Dirt Bike Trails Near La Puebla, New Mexico

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Jemez to Espanola

This is a very scenic route around the North side of the Valles Caldera. It goes from the Jemez Mountains over to Espanola and is a great full-day loop with plenty of exploring to be…
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Total Miles
57.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Borrego Mesa Trail

Beginning in the New Mexico town of Cordova, this trail climbs into the foothills of the Sangre De Christo Mountains. While the Borrego Mesa trail itself is relatively easy, it provides access to several other…
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Total Miles
8.5
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Pecos WIlderness Border Road

This route runs through the open highlands of Borrego Mesa, providing expansive views of the surrounding foothills. This section is not maintained and is prone to significant washouts and ruts. In dry conditions, the primary…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Rio Del Oso

This is a tight and narrow unmaintained forest service road that traverses through sand and rock while following Rio Del Oso Creek. The last leg of the trail is the most challenging. The road enters…
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Total Miles
11.3
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Borregoanger Cabin Cutoff

Borregoanger cabin is a foundation deep in the National Forest next to an unusual quartz and granite promontory. The trail to reach the cabin leaves from the Borrego Mesa Trail and climbs down switchbacks into…
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Total Miles
2.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

El Camino Real y Diablo Canyon Trail

The El Camino Trail road will take you to Diablo Canyon and to the Rio Grande River. It is almost an extension of the Camino la Tierra road off of Hwy 599. It changes in…
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Total Miles
8.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Upper Diablo Canyon Rd

This short road is somewhat deceiving as it appears to take you to a water pump station and nothing more. At the very end of the road is a single spot for dry primitive camping…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Guaje Canyon

Guaje Canyon trail is marked as Forest Service Trail #282. The trailhead is easy to find at the bottom of Rendija Canyon and traverses the canyon bottom towards Camp May. You will travel through the…
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Total Miles
3.8
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Corral Canyon

Corral Canyon is a 4.2-mile single track in the Sante Fe National Forest north of the town of Los Alamos and is probably the most fun and most popular dirt bike trail in this area.…
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Total Miles
3.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Chupaderos Spur

Chupaderos Spur is an easy road-width trail that starts off Chupaderos Road 446. It's a dead-end trail that doesn't really end at anything but could be fun for a beginner to explore the area since…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Beanfield Ridge

Beanfield Ridge is a short single track through a grassy high desert terrain that is easy to miss from both entrances because there are no trail markings in this area. It departs from Maria's Canyon…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Cany

Cany is a road-width braided trail in the Sante Fe National Forest north of the town of Los Alamos. It's a short trail, 0.9 miles, that connects FS Roads 446 and 445. The trail is…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Mule Train

Mule Train is an intermediate single track north of Los Alamos, New Mexico, with some moderate rocky sections that will require significant route-finding skills when the trail goes through a burn area. The northwest entrance…
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Total Miles
3.4
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Dead Dog Trail & Santa Fe Ranch

This road off of the Camino Real Road is an easy drive, except for a dip with soft sand early on crossing Alamo Creek. There are a couple of mud puddles that had bypasses. For…
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Total Miles
4.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Chupaderos South Trail 822 aka Around the Mountain

This trail starts just off Maria's Canyon Road, and traverses around the mountain range with a nice view of the surrounding area just as you reach the halfway point. The entrance can be a bit…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
4 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Pine Spring

Pine Spring is an intermediate single track in the Sante Fe National Forest north of the town of Los Alamos. Both entrances to the trail are pretty faint and hidden, so a GPS track is…
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Total Miles
2.7
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Alamitos Loop

The Alamitos Loop is a fun and challenging trail in the OHV area north of the town of Los Alamos that will require some significant route finding in spots. The north end starts off of…
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Total Miles
4.4
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Caja del Rio to La Bajada Mesa-USFS 24

The Caja del Rio Road (#24) is a 23-mile drive across the Caja del Rio Plateau to La Bajada Mesa. It ends with a large escarpment dropping 1000 feet to the valley below with the…
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Total Miles
20.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

BLM-SFNF Connector & Camping

This short unnamed road is part of the Caja del Rio area of the Santa Fe National Forest. It provides access to the large BLM area with Diablo Canyon and the Camino Real trail adjoining…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Guaje Connector

Guaje Connector Trail is Forest Service Road #803. This trail connects Guaje Canyon up to Guaje Ridge and back over to town just behind the Guaje Pines Cemetery. As the trail climbs out of Guaje…
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Total Miles
3.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Arroyo Hondo Forest Service 79

Forest Service road that climbs a wide loose and rutted road. There are many shallow ruts and a few deep ruts that must be navigated around if clearance is an issue. There is a very…
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Total Miles
4.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

FS 23/FS 137 Abiquiu to El Rito

This trail begins by turning right onto FS 23 from US 84 North, just south of Route 96 turn off to the lake. You will begin climbing in elevation and the views to the west…
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Total Miles
21.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Glorieta Baldy

Glorieta Baldy is a trail on the South end of the Pecos Mountain area featuring numerous camp sites and an expansive view of the Pecos/Glorieta area. The trail starts at the back of a neighborhood…
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Total Miles
14.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Elk Mountain

The Elk Mountain Trail is an out-and-back at Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico. It is an easy and very scenic ride to the peak at 11.6k feet, where the views are incredible. Towards…
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Total Miles
13.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

FS 44 El Rito to Vallecitos

This is a scenic, well-maintained US FS road connecting El Rito and Vallecitos. There are no services in either small mountain community besides the restaurant El Farolito (cash only). With a number of other US…
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Total Miles
15.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Dalton Canyon

This trail is one of the more accessible routes into the Pecos Mountains. Navigable by most cross-overs, this trail is a local favorite for camping and riding. The trail is mostly well-maintained gravel, with some…
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Total Miles
2.4
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Close to the Southern Edge

This is a short side road off of Caja Del Rio Road USFS 24, which takes you to a Southern escarpment of the plateau overlooking the Santa Fe River basin below. There are a few…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Molino Meadows

This is an easy trail across some open meadows on NM State Land. Unfortunately, despite maps of the trail showing National Forest access, the trail currently dead ends at a gate preventing access to FSR…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Hang Glider Road

Hang Glider road is a short side road near the end of Caja del Rio Road USFS 24. There is nothing special about this trail until you reach the end with spectacular views to the…
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Total Miles
0.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Where is Waldo?

This is an easy route that connects I-25 at the top of La Bajada Hill with Highway 14 at the Village of Cerrillos. For many years, there was a well-marked turnoff to Waldo on I-25.…
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Total Miles
7.4
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi