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The Tailrace Camp area features three campsites with fire rings and a vault toilet. This campground is wedged between Fontenelle Reservoir and Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, and so makes a fantastic site for birding, fishing, or non-motorized water sports. Historically...
The two canyons which characterize this WSA, the head of Mule Canyon and the head of the North Fork of Mule Canyon, trend southeast. The walls of the canyon are alternating layers of red and white sandstone. The canyons cut...
From a junction with McKay Creek Trail, this trail descends gradually from a ridge top through forest and meadows into the Nome Creek drainage. It crosses the creek before ending at Nome Creek Road and the Bear Creek Trail.
Westwater Canyon River permits will be available on recreation.gov. Westwater Canyon is one of the premier whitewater river trips in the west. Trips range from one to two days and beautiful designated campsites are available in the canyon. Depending on...
Overview: The Bloody Shins Trail System offers dozens of multi-use trails for mountain biking, horseback riding, and hiking within convenient access from the neighborhoods of Winnemucca, Nevada. Camping: There are no designated campsites, but visitors can overnight RVs and trailers...
Government Trail is a popular access route into Grand Gulch. The 3.6 mile trail to the junction with Grand Gulch is easy to moderately difficult. Grand Gulch is a popular area for hiking and backpacking to see Ancestral Puebloan cliff...
Kane Gulch is a tributary and popular access route into Grand Gulch that starts from Kane Gulch Ranger Station. An easy to moderately difficult trail gradually descends for four miles to the junction with Grand Gulch. At this intersection, you...
This WSA is a complex of fragments of the Dark Canyon Plateau and seven deep, meandering canyons that drain into Cataract Canyon of the Colorado River, northwest of the WSA. An unusual feature in the Canyonlands country is the 10...
This road (combined with Skyline Drive) is approximately 17 miles long and accesses BLM, Forest Service, and private lands. White Pine Ski Resort, Fremont Lake, the CCC Ponds, Halfmoon Lake, and Elkhart Park Trailhead are all accessed by this scenic...
The Silver State Trail takes you through unique and spectacular backcountry in Nevada. You can take your quad, your dirtbike or any other kind of Off-road Vehicle. The trail is hundreds of miles of designated OHV trails, making it the...
Betty's Kitchen is a wildlife interpretive area along the Colorado River just upstream of Laguna Dam. Heavy vegetation and access to water attracts herons, songbirds, waterfowl, and egrets.
Zapata Falls is a waterfall located in the San Luis Valley near the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on Bureau of Land Management land adjacent to Rio Grande National Forest and south of Great Sand Dunes National Park...
This viewing area comprises privately owned fields surrounded by BLM public lands. The BLM lands are primarily piсon-juniper hillsides with scattered patches of Gambel's oak. A small willow-lined stream bisects the area.
The lower stretch of the Dolores River offers technical rapids, stunning scenery, wildlife viewing, side-canyon hiking, and great camping. A free permit is required. Groups must read and adhere to all stipulations of the permit. Call the Moab Field Office...
The Powderhorn Wilderness totals 62,050 acres and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. All of the wilderness area is located in Colorado. In 1993, the Powderhorn Wilderness became part of the now over...
Fish and Owl Creeks both cut diagonally across the eastern edge of Cedar Mesa, coming together several miles before they enter Comb Wash. They are both deep canyons, quite narrow, with an abundance of scenic beauty. Erosion from Fish and...
Centennial MountainsThis 28,000-acre mountain range, which forms the boundary between southwest Montana and Idaho, is some of southwest Montana’s wildest country. It is considered an important corridor for wildlife movement, providing an east-west trending mountain range connecting the Yellowstone Ecosystem...
The Whole Enchilada is an Iconic Moab Trail. Typically run as a downhill ride, this trail runs from Burro Pass on the Manti LaSal National Forest at 11,200 feet 26.5 miles to the Colorado River at 4000 feet…over 7000 feet...
The Price Field Office (PFO) is located at the northwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau--the gateway to the red-rock country and the San Rafael Swell. The Swell has been described as the jagged remains of a dinosaur backbone, an exposed...
You will find a quiet picnic and camping recreation site surrounded by rocky ledges along the northeast side of Coffeepot Lake. More than 900 acres bordering the lake are managed for wildlife habitat as well as recreational opportunities. Activities include...
Pacific Lake Recreation Site is located 1/3-mile east of the historic Lakeview Ranch barn and corrals. The recreation site provides three quiet picnic and/or camping sites (each with picnic table and fire ring) in a shrub-steppe ecosystem, and with views...
