Dirt Bike Trails Near Fallon Station, Nevada

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Lunchtime Rip

Lunchtime Rip is a short fun trail consisting of a sandy salt flat and packed dirt with many ruts and routes along with a short hill climb meeting up with Powerline Road. This a fun…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp

Red Ant Mine

The route takes you from Sand Mt. Recreational Area to the Red Ant Mine. Red Ant Mine was an old tungsten mine. Not much of the infrastructure is left. There is a head frame, a…
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Total Miles
15.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Apache Mercury Claims

This route takes you to a Mercury Prospect. Not many remains of the old mining buildings, just a concrete floor. The main road is a well-groomed wash until it turn off onto an old mining…
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Total Miles
1.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp

Clifton Flat Trail

Clifton Flat is a valley known for herds of wild horses and herds of Pronghorn Antelope. The trailhead starts at the unlocked barbed wire wild horse protection gate. Make sure to properly close and latch…
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Total Miles
11
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Lovelock Cave

This flat gravel road is well maintained. Lovelock Cave was in use as early as 2580 BC but was not intensively inhabited until around 1000 BC. People occupied Lovelock Cave for over 4,000 years. The…
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Total Miles
8.9
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Boyer Ranch

This trail has a lot of washboards, rocked gravel/dirt roads. You can go a comfortable 40 MPH, if you air down, the ride can be smoother. This takes you below the old ranch homestead of…
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Total Miles
28.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Bodie High Desert Highway

This route takes you from the high desert of Nevada to the chaparral of the Sierra Front Range. The Nevada side is dominated by wide, generally well-graded dirt roads, while the California side takes you…
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Total Miles
61.3
Tech Rating
2 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Wild Horse Trail

This route takes you from the outskirts of Dayton, Nevada to Clifton Flats. The trail head starts at the unlocked wild horse protection gate. Make sure to properly close and latch the gate. The trail…
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Total Miles
11.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp / Wi

Dixie Valley Tanks

There are 20+ military tanks left out in the desert of Dixie Valley. The road is flat and graveled. A car will have no problems. The tanks were placed on old homesteads by the Navy…
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Total Miles
10.8
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su

Sage Hen Wash/Sahwave Mountains

The route takes you along a High Voltage Power Line Road that is well maintained. The road is built on the ancient shoreline of Winnemucca Lake and in the wash of Sage Hen Valley. Much…
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Total Miles
30.5
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

West Steam Shovel OHV Trail

The trail starts at the valley floor and rises 3,800 ft. to the pass. The road is not well maintained and has heavy erosion exposing large rocks that need to be removed by hand. At…
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Total Miles
23.4
Tech Rating
6 Moderate
Best Time
Su

Sunrise Pass Road

This graded dirt county road begins at the Johnson Lane OHV Park located east of Minden, NV. As the road gradually ascends, it traverses alluvial plains covered in sage and low canyons with juniper trees.…
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Total Miles
23
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Old Como Road

This road begins at Dayton, Nevada, and gradually rises in elevation from 4367' to 7128' into the Pine Nut Mountains and is located on mostly BLM lands. The trail starts off over a flat alluvial…
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Total Miles
18.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Nightingale Mine

These are old mining roads that weave their way through what was once the Nightingale Mine. Active in the 40s, the mine was extracting tungsten ore for the war effort. The are still a few…
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Total Miles
3.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Lodi Hill Nevada

These OHV roads were once part of the Quartz Mt. mining district, and there's still a large headframe over the mine. The road is composed of mostly gravel and dirt with only a few washouts…
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Total Miles
12.5
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Winnemucca Lake Caves South Shore

This is a well-traveled gravel road. On the south end of the route, the road curves around a sand dune that can cover up the trail at times. Many of the caves on this end…
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Total Miles
17.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Pine Grove Connector ATV

From Drainage End Trail, this road is impassable by all vehicles. The road is a flat sandy wash that ends at a 50' rock wall. We saw some side trails that lead up and around…
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Total Miles
0.6
Tech Rating
10 Difficult
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Winnemucca Lake School Buses

The route takes you along the east side of the dry lake bed and up into the Nightingale Range. Up in the hills are two, 1950s school buses that were used to transport workers to…
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Total Miles
13
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Dodge-Ford Mine

This is a quick spur off Coal Canyon Road to the Dodge-Ford iron mine. The road is a well-maintained gravel road that leads to an open pit mine. The pit is 200ft deep with water…
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Total Miles
2.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp / Su

Steam Shovel OHV Trail

The trail is not heavily traveled with trees and bushes. Some downed trees and rocks needed to be cleared form the trail. The trail is rocky and in February there was water coming down the…
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Total Miles
3
Tech Rating
6 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

South Relief Canyon

This canyon is comprised of old mining roads that have seen decades of erosion. You start down at Packard Flat. This area has flour-fine dirt that will cover everything in dust. Proceeding to the top…
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Total Miles
17.9
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Stillwater Range

Starts at the Steam Shovel. The road is well maintained but is not well traveled. Spent an hour clearing a large tree off the road. Tried this route in March and was turned around by…
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Total Miles
19.3
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Su

Glyphs from Lockwood

Great trail for the family! Relatively moderate throughout the whole trail. It gets rocky and is very bumpy. There are some sand washes and one creek crossing. The end of the trail hosts a ton…
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Total Miles
8.5
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Big Buck Meadows Trail

Big Buck Meadows Trail follows the power line service road for about 1.5 miles. This portion of the trail consists of a single vehicle-wide trail with a few easy hairpin switchbacks. Ascending about 800 feet…
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Total Miles
5.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

7 Troughs Range

The town of Mazuma was established in 1907, and was the central hub of the mining district in the Seven Troughs Mountain Range. The town was later washed away in a 20-foot wall of water…
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Total Miles
130.1
Tech Rating
4 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Dry Lakes Loop

The trail starts at a cattle guard after you leave the staging area. The first few miles are soft sand with little to no obstruction. The area to the north side of the trail is…
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Total Miles
20.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Spanish Springs Foothills

This is a fantastic trail for a mid-level, experienced rider who is looking for great vistas overlooking Reno and Sparks. There's always a chance to see groups of wild mustangs along the trails throughout the…
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Total Miles
7.1
Tech Rating
6 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Spanish Springs Foothills

A multi-directional trail in the Spanish Springs Foothills that can be used as a connector to many other trails. The trail consists of various elevation changes and steep grades. Hard pack gravel is the norm…
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Total Miles
6.7
Tech Rating
7 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Buena Vista Valley

This is a fast route that will get you from the trailhead to the Stillwater Range. Both ends of this route have some interesting mercury mines that still have structures and the furnaces used to…
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Total Miles
16.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp

Desert Creek Loop

Short loop following Desert Creek between Smith Valley, NV and Bridgeport, CA. Several campgrounds are located along the creek, and there's good fishing and hiking nearby. The road is mostly one vehicle wide along the…
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Total Miles
16.1
Tech Rating
3 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa