Trail Overview

The Ant Flat Road is a pleasant and easy mountain drive that runs between Monte Cristo in Ogden Valley and Hardware Ranch in Cache County. The road is well graded making it very easy for just about anyone to drive and takes you through high-mountain valleys with nice views along the way. The road is usually open by late spring. It opens before many others in the surrounding mountains, making it great in late spring. It usually closes by late November. The road is a popular, groomed snowmobile trail in winter where you can stop and see the elk wintering at Hardware Ranch.

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Technical Rating

Jamie Hurd

May 14, 2026

Open

The first part of the trail coming from the north to the south was pretty good. As you get down to the middle and closer to the end, you can tell it was muddy up in here not too long ago because there’s some pretty good ruts. I took my 2022 Africa twin down here. There’s only a couple of the ruts that got fairly deep, but outside of that it was good.

Andrew F

Apr 03, 2026

Open

Saw a few people while driving across, it is super wet right now with lots of water everywhere. Will likely dry up in a day or two

Hunter Hixon

Mar 22, 2026

Open

Open on both ends. Snow has melted with only one deep puddle. Rest of the road is dry.

Diego Orozco

Dec 20, 2025

Open

Mostly loose gravel and wet mud toward the south and and drier towards the north end but is closed off, south end still open

Aleksandar Tasic

May 02, 2025

Open

The trail is dry with two small water crossings closer to the South end. Mostly loose gravel, occasional packed dirt, graded, manageable climb grades, pretty shallow. It is a bit dusty, normal. Crossed it on the Africa Twin. Trail should be manageable for the big adventure bikes and beginning to intermediate riders.

Scott Taylor

May 02, 2025

Open

Josh Borges

Apr 20, 2025

Open

Christian Miller

Jan 03, 2025

Open

Cody Sommer

Dec 14, 2024

Open

Paul McKinney

Oct 13, 2024

Open

Andrew F

Jul 20, 2024

Open

Jordan Austin

May 13, 2024

Open

Dry and dusty

Mike Sisman

Apr 28, 2024

Open

Dan Babis

Apr 27, 2024

Open

The trail was open, but muddy and wet from run-off. Heading from South to North it was passable but very muddy. A few spot with snow making some hills challenging.

Andrew F

Apr 13, 2024

Open

Came up from hardware ranch and got a ways up the road before it became really muddy and then turned to deep snow. No full-size rig tracks through the snow but some ATV tracks continuing on. Snow will most likely clear in a few weeks given no more major snowstorms happen.