Dirt Bike Trails Near Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Forest Loop Road 445

Forest Loop Road 445 leads from NM Highway 165 to the northern base of the Sandia Mountains and back to NM 165. The western side of the loop is more difficult with some washouts, arroyos…
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Total Miles
5.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Sp / Su / Fa

Birdhouse Ridge

Birdhouse Ridge is an intermediate trail in the Cibola National Forest that gains 650 feet over 2.7 miles as it heads south. It starts at the Tunnel Trailhead off State Highway 337 and continues as…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
6 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Tunnel

Tunnel is a 2.6-mile-long single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System. It is accessed either from the Tunnel Trailhead or Otero Trailhead off State Highway 337, south of the town of Tijeras, New Mexico.…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Coyote Mesa Trail

Coyote Mesa Trail is listed on MUVM maps as FR462. Its starts just south of Tijeras in Chamisos Canyon, and crosses the mesa north of Cedro Peak ending near the Zuzax area. This trail offers…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Powerline

Powerline Trail is a 2.7-mile long single-track trail in the Manzanita Mountain trail system just west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This trail is made up of several hard sections of rock ledge climbs that are…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
7 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Fa

West Ridge

West Ridge is a 2.6-mile single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The south end starts at the intersection with Otero Canyon and heads north. It starts on the south…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Jackalope

Jackalope is a 2.3-mile-long single track that starts directly off State Highway 337 with no staging or parking area. The trail just starts behind a gate. You wouldn't notice this trail is here unless looking…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Coyote-Chamisoso Link

This is a short 1.1-mile-long trail starting at the Coyote Trailhead, which has several spots for parking. It starts through a pinch point at a gated dirt road. It parallels the dirt road on a…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Cedro Peak

Cedro Peak is an off road trail situated in the Cibola National Forest. You'll find several opportunities to take in this trail's views as you gain 1000 feet in elevation from Cedro Canyon to the…
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Total Miles
4.6
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Chamisoso

Chamisoso starts out on the west end as a flowy, smooth dirt trail through a grassy meadow elevated above a ravine. The beginning is a 2 difficulty. After the intersection with Coyote Split, it comes…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Otero Canyon

Otero Canyon is a really fun and easy trail in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System by Albuquerque, New Mexico. This one is scenic, fast, and flowy, with a few rocky sections. It starts from the…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Blue Ribbon

The Blue Ribbon single track is a 2.5-mile trail in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System that starts on the north end near the Otero Trailhead. The south end starts off of 106 Road. Going south…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Coyote

Coyote is a 5-mile-long single track in the Manzanita Mountain OHV area that is popular with dirt bikers, mountain bikers, and hikers. It's very windy through a forested desert terrain full of pinyon pine and…
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Total Miles
4.6
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Delberts

Delberts is a challenging single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System near Albuquerque, New Mexico that has lots of rock ledges, roots, and shelfy sections of trail. This trail is slightly harder than some…
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Total Miles
3.9
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Coyote Split

Coyote Split is a 2-mile single track that connects the Coyote Trail to the Chamisoso Trail. It's narrow and shelfy at times, with loose rock and embedded slab rock ledges in the dirt trail. It…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Cedro Peak Loop via FR 542

Cedro peak is one of the best sets of 4x4 trails near Albuquerque. This route goes up to the peak using the more primitive FR 542 route, and then returns on the wide gravel roads…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Gnasty W/AG

Gnasty W/AG is an intermediate single track with several rocky obstacles. It climbs up from the south end of Otero Canyon to meet back up with the Blue Ribbon trail. It's a steady climb, only…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Rabbit Run

Rabbit Run is a quick single-track trail that starts across the road from the Powerline Trail and gains 300 feet as it climbs to the top of a high desert hill in the Cibola National…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Three Bottles

Three Bottles is the hardest trail in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System near Albuquerque, New Mexico. This trail is best for running south to north, as it goes through several huge rock problems that are…
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Total Miles
2.7
Tech Rating
9 Difficult
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Sp

More Cowbell

More Cowbell is a 1.6-mile single track that connects the Coyote Trail to the Coyote Split Trail. This one is pretty flat with hardly any elevation gain, but it has lots of tight curves through…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Drop In

Drop In is a fast and easy single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System by Albuquerque, New Mexico. This trail starts and ends off of 106 Road, which is also easy. It has fast…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

106 Road

106 Road is a dirt bike trail in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System near Albuquerque, New Mexico. It runs south to north and is a quick way to connect the southern trails to ones farther…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Middle

Middle is one of the easier single tracks in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System, without any big rock ledges. It just has sections of loose rock and embedded slab but no big obstacles. It still…
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Total Miles
0.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Sp

West Boundary

West Boundary is an easy single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System that goes north to south along the west boundary of this OHV area in the Cibola National Forest. The land on the…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Cedro

Cedro is an intermediate single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System that starts at the Cedro Trailhead and ends on Forest Service Road 05627 (Meadow Ridge). This trail has a lot more fast and…
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Total Miles
1.9
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Cajun Pine

Cajun Pine is an easy trail in the Cibola National Forest near Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the most part, it's easy, with a few spots of embedded rock slabs, loose rocks, and small ledges. The…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

530 Road

530 Road is an old dirt road that is closed to motor vehicles other than motorcycles. It's super easy the whole way, being a smooth dirt road with only a couple of spots where there…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Meadow Ridge Loop

Meadow Ridge Loop is a part of the Cedro peak network of trails in the south half of the Sandia Ranger district. This trail has some areas with significant challenges for stock vehicles, including one…
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Total Miles
6.3
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Mighty Mule

Mighty Mule is a 1.3-mile-long single track in the Manzanita Mountain Trail System. It parallels the Meadow Ridge Jeep Trail and is pretty straight, with light curves with banked corners. This one doesn't have many…
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Total Miles
1.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Rattlesnake

Rattlesnake is a short single track in a high desert/low alpine terrain that descends from Forest Service Road 05627 (Meadow Ridge) to the intersection with Mighty Mule. It loses 230 feet of elevation over the…
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Total Miles
0.9
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa