Taking the guesswork out of having a good time.

Most People find out about places to ride by asking others who have ATVs where they enjoy riding.  While a perfectly natural thing to do, it has a rather difficult result in many instances.  Often large numbers of people end up at the same location, only because they knew of few other places to ride.  Easter weekend in 2002 saw 20000 people all congregated at the Little Sahara Sand Dunes.  I'm sure it was fun, but when it is so crowded, it makes it difficult to enjoy the reason you ventured out.   Some word of mouth riding areas are unknowingly on private land, which requires the permission of the land owner before a legal ride may be taken. Other places are on public lands, but closed to ATVs, Motorcycles, and 4x4s.  It is the use of such closed areas that gives our riding community a very bad name, and may result in the impound of some very expensive equipment, plus the payment of costly fines when levied by the courts.  Worse yet, this also results in the closure of other lands to public use, for the simple fear of abuse by the motorized public.  While there are ample legal places to ride, the ability to find them and have the ability to verify their legal availability in a minimum amount of time will keep those who love the sport of Off Highway Vehicle trail riding enjoying their sport for many decades to come.  It is everyone's responsibility to ride safely and legally.  This web site offers a tool to assist people in making good choices along the trail and more importantly, before you even get there.

• A Legal Ride
Each Trail described on this web site has been researched thoroughly with the land management agency which owns or manages the property.  In most cases the agency has reviewed the description and will sometimes add their comments to the description for your information.
• Access
Each trail has complete, understandable written directions so that you can locate the trailhead for the ride.  In some cases there will be alternate directions offered when there are reasonable alternatives available.  Most directions are described from the center of the Salt Lake Valley as a convenience to our readers.  Interpretation from the reader's own home will be a simple matter thereafter.
• Trailhead
The trailhead is clearly described with all available amenities, such as rest rooms, camping opportunities and availability to necessities like gas and groceries.  As a convenience to our readers who have a recommended GPS device, the GPS coordinates for the trailhead are provided.  In many instances a picture of the trailhead is provided to permit the reader to recognize the place when they get there.
• Trail
Each trail is described with enough detail so that a visitor to the trail will feel comfortable in understanding what they will expect.  Most trails have pictures of the trail features that are both enjoyable and scenic.  As one reader put it: "I don't need a man to help me ride my ATV.  The trail description was enough to give my mother and I the confidence to ride it on our own"  A simple map is provided in each instance to permit a rider to understand the scope and direction of the ride.  These maps are not official topo maps or USGS maps.  However, reference to such detail maps is available in many trail descriptions.  The descriptions are offered in a friendly narrative with as much humor and first hand experience as possible to make the reading enjoyable. Another reader said this: "By the way, I so enjoy your writing style and your terrific bits of realism and humor that lend to easy reading.  I am an educator so I was quite impressed."
• Warnings
Difficult and dangerous elements of a trail will be described so that a beginner would be able to avoid getting into terrain that would be too difficult for their skills, or the experienced rider can avoid the dangerous pitfalls of the ATV sport.  Nothing like the experience of others to avoid hazards.  Our sport is not for the increase of revenue in local hospitals and mortuaries.  The safer we can ride, the longer we will enjoy our sport.
• Pertinent Ride Data
How long does this ride take? What are the high and low elevations?  What distance is traveled?  These are all important things to understand before you head out the door.  This can help you adequately prepare for the best and most enjoyable experience with your ATV.   Your experience may vary, but at least you have somewhat of an idea of what to expect. Forewarned is forearmed, hopefully.
• Sources
As evidence that all trails are legal and open, the source documents published by the land manager/owner are sited in each instance so that you can obtain such documents directly from the appropriate land agency/manager and be prepared to defend your position as long as you stay on the recommended trail.
• Up to date
The reason why this information is not published in hard copy or book form is so that our subscribers/readers always have the most up to date information possible.  When land managers close areas to ATVs it is easy to update a trail description and inform our readers of the change without them having to drive clear out to an area only to find that it was closed, due to fire, abuse, or a wilderness designation change.  Many of our readers assist in this effort by informing us of changes that have not previously come to our attention.  Your assistance in this regard will be valuable to us all.  While we would like to, we can offer no guarantee that a trail described will be open at the time that you may choose to use it.  We can only verify, that the trail described was open and legal for use on the day that we published it for review by our subscribers/readers.  Rule makers and mother nature are constantly at work, so your understanding of these uncontrollable forces is greatly appreciated.  We will remind you of this at the conclusion of each trail description in our disclaimer link.

Why Subscribe?
    A Subscription to Utah ATV Trails.com:

Will save you time researching legal places to ride.

Will increase your enjoyment of the sport with new places to ride.

Will appropriately prepare you for the trail based on the experiences of others.

Will save you money driving to places that are not open for OHV use.

May guide you to places where your skills are more appropriate for the terrain.

May improve your family experience in the great out doors.

May potentially save you fines, impoundment of your machines, and jail time.

What you get for your subscription

Your subscription will enable you to review and print over 5 dozen trails in Utah.  Additional trails will be added as the opportunity permits.

You will have the confidence of knowing enough about your destination to plan and have an enjoyable legal ride.

You will be granted 48 accesses to the preimum content of the web site within one year.

We don't recommend that you share your userid and password.  If you choose to share your userid and password with others, each visit by anyone using your username and password will count toward your permitted access total.

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