Dirt Bike Trails Near New River, Arizona

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Shoemaker Spring Access Trail

This is a short high-clearance primitive road that starts off of North New River Road and connects to Shoemaker Spring. It's uneven and bumpy, with deep ruts that are filled in with round softball-sized rocks.…
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Total Miles
2.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

3200

3200 is a shortcut between two halves of the Quail Springs Loop. This trail is more ridden and beat in. It's a hardpack dirt surface with some loose rocks, some steeper grades, and ruts on…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Shoemaker Spring

Shoemaker Spring runs south to north at the edge of the Tonto National Forest near New River, Arizona. It's a primitive route in a lightly used OHV area that is accessed off of North New…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Sp

King Well 497

497 is a wider dirt trail with lots of small and medium-sized loose rocks on the surface for much of the route. It goes through wide open desert terrain, with ruts running down the road,…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

3197

3197 runs west-east in the Tonto National Forest near New River and is an intermediate Jeep trail in a lightly used OHV area. The west end departs from the neighborhood from West Mingus Road and…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Shoemaker Connector

This 1.7-mile segment of trail runs north-south between 3197 and the Quail Springs Loop in this primitive OHV area near New River, Arizona. This trail is more of a main thoroughfare compared to Shoemaker Springs.…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

New River Trail

This 18.9-mile point-to-point trail takes you along the New River Valley up into the Tonto National Forest. This trail starts easy as a maintained two-vehicle road for the first mile. Then the trail narrows to…
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Total Miles
18.1
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

El Paso Pipeline Road

This is a dirt-covered service road that is regularly maintained. It's a fun, easy route for getting to different areas. There's nothing technical about this trail aside from a couple of sandy washes. Note of…
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Total Miles
5.7
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp

Cactus Express

A quick, short little section of trail that connects Lake Pleasant road to Saguaro Way trail, which leads to a shooting area. There is nothing terribly technical about this route aside from a couple of…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Black Canyon City Overlook

This little shortcut from New River Trail to the Road to Nowhere will not disappoint. There are great views and steep climbs and descents. Some of this trail is a shelf road and has some…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Table Mesa Road

Table Mesa Road provides primary access to the Table Mesa Recreation Area and its network of OHV trails. It is primarily a washboard gravel road, though washouts and ruts can be present on occasion. While…
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Total Miles
4.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

9949 to Black Canyon Trail

This short section of trail and Black Canyon Trail are closed to vehicles over 60" wide. The west section is in a shooting area, so use caution around that area. There are a couple of…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Saguaro Way

This section of trail weaves its way through the beautiful desert and leads to a shooting area at the North end. It also connects to a handful of other trails. There are a couple of…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp

Trail 9949

This short section of trail is more narrow and therefore is only open to small utility SXS and smaller. No full-size trucks or SXS's. Nothing too technical on this trail, aside from one section with…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp

Zip Zap

This power line service trail connects to the Boulder Creek Ranch area. It's primarily easy in technicality, but the southern end of the trail does have a couple of short technical rock garden sections. There…
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Total Miles
8.1
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Su / Sp

Road to Nowhere

Great day out exploring trying to find the Tip Top Mine - Unfortunately, this is not the way, but it is a road with some great views if you feel like going on a slow…
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Total Miles
12.8
Tech Rating
6 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Crapshoot

This trail gets its name from the hill, which has some rolling steps in it. Crapshoot is an advanced trail off of Table Mesa Road due to many steep and loose climbs and descents and…
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Total Miles
6.9
Tech Rating
7 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

TV-(Not) Raw Deal

This is an intermediate Jeep trail off of Table Mesa Road that goes up a wash with several rock-ledge obstacles. There's a staging area directly across from the start of the trail, but the entrance…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
6 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

TV-1 Diehard

TV-1 is a nasty rock-crawling trail meant for only the most extreme rock-crawling vehicles. The majority of the trail is full of several-foot-high boulders and huge rock ledges. As it leaves Table Mesa Road, it…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
9 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

North Little Grand Canyon 9994

Little Grand Canyon is a feature that runs through the middle of the Table Mesa area filled with cottonwood trees and birds. This is a Jeep trail off of Table Mesa Road that heads north…
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Total Miles
2.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Wi / Fa / Sp

9991

This is a mile-long section of road that shortcuts between two sections of Moores Gulch Road and will likely be part of a bigger loop in the Table Mesa OHV area. This section is really…
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Total Miles
0.7
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Yellow Loop 9990

The Yellow Loop is a 60-inch trail that leaves the staging area by the training loops off of Moores Gulch Road and heads north. It has lots of ruts and uneven sections right from the…
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Total Miles
1.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Training Loops

The training loops are a warm-up/practice loop for ATVs and dirt bikes, geared towards helping kids learn to ride. They start at the staging area off of Moores Gulch Road 46, and there are A,…
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Total Miles
0.5
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Wi / Fa

Boulder Creek

This trail ascends out of the Agua Fria stream, mostly dry, down Little Grand Canyon Road off of West Table Mesa Road. The ascent is steep, with a few boulders that could hit a differential…
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Total Miles
5.7
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Indian Fort

A stone wall fort on a small flat-top hill just off the Table Mesa North Access Road. Drive to the base of the hill and scramble up an easy climb to enter the fort. Commanding…
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Total Miles
1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp

New River Mesa Approach

New River Mesa Approach (FR 17) is a 2.44-mile one-way out and back trail. This trail is called the New River Mesa "Approach" as it leads to the base of New River Mesa. It is…
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Total Miles
2.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Oasis Trail

The Oasis Trail (FR37) is a 2.5-mile side trail from New River Trail (FR41). It ends at a beautiful oasis of waterfalls and pools, some of which are big enough to swim in. The trail…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Wi

Back Way to Black Canyon City

An off-highway route that winds through the mountains between Black Canyon City and the Table Mesa Recreation Area. Nice scenery and a few eroded, rocky hills add a bit of a challenge. The southern part…
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Total Miles
9.8
Tech Rating
6 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Su

Cramm Trail

This quick, scenic out-and-back trail is relatively easy. The only thing to note is the river wash in the beginning, as well as water erosion areas on trail in a few spots. One or two…
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Total Miles
2.1
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Cramm Mountain Loop

This very short, easy, loop trail around Cramm Mountain offers sweeping 360 views of the desert landscape. It does seem that this trail is minimally used and therefore has vegetation overgrowth in places - higher…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi