Off-Road Trails in Idaho

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Learn more about Horse Ridge Trail
Horse Ridge Trail

Horse Ridge Trail

Most of this trail is on a paved twisty road leading up into the Panhandle National Forest. The pavement ends at the top of the hill and spiderwebs into several dirt trails. Horse Ridge Trail…
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Total Miles
7.4
Tech Rating
1Easy
Best Time
Summer, Fall
Learn more about Horseshoe to Harrington #5212
Horseshoe to Harrington #5212

Horseshoe to Harrington #5212

Horseshoe to Harrington #5212 is a moderate 1.1-mile ATV trail that gains 600 feet of elevation as it climbs south from a starting point near a couple of dispersed campsites off Slug Creek Road. The…
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Total Miles
1.2
Tech Rating
4Moderate
Best Time
Summer, Fall
Learn more about Hot Shot
Hot Shot

Hot Shot

Hot Shot is a very windy and twisty single track with some fun rock ledges. It's mostly a very narrow trail through sage brush rolling hills, with a couple sections of slab rock boulders and…
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Total Miles
2.9
Tech Rating
4Moderate
Best Time
Winter, Fall, Summer, Spring
Learn more about Houtz Canyon
Houtz Canyon

Houtz Canyon

Houtz Canyon from the Rockland side is a great off-road adventure for all vehicles, but it can become narrow due to brush. The BLM provides plenty of parking at the start of the trail. The…
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Total Miles
15.2
Tech Rating
2Easy
Best Time
Summer
Learn more about Howard's Trail
Howard's Trail

Howard's Trail

Howard's Trail is a top-tier single track in the Greenhorn Trail System near Ketchum Idaho that has incredible mountain views. Most of the route is a really narrow trail that side-hills across an exposed grassy…
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Total Miles
3.6
Tech Rating
5Moderate
Best Time
Fall, Summer, Spring
Learn more about Howe Peak Ridge
Howe Peak Ridge

Howe Peak Ridge

The Howe Peak Ridge Trail is an out and back trail in Challis National Forest in Idaho. This trail offers incredible views from the peak while next to the two radio towers. There's many campsites…
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Total Miles
7.1
Tech Rating
4Moderate
Best Time
Fall, Summer, Spring
Learn more about Hudlow
Hudlow

Hudlow

This mostly easy trail runs from the ridgeline to the valley or visa-versa. Near the lower section is a well-constructed warming hut for snowmobile season, complete with a pit toilet and a vast valley with…
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Total Miles
6.4
Tech Rating
2Easy
Best Time
Fall, Summer, Spring
Learn more about Hughes Creek
Hughes Creek

Hughes Creek

Hughes Creek is almost a 4-mile-long single track through the Salmon National Forest that connects a Forest Service road to Ax Park single track. It's a fast and narrow single track through a grassy forest…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
4Moderate
Best Time
Spring, Summer, Fall
Learn more about Idaho Centennial to Clover Three
Idaho Centennial to Clover Three

Idaho Centennial to Clover Three

This section connects the Idaho Centennial Trail to Clover Three Trail. With all the trails out here that no longer exist, it's a surefire way to end up at the access to the Bruneau Viewpoint…
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Total Miles
8.0
Tech Rating
2Easy
Best Time
Summer, Spring, Fall
Learn more about Idaho Centennial to Echo Trail
Idaho Centennial to Echo Trail

Idaho Centennial to Echo Trail

This section of trail follows along the cliff side briefly from the Bruneau lookout point with informational kiosks and a pit toilet. Almost immediately is a spur for The overlook rec site for great camping…
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Total Miles
4.0
Tech Rating
3Easy
Best Time
Spring, Summer, Fall
Learn more about Idaho Centennial Trail
Idaho Centennial Trail

Idaho Centennial Trail

This trail is difficult to follow until one realizes that occasionally there are white markers indicating the direction of the trail. This is an excellent section for most of the southern area of it. Nice…
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Total Miles
8.9
Tech Rating
2Easy
Best Time
Summer, Spring, Fall
Learn more about Idaho Centennial Trail 7
Idaho Centennial Trail 7

Idaho Centennial Trail 7

This scenic section of trail is one of the prettiest traveled. It offers some incredible scenery--rolling hills with fields of dried fluffy grass that blows in the wind. There are some interesting rock formations too.…
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Total Miles
4.5
Tech Rating
3Easy
Best Time
Summer, Spring, Fall
Learn more about Idaho City to Horseshoe Bend Road
Idaho City to Horseshoe Bend Road

Idaho City to Horseshoe Bend Road

This 30.1-mile point-to-point road crosses over the Salmon River Mountains from Idaho City to Horseshoe Bend. This road gives access to hundreds of miles of off-roading, hiking, and mountain bike trails in the Boise National…
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Total Miles
29.5
Tech Rating
1Easy
Best Time
Spring, Summer, Fall
Learn more about Idaho Falls to Fall Creek Falls
Idaho Falls to Fall Creek Falls

Idaho Falls to Fall Creek Falls

This trail is an easy trail and a more scenic and fun route to Fall Creek Falls. Fall Creek Falls is a beautiful waterfall where Fall Creek meets the South Fork of the Snake River.…
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Total Miles
29.9
Tech Rating
1Easy
Best Time
Spring, Fall, Summer
Learn more about Idaho Falls to Wolverine Canyon
Idaho Falls to Wolverine Canyon

