Trail Overview
Broadhead Loop is one of the longer ATV trails in the Murdock Basin ATV system, looping around the hills north of the staging area for four miles, starting and ending off of the #416 4x4 trail. The Broadhead Loop is mostly gradual and wide, riding over consistently rocky terrain. The trail is frequently covered in small embedded rock surfaces, with loose football-sized rocks that can ping you around. A few spots are like riding through a small rock garden, when there are bigger boulders embedded in the trail all in a row. The trail mostly goes through flat forested terrain with meadows and lodge pole pines, but there are a couple short climbs and descents that are somewhat steeper, and a few tighter turns through the trees. One grassy meadow section had some deep ruts that ATVs can straddle. Watch out for puddles, small stream crossings, and a wooden bridge.
Difficulty
The Broadhead Loop has several easy and more flowy sections with fewer rocks, but is also full of rocky segments where riders go through small rock gardens and up short climbs full of small embedded boulders and loose rocks. There aren’t any major rock ledges or obstacles, but the constantly rocky terrain will make it a slow and bumpy ride.
