Nine Mile Depths

Total Miles 1.5
Technical Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time Spring, Fall, Summer, Winter
Trail Type High-Clearance 4x4 Trail
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Trail Overview

The Nine Mile Depths is a natural maintained road through the St Francois Mountains in the Fredericktown Sector of Mark Twain National Forest. The Nine Mile Depths is last 1.6 miles of the road where the difficulty ramps up from the first 7.8 miles of Nine Mile (Marsh Creek FSR 2120). It features larger natural rock sticking up at the surface, dirt sections, a few gravel sections, loose rock, water collection holes, ruts, slight off camber spots, and tightened width of the tree line at the edges, pin striping is likely.

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Difficulty

The main difficulty is traversing the loose rock and natural rock, with less lift it will make you pick wise lines to get around them with out dragging while you dodge hitting the tightening trees, at a few spots may require multi-point turns to snake between the many trees. Add in water collection spots, mud, off-camber spots, and rain, and the difficulty is right in between a 3/10 and 4/10.

Technical Rating

4

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Chris Menz
Jan 19, 2024
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Tim Vollmer
Sep 17, 2023
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Nine Mile Depths Trail can be accessed by the following ride types:

  • High Clearance

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