Chukar pair scrambling across the Snake River-Mormon Basin Back Country Byway.
Explore the rangelands and immerse yourself in the pastoral settings of eastern Oregon’s Baker and Malheur counties along the 150-mile Snake River-Mormon Basin Back Country Byway. This byway offers a variety of bucolic rural and backcountry travelling options for your...
Snowy Red Marble Road in the North Huckleberry Mountains
The North Huckleberry Mountains are checkerboard BLM timber lands popular especially for wildlife viewing, dispersed camping, hunting, and driving for pleasure. Some visitors explore as a side trip when visiting nearby Waitts Lake or Chewelah. Public access is via low...
Overlooking the Rattlesnake Canyon Campground along the Lower Deschutes River Back Country Byway
Located at the mouth of its namesake canyon and along the scenic Lower Deschutes River Back Country Byway, Rattlesnake Canyon Campground is located 20.4 miles north of the city of Maupin, Oregon. Several campsites in the campground offer direct river...
Within BLM’s Rock Creek Management Area, Rock Creek flows through Channeled Scablands, formed approximately 12,000 years ago by massive Glacial Lake Missoula floods. Striking landscapes and geologic features including buttes, mesas, and columnar basalt outcrops enhance the beauty of perennial...
Set on the western edge of the year-round Millican Plateau OHV Area, this small, roadside staging area offers picnic tables, fire rings and a portable toilet. Access to Trails 17 and 83 is available here, but with connecting trail loops...
Featuring riverside campsites and a steep, primitive boat launch this cozy campground is a little bit away from the summertime busyness of nearby Maupin. One campsite offers limited shade so you’ll have to bring your own for the other sites...
Ouray Valley Recreation Area boasts a multitude of scenic and recreational opportunities. Located along the Green River between Vernal and Roosevelt, explore the landscapes John Wesley Powell eloquently described 150 years ago. From hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding to...
Landscape view with petroglyphs at Gold Butte National Monument.
Inside the rugged 296,937-acre Gold Butte National Monument is an extraordinary variety of pre-historic, historic, geological, and biological treasures. The landscape reveals the story of human habitation over thousands of years, from the rock stories carved by ancient indigenous people...
Set on the eastern edge of the year-round Millican Plateau OHV Area, this small, roadside play area offers a 1-acre play area with nearby picnic tables. The site also serves as a staging area for exploration on adjacent OHV Trails...
Overview This Campground is on a First Come - First Serve Basis, vistors are required to physically be at the campground to purchase and claim a site. You must also occupy the area the day you pay for it, no...
Located at the far southwestern corner of the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area, the Threemile Creek Trail is a moderate hike with an elevation gain of 1,516 feet. The Steens area encompasses an extraordinary landscape with deep glacier...
Nestled in Southern Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, the Buck Prairie Nordic Trail System offers 32.8 miles of connected trails for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling. Snow tubers and sledders will find additional adventures in gravity at the sled hill located...
Overview Pyramid Ridge Campground sits at just over 6,000 feet above sea level and looks out to a backdrop of the red rock pyramids along the Hurricane Cliffs. This campground gives visitors a remote and backcountry feel while only being...
Overview This Campground is on a First Come - First Serve Basis, vistors are required to physically be at the campground to purchase and claim a site. You must also occupy the area the day you pay for it, no...
Overview The North Klondike Campground is a mountain biker's paradise with campsites situated a short bike ride away from the North Klondike trail system. You will also find yourself camped within easy reach of other world renowned Moab mountain bike...
Imagine the discoveries you will make as you explore Alaska's natural world with the BLM Campbell Creek Science Center. Situated on the BLM Campbell Tract, which covers over 700 acres of boreal forest in the heart of Anchorage, Alaska, the...
Flat Top-Peach Valley is an upland desert landscape within Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area. It is most popular for mountain biking and off-highway vehicle use, and enthusiasts can enjoy a variety of routes The area features two off-highway vehicle play...
North of Highway 20, on the eastern edge of Lake County, the Indian Valley/Walker Ridge Recreation Area area offers an abundance of recreational possibilities. Rolling chaparral covered hills dotted with oak and pine make an ideal setting for hunting, camping...
Overview The Joseph T. Fallini Campground, situated on the banks of the Mackay Reservoir, is the only recreational site in Challis Field Office that offers full RV hookups and features a diversity of other facilities. This scenic area has a...