Off-Road Trails Near Silverthorne, Colorado

Tenderfoot Mountain is a 6-mile-long easy singletrack. The north end starts on County Road 51. It starts off as a narrow dirt trail at a pinch point. Much of the trail is fast and flowy, through tall skinny aspen trees, with wide sweeping and banked corners, and is very gradual and smooth. There are...
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This is an ATV or dirt bike trail that follows I-70 from the town of Dillon to the Eisenhower Tunnel. You follow the creek most of the time, which is in the shadow of I-70. It's mostly an easy road with some sand, washouts, a few shallow creeks, and some small but steep hills. This passes through th...
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Outer Wide Open makes a loop off of Tenderfoot Mountain Trail with BB Trail. It's a newly constructed single track in the trail system, and is very similar in style and difficulty to the rest of the trails in the area. It curves through the pine trees, with gradual switchbacks, big wide turns throug...
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BB is a newly constructed dirt bike trail in the Tenderfoot Mountain Trail System. It starts at an overlook above Dillon Reservoir at the intersection with Outer Wide Open. It climbs up to Tenderfoot Mountain Trail through a series of gradual switchbacks and banked corners. From west to east, the tr...
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The south end of Upper Wide Open starts along a fence and goes through a pinch point, then enters a forest of tall skinny lodgepole pine trees and the ground is full of downed skinny logs. It doubles back on big sweeping hairpin turns several times as it climbs up the mountainside. The trail is smoo...
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Roost is an easy trail in the Tenderfoot Mountain Trail System. The west side of Roost starts at the intersection with Tenderfoot Mountain Trail, and zig zags across the mountain until it intersects with Lucky, then zig zags up to another section of Tenderfoot Mountain Trail. It's a fast and flowy t...
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Pile Driver is a very easy single track through the Tenderfoot Mountain Recreation Area near Silverthorne, Colorado. The west end starts at the end of the Tenderfoot Mountain Trail, and it traverses across the hillside through tall skinny lodgepole pine trees, aspen trees, and open hillsides. The tr...
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Lucky is a newer trail in the Tenderfoot Mountain Trail System. It starts at the intersection with Upper Wide Open and rides north to Roost. It's a very fast trail, being pretty wide through the pine trees, with light curves over smooth terrain. There are a couple of embedded rocks or roots here and...
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This trail descends through a series of big, wide, sweeping switchbacks from the summit of Tenderfoot Mountain. The trail is extensive at the top, like a two-track, but narrows slightly as it enters the trees. It loses 1,300 feet of elevation over 2.6 miles. It continues as a wide trail snaking thro...
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Monkey Butt keeps going north after it starts at the intersection with Wide Open, and is similar difficulty to Wide Open. It keeps zig-zagging through the forest on a gradual and smooth trail, going through more of the cleared forest covered in small downed logs. There aren't any of the logs over th...
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The south end of Wide Open starts on Frey Gulch Road and it enters the aspen trees and starts climbing up the hillside. It climbs up a series of 10 gradual switchbacks that casually curve through the pine trees and cross the Tenderfoot Mountain Trail. It does one more zig-zag on the north side of Te...
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DeathHair is a newly constructed easy single track that makes a loop off of the Powerhair Trail in the Tenderfoot Mountain Trail System. It zig zags through the forest for 1.6 miles, mostly descending for the first mile with some steep spots when going counterclockwise, and then gradually climbing b...
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Miners Creek Road is a convenient off-road trail right on the outskirts of Frisco, Colorado, making it an easy and rewarding exploration while visiting the area. The route begins as a paved multi-use path in town and gradually transitions into a rugged backcountry road as it climbs into the White Ri...
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This trail traverses the mountain slope opposite the Keystone Ski Area, so it provides excellent views of the ski area. Frey Gulch and the nearby Tenderfoot Mountain are fairly popular dirt bike riding areas, as most of the trails here are single tracks. It is a seasonal area for all motorized vehic...
