Dirt Bike Trails Near Parachute, Colorado

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Dry Fork

Follow Cocoran Wash for 13 miles and you will reach an overlook with great views into Hunter Canyon. The trail then follows a ridge with many opportunities to walk around and explore hoodoo rock formations.…
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Total Miles
40
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Monument Rocks

Spend some time with the wild horses on this out-and-back trail through LIttle Book Cliffs Wild Horse Area. There will be chance to take photos at some overlooks, and there are a few camping options.…
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Total Miles
25.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Coon Hollow

Enjoy this relatively quiet trail that starts by crossing washes and travels through a canyon. You will then begin a steep climb up to a ridge with great views of South Shale Ridge and Twin…
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Total Miles
8.2
Tech Rating
8 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Leon Lake

Leon Lake Jeep trail goes between Cedaredge and Vega Reservoir. A scenic trip, although a bit rocky and bumpy through the center portion. Leon Lake is a beautiful lake at a little over 10,000' elevation.…
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Total Miles
28.9
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

Overland Reservoir

This is a scenic graded road over Grand Mesa between Paonia and Collbran, easy enough to be done in a passenger car. Overland Reservoir is owned by Overland Ditch and Reservoir Company, founded in 1903…
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Total Miles
58
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Su / Sp / Fa

Speer Hunter

This is a short, but very fun trail for all OHVs up the back of South Shale Ridge. Start with an easy climb, then drop down to Dry Fork. There are great lookout spots and…
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Total Miles
22.7
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Sp

Park Creek/Salt Creek Loop

This loop offers an easy to moderate mix of terrain with great vistas, aspen groves, moderate stream crossings, and wildlife. A Colorado state park pass will be needed to enter Vega State Park which gives…
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Total Miles
17.2
Tech Rating
3 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Silver Spruce to High Trail Loop

Mostly 50" track with several creek crossings, steep climbs, and descents. This trail winds through Aspen and Spruce forest before traveling across the Grand Mesa. There are cattle grazing, deer, elk, bears, and moose to…
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Total Miles
28.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa

Hay Flat

Hay Flat will take you south from Meeker and up through an aspen forest to a high flat area east of Grand Hogback. Enjoy the beautiful views and watch out for grazing cattle. This route…
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Total Miles
26.2
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

Coal Canyon

Close to Grand Junction, Coal Canyon provides easy access to multi-use recreation. This route begins in a wash and climbs to an overlook of Palisade. The trail continues in the wash, which gets narrower and…
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Total Miles
4.9
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

Point Camp Trail

Point Camp Trail is one of only a couple of single-track trails in the Grand Mesa National Forest near Grand Mesa, Colorado. This trail is 3.2 miles and mostly flat with only a couple hundred…
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Total Miles
3.6
Tech Rating
6 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

Mesa County Road 27 1/4

A great route for OHV and dispersed camping access in the Grand Junction area. Mostly loose gravel, though the later portion of the trail gets slightly more demanding with larger rocks, ruts, and washes. The…
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Total Miles
4.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

25 and 27 1/4 Connector

This is a good option for connecting Mesa County Roads 25 and 27 1/4 as opposed to backtracking entirely to town. There are other routes in the vicinity to explore, though most either dead end…
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Total Miles
2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Mesa County Road 25

A good resource for dispersed camping in the Grand Junction Area. There is a vast network of offshoots and alternate routes in this BLM area. Monitoring weather conditions prior to arrival is recommended. Use previously…
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Total Miles
6.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Miller Creek Loop

Miller Creek Loop, part of the popular Wagon Wheel OHV trail system, is short but fun. You will start with a steep climb to great views and then wind through beautiful aspen groves. Get ready…
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Total Miles
16.3
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

Cicada

Cicada is a short trail in the North Fruita Desert trail system that is mostly fast and scenic. It winds along several ridge lines in a burn area, through sagebrush, and has 4 or 5…
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Total Miles
3.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa

Cloud City

Cloud City is a short trail in the North Fruita Desert that can be ridden as part of a bigger day loop with Cicada, Sky Walker, and Sarlacc. It meanders through low grass in a…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa

16 Road, Coal Gulch

Take this trail through a beautiful, winding canyon. Early on, you will have the option to continue straight to an overlook, or take a left and view the end of the extreme 21 Road trail.…
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Total Miles
13.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa

Powerline Wash Loop

This sandy wash has fast tight banked turns and is a fun place to warm up before heading to other nearby trails. The wash is the first 1/4 of the loop with the remainder 6.5…
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Total Miles
9.4
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Alkali Basin

Alkali Basin Loop is a combination of the Alkali Basin Trail on the west and the Pipeline West Trail on the east. This allows for a through Jeep trail rather than an in-and-out. The namesake…
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Total Miles
25.7
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Su / Fa

21 Road South

21 Road South is a route providing further access to dispersed camping and OHV opportunities on BLM lands in the Fruita/Grand Junction area. The road is paved for little ways once on public lands before…
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Total Miles
3.7
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

BLM Route 220

From west to east, this trail starts off as a fast and flowy single track through smooth desert terrain. It drops down into a wash for a couple of miles that is mostly sand with…
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Total Miles
5.2
Tech Rating
5 Moderate
Best Time
Fa

Sarlacc

The Sarlacc is a fun and scenic single track in the North Fruita Desert. The trail is fast and flowy and mostly on smooth dirt on top of a rocky ridgeline overlooking the Fruita Valley.…
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Total Miles
7.2
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Fa

Orange Loop, North Fruita Desert

Orange Loop is a fun, flowy single-track trail in the North Fruita Desert. Trails here are well marked with dozens of options. The trail starts out heading east on a Jeep trail. You enter Branch…
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Total Miles
14.6
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

BLM Route 196

BLM Route 196 is a fast single track in the North Fruita Desert trail system north of Fruita, Colorado. The east end of the trail starts at the back of a public utility plant on…
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Total Miles
3.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

West Ute Cr

Enjoy this beautiful road high up in the Colorado mountains. Hunters enjoy this area for its vast views and open areas to be able to spot prey. I enjoy it for the amazing scenery and…
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Total Miles
5.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

BLM Route 197

This single track is similar to many of the other single tracks in the lower part of the North Fruita Desert, as it is a smooth and narrow single track that flows over the rolling…
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Total Miles
1.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Sp

The Tabequache

The Tabeguache Trail is located in the Bangs Canyon Recreation Area and was developed with the help of the Grand Junction Four-Wheelers. You can find pretty much anything you're looking for here. All roads lead…
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Total Miles
16.2
Tech Rating
7 Difficult
Best Time
Sp / Fa

BLM Route 174

BLM Route 174 is primarily a pipeline access trail that runs from 21 Road to 16 Road. It can be used as a connector between these two points, however, not many opportunities exist for camping,…
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Total Miles
8.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

BLM Route 89

BLM Route 89 is a short ATV trail in the trail system accessed off of Bean Ranch Road near Grand Junction, Colorado. It has wide swiping turns on a road width trail through pinyon pine…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa