Dirt Bike Trails Near Watkins, Minnesota

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Spider Lake

This trail is a nice test loop during the winter to see if you should really venture around spider lake while winter wheeling. On the day we visited, there were 8-12 inches of fresh snow,…
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Total Miles
2.4
Tech Rating
4 Moderate
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Bull Run Trail

Bull Moose Trail is an incredibly beautiful forest road with access to many activities besides trail riding. This road provides fishing access to two different backwoods lakes and plenty of dispersed camping. One lake has…
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Total Miles
2.2
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Bull Run Trail Extension

This section of road seems to be tended to on occasion. Regardless, its a fairly wide trail with a few shoot off trails and campsites. One trail shoots off and connects up with a very…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Cut Lake Scenic Drive

This is one of the best trails in the Spider Lake, Foot Hills Park area. Don't ruin this gem! You drive off a beach and drive on small hills next to the lake with an…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

The Narrow Bull Moose Trail

This trail could basically be a forest road, granted it is ATV, SxS, and dirt bike only. It is really wide in spots and is primarily gravel, with some loose sand spots, water puddles to…
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Total Miles
2.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Bull Moose Trail

This trail connects forest roads from Spider Lake to Foot Hills State Forest. This minimum maintenance road is a little narrower in spots, overgrown with grass in spots, and I presume pretty fun in the…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Spider Lake North State Forestry Rd

This is a smooth well maintained forest road with access to some small lakes and dispersed camping. This road continues on to connect with perch lake minimum maintenance forest road which has some other really…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
1 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Narrow Foothills Highway

This trail is the continuation of the Narrow Bull Moose Trail. A small jaunt across the paved road will get you here. The trail does not allow SUV/lifted 4x4 rigs but is wide in some…
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Total Miles
2.9
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Huntersville Southeast Leg

This trail is really nice. There are areas of open forest where you can ride faster and other areas where it winds through the trees. There were no notable obstacles. Compared to nearby Paul Bunyan…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Huntersville Eastern Loop

This trail appears relatively new to the Huntersville Trail System. There are really small, close bumps that are hard to bridge; you feel them without going fast. The trail has many tight spots throughout the…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Huntersville East Central Loop

This trail is a nice continuous loop single track. There were a number of sections of roots and lots of whoops. There are no other major obstacles except one larger downed tree with a bypass.…
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Total Miles
4.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Thompson Minimum Maintenance Forest Road

Typical narrow minimum maintenance forest road. Some areas of rough mud and gravel. Overall nothing to really be worried about even in a stock SUV. There may be extra water or down branches depending on…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
2 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa / Wi

Huntersville East Wooded Free for All Trail

This trail is just one possible loop through the Huntersville Trail System; there are so many different sub-trails that it's hard to know which to take. These trails are all typically narrow with whoops and…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Scenic River Overlook Single Track

This trail is nothing too special as far as terrain goes, but there is a really nice seating and lookout space right near the river. There is space for bikes to pull off and enjoy…
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Total Miles
1.3
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Circle Farm Trail

This trail has many diverse woods sections: areas with new growth, narrow trees, then open mature forest. The trail has very few rocks and roots, just many whoops. Compared to nearby singletrack Paul Bunyan and…
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Total Miles
2.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

NE Huntersville Winding Woods

This trail featured a starter trail that is a cleared-out, tall-trunk forest with very few obstacles. There were many whoops but no water or rocks and little to no roots. General Notes about Huntersville: I…
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Total Miles
0.9
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Crow Wing River Single Track

This trail is a nice alternative to the other starter trails for the western trails at Huntersville. It parallels the river and adds some additional time to get to the bulk of the trails, but…
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Total Miles
3.2
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Fa / Su / Sp

Finn Lake Loop

This trail parallels a pretty lake toward the western section of the Huntersville trail system. The trail has some small hills and whoops, as well as some sharper, windy sections that appear to be rutted/wet…
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Total Miles
0
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Central Huntersville Cut Through

This single-track route is a borderline direct cut-through from many western/central forest roads to the primary Huntersville forest road. The trail winds through some pretty dense evergreen sections with lots of roots. There is also…
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Total Miles
0.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Huntersville Western Central Trail Start

This trail is one of two options if starting the western central Huntersville trails directly north of the system as opposed to near the river. This trail is pretty standard as wider single track with…
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Total Miles
1.7
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Huntersville Western Trailhead - East Leg

This is a nice, flowy, wooded section of trail with sections of heavy whoops but wide enough trees to keep some speed. It's a good option if you want to hit many central trails from…
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Total Miles
2.6
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Fa / Su

Huntersville Smooth Switch Back Start

This trail is one of the starter sections to many trails on the western side of Huntersville State Forest trails. It is not overly narrow and really fun, zig-zagging through the trees. There are no…
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Total Miles
1.4
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Huntersville Southwestern Trail

This trail is a Huntersville sampler. There are super dense forest sections where you have to slow down to thread trees, sections of many whoops, somewhat washed-out trails that are sandy, and some trail sections…
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Total Miles
2.8
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Huntersville Western Loop Parking Lot Jaunt

This trail is a nice connection route between the western parking area and the western dirt bike only loop. There is also a small gravel pit space near the junction in the middle. The trail…
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Total Miles
1.1
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Sp / Su / Fa

Huntersville Western Single Track Loop

This trail is a really pretty route through multiple wooded region types. There are a few large logging sections and a brief section of wider forest road, in addition to some occasional rocks, but otherwise…
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Total Miles
4.5
Tech Rating
3 Easy
Best Time
Su / Fa / Sp