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This short single track enters the pine forest at the pinch point and climbs up for a mile, with a few steep spots. It's mostly a fast dirt trail over rolling hills, with some fast banked corners. t winds up through the trees with several big hairpin turns. His trail is smooth and easy, with no rock...
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South Fork Road (FS 142.1) begins just past the tunnels beneath the Henderson Mill conveyor at the southern end of Williams Fork Road (CR 30/FR 138). This narrow, single-lane forest road winds south along the South Fork of the Williams Fork River and offers a quieter, more remote experience. Dispers...
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This new single-track trail in the Tenderfoot Mountain motorized trail system loops off Powerline and Frey Gulch Road. It's similar to many of the fast and flowy trails through this trail system, as it winds through the pine trees. It side-hills al ng the edge of the mountainside on a narrow dirt tr...
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This is a short 1 mile long connector trail, that connects 7 of 9 to the new Powerhair single track. It goes through a clearing with short pine trees, on a smooth and easy dirt trail that winds through the trees and is generally fast and flowy. The south end zig-zags down the mountainside through a ...
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This single track starts on a wide track through extensive grassy meadows and curves through the lodgepole pine tree forest on a smooth, easy trail. It cuts across the mountainsides and climbs up the mountain with a few big, wide corners. The trail has more rocks and roots than the other trails in t...
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The Keystone Gulch Road follows the boundary of the Keystone Ski Area at the beginning and eventually enters the ski area in the North Peak area. The open dates for all vehicles on this trail are 6/21 through 11/22. The lower gate for this road remains closed to motorized access later on in the sea...
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This is an ATV or dirt bike trail that follows I-70 from the town of Dillon to the Eisenhower Tunnel. You follow the creek most of the time, which is in the shadow of I-70. It's mostly an easy road with some sand, washouts, a few shallow creeks, and some small but steep hills. This passes through th...
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This trail descends through a series of big, wide, sweeping switchbacks from the summit of Tenderfoot Mountain. The trail is extensive at the top, like a two-track, but narrows slightly as it enters the trees. It loses 1,300 feet of elevation over 2.6 miles. It continues as a wide trail snaking thro...
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This trail traverses the mountain slope opposite the Keystone Ski Area, so it provides excellent views of the ski area. Frey Gulch and the nearby Tenderfoot Mountain are fairly popular dirt bike riding areas, as most of the trails here are single tracks. It is a seasonal area for all motorized vehic...
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South Fork Road (FS 142.1) begins just past the tunnels beneath the Henderson Mill conveyor at the southern end of Williams Fork Road (CR 30/FR 138). This narrow, single-lane forest road winds south along the South Fork of the Williams Fork River and offers a quieter, more remote experience. Dispers...
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This trail traverses the mountain slope opposite the Keystone Ski Area, so it provides excellent views of the ski area. Frey Gulch and the nearby Tenderfoot Mountain are fairly popular dirt bike riding areas, as most of the trails here are single tracks. It is a seasonal area for all motorized vehic...
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South Fork Road (FS 142.1) begins just past the tunnels beneath the Henderson Mill conveyor at the southern end of Williams Fork Road (CR 30/FR 138). This narrow, single-lane forest road winds south along the South Fork of the Williams Fork River and offers a quieter, more remote experience. Dispers...
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The Keystone Gulch Road follows the boundary of the Keystone Ski Area at the beginning and eventually enters the ski area in the North Peak area. The open dates for all vehicles on this trail are 6/21 through 11/22. The lower gate for this road remains closed to motorized access later on in the sea...
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Summit Gulch (GH-74) is a scenic, narrow, rocky trail that is frequented by off-highway vehicles such as dirt bikes and SxSs in Breckenridge, Colorado. The trail has several rollers that are exciting to drive over on dirt bikes and short-wheel-base vehicles. This may not be suitable for longer wheel...
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