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Hart Bench Loop Connector is a nice trail that connects Trapper Chaffin to Hart Bench Loop. The trail is one full-size vehicle wide the entire way with room to pass in a reasonable amount of spots. The beginning and the end of this trail are gradual but there are steady inclines/declines for nearly ...
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Hart Bench Loop is a really fun and easy trail. This trail has lots to look at along the way. There are great views of the surrounding mountains, the valley, and the houses down below. The trail is mostly sand with short stretches of dirt. On the south end of the trail, there are a fair amount of ru...
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Fish Hook is a fun and fairly short trail with some great views. This trail is mostly dirt but it does start as gravel. From the start, you will head up in elevation at a good rate for half of the trail. After that, you will head directly west and follow a mountain ridge. You will still be going up ...
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An easy narrow trail that leads to the Trapper Creek Trailhead. There is lots of fishing access along the way and many dispersed campsites. Lots of them are tucked nicely off the main trail. There are plenty of pullouts for oncoming traffic, and the trailhead features a very large campsite with a ho...
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Spoon Creek is a neat little trail just south of Darby, Montana. It starts just off West Fork Road, barely off of Highway 93. The trail starts out in a residential area and the trail is very wide with smooth gravel. After about a mile, you will get out of private land and into Bitterroot National Fo...
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Timber trail is an easy trail with sections of small ruts and some rocks that are pretty small. Other than that, the surface is mostly a fine gravel/sandy surface. The beginning of the trail is one full-size vehicle wide and if you met another vehicle on this section, you shouldn't have too much tro...
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A narrow and rocky offshoot. A muddy section near the beginning could be impassable when wet. Lots of ruts and rocks with narrow sections could cause tire damage. The trail doesn't really go anywhere;it just offers a few more dispersed camping spots. No winter maintenance or cellular service
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Trapper-Chaffin trail is a pretty easy trail to drive with any 4x4 vehicle. On the north end of the trail, it starts with a little patch of lightly aggressive potholes. Those are short-lived, however, and you will cross a bridge and then a cattle guard shortly after. After that cattle guard, the tra...
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Chaffin Creek Hart Gulch is another trail in the Trapper Chaffin area, and it is unclear what vehicles are allowed on it. At the beginning of the trail, a sign says the trail is open to all vehicles from June to October. OnX will also show that this trail is open to high clearance 4x4s, ATVs, and di...
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This is an easy road into the mountains with many offshoots. The lower section ends at a locked gate for private property. The middle section is seasonally closed. There were few dispersed spots to camp along the way, but may be higher up the trail with access during the summer months. Easy trail wi...
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A scenic loop drive along the hillside through a nicely thinned forest. Plenty of hiking trails crisscross the hillside, and there were two herds of Elk off in the trees. The easy graded trail has many pullouts for oncoming traffic and did not seem to have any dispersed camping. May not have winter ...
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Upper Pierce Creek Trail is a bumpy but easy trail that climbs steadily to the Baker Lake hiking trail. The beginning has quite a few washboards, and although less frequent further up, washboards continue all the way to the end. There are some potholes along the way, though not in large numbers. The...
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Huckleberry Sale is a short trail that jumps off of Trapper Chaffin Trail. Like other trails in this area, it starts wide enough for a full-size vehicle and has spots wide enough to pass other vehicles. However, by the end of the trail, it is pretty much too narrow for a full-size vehicle. If you do...
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Pierce Creek is a short trail up the West Fork of the Bitterroot Valley. This trail is an easy ride or drive in any vehicle as long as the snow is melted. The trail is about one full-size vehicle wide for the most part, but there are plenty of areas to pass oncoming vehicles. There are nearly zero p...
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Doran Point Trail is the natural continuation of the Robins Gulch Trail, which will take you to the Rye Creek staging area just off Rye Creek Road. Overall, this is a lower-than-average elevation trail for this area, so earlier-season rides may be possible, as it is open from December 1st until Octo...
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Upper Spoon Creek is a good little trail to do while you are riding or driving Spoon Creek. It splits off of Spoon Creek in a very obvious spot right near a switchback. This trail starts narrow and remains narrow the whole way. Passing another full-size vehicle, in a full-size vehicle, may be very d...
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Piquet Creek Part 1 starts just off the highway with a bridge that marks the beginning of the trail. The first four miles are very smooth with occasional small potholes and almost no washboards or rocks. The trail is wide enough for two full-size vehicles, and aside from some mild turns, you can cru...
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Warm Springs Laird Starts immediately off of Highway 93 near the Rocky Knob Restaurant. The first mile of this trail goes through a residential area before you reach national forest land. In this first mile, there are multiple speed limit signs of 15 mph put up by the residents, so please go slow he...
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Robins Gulch is a very easy road. The road is very smooth, with no ruts, no washboards, and no potholes. There is room to pass oncoming vehicles in many places. For the most part, this road is one full-size vehicle wide, but there's plenty of room on the edges to pass if needed. You can cruise on th...
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Burnt Ridge Trail is a short trail that can confuse what vehicles are allowed on it. OnX shows this trail is open to high clearance 4x4, ATV, and Dirtbike. However, when you reach the beginning of the trail splitting off Hart Bench Loop Connector Trail, you will find dirt piled up on both edges of t...
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Hart Bench Loop Connector is a nice trail that connects Trapper Chaffin to Hart Bench Loop. The trail is one full-size vehicle wide the entire way with room to pass in a reasonable amount of spots. The beginning and the end of this trail are gradual but there are steady inclines/declines for nearly ...
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Hart Bench Loop is a really fun and easy trail. This trail has lots to look at along the way. There are great views of the surrounding mountains, the valley, and the houses down below. The trail is mostly sand with short stretches of dirt. On the south end of the trail, there are a fair amount of ru...
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Robins Gulch is a very easy road. The road is very smooth, with no ruts, no washboards, and no potholes. There is room to pass oncoming vehicles in many places. For the most part, this road is one full-size vehicle wide, but there's plenty of room on the edges to pass if needed. You can cruise on th...
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Hart Bench Loop Connector is a nice trail that connects Trapper Chaffin to Hart Bench Loop. The trail is one full-size vehicle wide the entire way with room to pass in a reasonable amount of spots. The beginning and the end of this trail are gradual but there are steady inclines/declines for nearly ...
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Hart Bench Loop is a really fun and easy trail. This trail has lots to look at along the way. There are great views of the surrounding mountains, the valley, and the houses down below. The trail is mostly sand with short stretches of dirt. On the south end of the trail, there are a fair amount of ru...
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Fish Hook is a fun and fairly short trail with some great views. This trail is mostly dirt but it does start as gravel. From the start, you will head up in elevation at a good rate for half of the trail. After that, you will head directly west and follow a mountain ridge. You will still be going up ...
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