Idaho Falls to Wolverine Canyon

This route takes you from Idaho Falls up Bone Road, past the Bone Store, and up the Wolverine Canyon. It is a fun ride to take all year round for a Sunday drive or a…
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Total Miles
18.3
Tech Rating
1Easy
Best Time
Spring, Summer, Fall
Learn more about Idaho Trail Sampler
Idaho Trail Sampler

Idaho Trail Sampler

Rocky, loose shale single-track to begin with, then transitions to flowing fast trails. A small respite of double-track, with a challenging finish of yet more rocky single-track. Great trail to experience all the types of…
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Total Miles
20.0
Tech Rating
6Moderate
Best Time
Spring, Summer, Fall
Learn more about Imperial Gulch
Imperial Gulch

Imperial Gulch

Imperial Gulch is an epic top-tier single track for incredible views and a smooth fast and flowy trail through meadows full of wildflowers. There are only a couple of sections with some embedded small rocks…
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Total Miles
5.5
Tech Rating
3Easy
Best Time
Fall, Summer, Spring
Learn more about Independence Creek
Independence Creek

Independence Creek

This is one of the most beautiful trails in North Idaho, but not for the faint of heart. It is a remote, single-track trail that traverses a truly roadless area. Trailhead is roughly one hour…
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Total Miles
13.8
Tech Rating
6Moderate
Best Time
Summer
Learn more about Indian Creek - Cow Camp
Indian Creek - Cow Camp

Indian Creek - Cow Camp

This is the most easily runnable Public-Land only route from 10 Mile Pass / Indian Creek area to the Cow Camp area. It is all dirt starting from the Indian Creek trailhead off of 10-mile…
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Total Miles
12.6
Tech Rating
3Easy
Best Time
Summer, Fall, Spring
Learn more about Indian Head Canyon Road
Indian Head Canyon Road

Indian Head Canyon Road

The primary attraction to the Indian Head Canyon is the marvelous petroglyphs preserved in a cave in the canyon wall. The BLM and Forest Service have developed this site by fencing off the area and…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
2Easy
Best Time
Spring, Summer, Fall

ATV trails in Idaho

Learn more about Aspen Range - Middle Sulphur #5248
 Aspen Range - Middle Sulphur #5248

Aspen Range - Middle Sulphur #5248

Aspen Range - Middle Sulphur #5248 is an easy 1.9-mile-long ATV trail that starts near the Wood Canyon Motorized Trailhead and offers a smooth, gradual route through forest terrain. From the north end, the trail…
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Total Miles
1.9
Tech Rating
2Easy
Best Time
Summer, Fall
Learn more about Dry Fork - Meadow Springs #5226
 Dry Fork - Meadow Springs #5226

Dry Fork - Meadow Springs #5226

Dry Fork - Meadow Springs #5226 is a moderately easy ATV trail that acts as a short connector between Dry Fork Road #50130 and the junction with trails #5225 and #5232. Traveling eastward, the trail…
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Total Miles
0.4
Tech Rating
3Easy
Best Time
Summer, Fall
Learn more about South Foothill Road
 South Foothill Road

South Foothill Road

This cutover trail runs along the foothills of the mountains from Big Dry Canyon across to the water crossing at Birch Creek Campground. It may be wiser to go around the water crossing during times…
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Total Miles
8.2
Tech Rating
4Moderate
Best Time
Summer, Fall
Learn more about #5234
#5234

#5234

Trail #5234 is an easy 0.5-mile ATV spur that branches off the main Harrington Peak trail. The route is grassy and slightly overgrown in places, winding through the forest on a gradual path that follows…
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Total Miles
0.6
Tech Rating
3Easy
Best Time
Summer, Fall

UTV/side-by-side trails in Idaho

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 South Foothill Road

South Foothill Road

This cutover trail runs along the foothills of the mountains from Big Dry Canyon across to the water crossing at Birch Creek Campground. It may be wiser to go around the water crossing during times…
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Total Miles
8.2
Tech Rating
4Moderate
Best Time
Summer, Fall
Learn more about 21 To Nip & Tuck
21 To Nip & Tuck

21 To Nip & Tuck

This trail is accessible from the town of Upper Stanley to the popular Nip & Tuck trail with excellent views of the sawtooth mountain range and dispersed wild camping. Several other off-road trails can also…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
1Easy
Best Time
Fall, Summer, Spring
Learn more about 3 Sisters
3 Sisters

3 Sisters

This is an easy scenic route that can give you access to the 3 Sisters. The loop is very easy with any type of vehicle circling back to town on FS 297. There are great…
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Total Miles
5.5
Tech Rating
1Easy
Best Time
Spring, Summer, Fall
Learn more about 4th July - Copper Creek - 3097
4th July - Copper Creek - 3097

4th July - Copper Creek - 3097

This route starts out from the 4th of July Pass recreation parking lot and takes you through Curran Saddle over to Marie Saddle Road #412. From there, it's just 2.3 miles back to North Fork…
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Total Miles
13.2
Tech Rating
2Easy
Best Time
Fall, Summer

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