Dirt Bike Trails Near Horseshoe Bend, Idaho

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Idaho City to Horseshoe Bend Road

This 30.1-mile point-to-point road crosses over the Salmon River Mountains from Idaho City to Horseshoe Bend. This road gives access to hundreds of miles of off-roading, hiking, and mountain bike trails in the Boise National…
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Total Miles
28.1
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Harris Creek Trail

This 13.9-mile point-to-point trail connects the Bogus Basin area to the Harris Creek area. Stop at 3.5 miles from Bogus Basin and hike out to Coyote Rock, or stop at 7.4 miles from Bogus Basin…
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Total Miles
13.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Boise Ridge Road

This is a moderate forest service road starting near Bogus Basin, continuing to Rocky Canyon and overlooking Boise, Idaho. This road becomes impassable due to the amount of snow in the winter. In the spring,…
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Total Miles
17.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Su

Grimes Pass Road

This 14.9-mile point-to-point trail takes you up to the top of Grimes Pass at 4835 FT. Starting from the south end it is a gentle climb of around 750 FT to the top of the…
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Total Miles
14.1
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Rocky Canyon Road

Pretty simple road during the summer months that cuts over to Robbie Creek. A nice alternate route to Hwy 21, or a good road to access the ridge road. The winter months can vary depending…
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Total Miles
8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Airline

Airline is best run during spring or fall. It's a combination of smooth and flowy single track, coupled with both loose rock, and boulder sections. A fun adventure for intermediate riders. There are some spots…
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Total Miles
13.5
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Missouri Mine Trail

This 8.7-mile point-to-point trail starts at the top of Grimes Pass and heads back down to Pioneerville. This fun short trail is passable by High-clearance 4X4 vehicles but has a lot of overgrowths that may…
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Total Miles
8.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Rabbit Creek Road

Enjoy this easy road in the Idaho mountains outside of Boise with good camp spots, views, and beautiful nature around you. This road is possible with any car, even bicycles or motorcycles. Snow or water…
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Total Miles
32.9
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

North Fork River Road

Do you like long drives on a dirt road, river views, and hot springs? This road is for you! Enjoy a dirt road that follows along the Boise River. It is possible to do this…
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Total Miles
23.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

501

501 is an easy 50" trail for dirt bikes and ATVs but is slightly harder for ATVs due to steep climbs and lots of whoops. The trail is a wide ridge line path across a…
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Total Miles
3.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

503

This short ATV trail is in the Danskin Trail System just southeast of Boise, Idaho. It's a wide and shelfy ATV trail that is two-track wide, with a steady decline and meanders by a creek.…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

502

This short ATV trail connects ATV trails 500 and 501. It's mostly easy but has two sections where the trail is rutted out right down the center of the trail. On a dirt bike, it's…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Pilot Peak/Summit Flat 380

This trail ascends all the way to Pilot Peak lookout tower at 8,090 Ft in elevation. This trail is rocky and rough with snow banks and downed trees still present in mid-June. Most of the…
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Total Miles
3.9
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

510

This fun and challenging single track goes through a dry low alpine terrain with tall grass, lots of overgrown shrubs, and sparsely separated coniferous trees with lots of pine needles on the ground. It's a…
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Total Miles
3.5
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Sp / Su

301

Danskin #301 is a challenging single track in the Boise National Forest full of creek crossings, rock obstacles, and narrow shelfy trail sections. Throughout the trail, it has about 6 creek crossings. The creek crossings…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

512

Danskin #512 is a ridge line single track in the Boise National Forest. It's on a wider ridge line atop a series of rolling green hills, and the trail itself is a decently wide single…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

Along The Edge

Another connecting trail to many of the others in the area, this one leads right along the fence line and, at one point, along the edge of the railroad tracks. At times the trail becomes…
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Total Miles
7.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Giddy Up

This short section of trail is highly rutted and uneven. After a good rain storm, there are an endless number of water/mud holes. This trail connects the main dirt road to several other trails in…
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Total Miles
3.5
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

302

Danskin #302 is a short trail used to connect with #301 but has a tricky rock obstacle in a creek crossing. It drops down from ATV #300 on a grassy hillside towards the creek, with…
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Total Miles
0.3
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

521

ATV #521 is a wide ridge line two-track with wide open views of the surrounding Danskin Mountains. It starts at a 5 way intersection with trails #531, #530, and #532 at the bottom of a…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

530

This narrow and shelfy single track is a fun ride in the Danskin Mountains that is different than the many ridge line trails in the trail system. This trail drops off from ATV trail #521…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

531

This is one of several easy ATV trails in the Danskin Trail System of the Boise National Forest. On the north end, this one starts in a pine tree forest with a big creek crossing…
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Total Miles
2.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

532

This ridge line trail starts on the east end with a shallow creek crossing in an overgrown wooded section full of trees, brush, and low branches. After the creek, it climbs up to the intersection…
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Total Miles
1.2
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

311

Danskin #311 is a ridge line single track in the Danskin Trail System in the Boise National Forest. It hill climbs the entire way from ATV #300 to the #310 single track, gaining almost 900…
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Total Miles
1.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

401

Single track #401 in the Danskin Mountains is a very steep downhill the entire way from #310 to #400, losing 1,300 feet in 1.5 miles. It's a bunch of steep descents, sometimes with a flatter…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Prairie Dog Lane

This area of BLM is a spiderweb of trails. This particular one is fairly short but wild and rugged in terrain. The trail is less visible in some places but it is still defined enough…
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Total Miles
3.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su

533

This is a short ridge line trail in the Danskin Trail System that spurs off of #532 on the north end and connects to ATV #531 on the south end. Unlike many of the other…
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Total Miles
0.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

312

This short single track in the Danskin Trail System is a ridge line trail that goes over a series of rolling hills in this mountain range with lots of steep hill climbs and descents. It…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Rock Creek

Rock Creek trail is a 16-mile route that starts just south of Lowman, ID, winds its way up 2,200'+ in elevation, and then dumps the rider onto Highway 21 near Beaver Creek Summit. The route…
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Total Miles
15.3
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

409

#409 is a short and steep hill climb trail in the Danskin Trail System southeast of Boise, Idaho. Many of the trails in this trail system flow along a ridge line atop the rolling green…
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Total Miles
0.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp