There are some fun ATV trails to ride at the San Juan National Forest. Wolf Creek is just 9-miles west of Wolf Creek Pass and leads to Wolf Creek Campground. After a day of riding your ATVs, enjoy the camping areas and if you brought your fishing license, have a great time casting your line into one of the two stocked fishing ponds that are located directly behind the campground.
West Fork Trailhead is also known as Rainbow Lake Trail and is a lightly used trail. The first portion of this trail passes through private property. Be sure to stay only on the marked trail and leave everything as you found it.
East Fork Campground contains some fun ATVing. The trailheads for Coal Creek and Quartz Ridge are nearby and the Elwood Pass trailhead is also very near here. Blanco Basin has three nearby trails that access the unroaded country and go towards the east. The Navajo Peak Trail and V-Rock Trail can be reached from the Buckles Lake Road (FDR 663), about seven miles south of the campground via Highway 84. The Blanco Basin Road (FDR 657) accesses the Leche Creek Trail. These trails intersect with several entry/ exit points. Because these trails are narrow with room for only one ATV, be sure to make note of the turnaround points so you know when and where to turn your ATV around and head back to camp.
The Chimney Rock Archaeological Area is four miles from the Ute campground. Pull your ATV over and enjoy a guided tour that will show you a large pueblo that was built nearly 1,000-years ago. La Plata means "silver," and over the years these mountains have yielded quite a lot of that. When you ride the trails in this area, you are bound to see abandoned mines. Never enter a mine. There are gases that can kill you in many of these old mines. View them from the trail for greatest safety.
Enjoy your ATV trailride through San Juan National Forest!
