No See Um ATV Trail

Total Miles
5.7

Elevation

3,031.94 ft

Duration

0.75 Hours

Technical Rating

3

Easy

Best Time

Summer, Fall

Trail Overview

This is a 5.5-mile-long ATV trail through the Arapahoe National Forest. The west end starts out behind a gate off of Keyser Ridge Road. It looks like an old Jeep road that has been repurposed into an ATV Trail. It goes straight and flat for a long while through pine trees along the edge of a hillside on a really wide path. The trail is pretty smooth, with a bit of loose rock, and overgrown grass, but you can get going fast because there are no obstacles in the way. It crosses a little wooden bridge, then starts to get more steep as it starts climbing the hillside with several steeper switchbacks. The switchbacks are pretty wide and smooth, but one has a big rut on the inside corner, and the rut continues as it starts climbing really steeply straight up. It gets narrower through the trees as it climbs, with tree branches whacking you on either side. Watch out for logs sticking out behind the trees. The trail makes a loop back onto Keyser Ridge Road, which you can take east to connect to the Richey Creek ATV trail to continue your ride. This trial is open from 6/16 - 11/14 for motorized use.

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No See Um ATV Trail
No See Um ATV Trail

Difficulty

This is an easy ATV trail because it doesn't have any big ledges or obstacles, but it does have pretty steep climbing sections that get rutted out as it climbs up. With a bit of experience and proper tire placement, ATVs and dirt bikes shouldn't have any issues completing this trail.

Technical Rating

3

Status Reports

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Access Description

There are a couple of small dirt parking lots off of Williams Fork Road that can be used as staging areas. They are the Horseshoe Snowmobile Parking, which is also dispersed camping, and a small dirt lot after the Horseshoe Campground. This is one of two ATV trails in the area, because as of October 2024, the ATV trails Keyser Ridge Loop and Elk Wallow, as well as Kinney Creek Road and Whistler Creek Road, were closed due to hazards in the burn area, and the closure hasn't been updated since 2021. You'll need to plan your route accordingly with that closure.

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