Richey Creek ATV Trail

Total Miles
6.5

Elevation

3,252.93 ft

Duration

0.5 Hours

Technical Rating

3

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall

Trail Overview

Richey Creek is a wide two-track through pine trees, with small loose rocks in the trail. It has easy curves as it follows the edge of the mountain, with lots of branches and cut logs sticking out from the trees that you need to watch out for. It crosses a little muddy section, and goes pretty straight and flat, so you can get going fast. It's shelfier as it gets higher up, then goes in and out of a burn area. The trail enters a burn area and gets a tad bit rockier as it climbs up the side of the mountain. When it leaves the burn area, it gets a bit tighter in the pine trees, windier with some switchbacks and a bit of embedded roots and loose rocks. It becomes a shelf road along the edge of the mountain. The trail goes back into the burn area and the trail in this section is more rutted. After 6.6 miles, the trail ends at a pinch point in the fence along a dirt road. This trial is open 6/16 - 11/14 to motorized use.

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Richey Creek ATV Trail
Richey Creek ATV Trail

Difficulty

This is an easy ATV trail that has features such as small ruts, small loose rocks in the trail, gradual switchbacks, and some tighter sections through the bushes.

Technical Rating

3

Status Reports

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Access Description

There are a couple 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 these closures.

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