Here is the official geotagged trail map for this area, fseprd546375.pdf - which is a bit difficult to find from navigating the official websites:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DO ... 546375.pdf
You can open this on Avenza Maps on Android or iPhone and it will show your current GPS location when you are within the map boundaries.
I have GPX and KML files of the trail system as well if you use a more advanced GPS app.
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All of the official trails are 2-way 50-inch OHV trails. There are some extensive single tracks, although they are illegal.
When camping, we usually primitive camp at the Long Ridge Trailhead area, as more bikes go there and it is a bit less frequently visited versus the Dorr Run area trailheads.
Long Ridge doesn't officially directly connect but is directly adjacent to the Dorr Run area, and you can ride the blue marked Cawthorne Trail to the paved road (Carbon Hill - Buchtel Rd?) & Ride the pavement at 35 mph maximum up to the MonDay Creek Trailhead entrance, and hang a left on the main Corridor Trail and take that and or the snake Hollow Trail which crisscrosses it, across another paved road, and then into the Dorr Run trail area where the most flowing sections of trail are. The outer Dorr Run Loop is quite a long trail, and loops the whole area. Stay on this and get familiar with the area and you will have a blast. We always detour off of it to hit the Purdum Loop, which is where that high up Rocky outcrop area in the photos is, although that one is sort of an extension at the beginning or end of what they call the Purdum Loop. That's a real fun 2 minute climb up to that spot if you go the right direction and catch it uphill westbound where the CCC trail dead ends into it. If you're not looking at the maps you would probably just continue on CCC by default. There's also a seasonal waterfall / cliff area on the very edge of the national forest property on the map where you see the purdum trail crosses a creek on the far left side adjacent to where the pertum connector shortcut trail goes across. Skip the shortcut connector and do the long Loop and the Deer Stand Loop. We hit the second intersection of the Deer Stand Loop and run it back and end up 100ft prior to that & continue on, it's a little more fun that direction.
My other favorites are the goat Trail portion of the 1985 Trail off of the Dorr Run Loop near the Scarlet Oak Trailhead. You'll miss it if you aren't watching out, as the trail starts out as just an oil and gas access road, then on the right side, a narrow goat path cuts off. We Run The goat path section both in and out. It comes up to a cleared out 50 ft circular area with another Trail of the same name running to the back. That one loops a really big hill climb that's always fun at the end, we go straight up the hill but you can also go to the left and end up running it backwards of that.
Long Ridge doesn't have much in the way of mildly banked turns like the Dorr Run area has, but is also good fun and is where all the hard enduro guys & racers go to partake in illegal riding activities...
Dorr Run area Mineshaft Trail, Timber Road Trail, and Paramount Loop are begginner friendly trails. When the place has been recently groomed, nearly everything qualifies as a beginner trail although some are steeper and more winding. Long Ridge gets less frequent maintenance, and when it gets typical ATV left&right track ruts in the steeper sections, the steep hills can be very intimidating for beginner riders due to the steepness and slightly rough nature.
This area is a lot of fun for all skill levels.
If you want steeper trails, plan a couple extra days in Ohio and hit Pike State Forest southwest of there, and for legal single tracks and legal off trail riding, and a lot of hard enduro, go explore all of the user defined trails at Perry State Forest. A lot of the Hard Enduro guys will Mark out their favorite single track lines with 1-inch high vis. ribbon tape on tree branches etc. Only use the official trails to get to the good stuff, most (but not all) of the official trails aren't anything special, as this was an old strip mined area. The former strip mining nature means they left behind a lot of what they call High walls, very steep hills at the edge of where they excavated for strip mining. Hill climbers paradise basically. All the videos you'll find on YouTube are mostly of hill climbs at Perry. You basically just want to go to this area and record your GPS tracks and explore all day on every single track and hill climb that you find.
Here's Dusty (left, #56) & I right before our hare scramble at AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days 2023, Dusty is the one who thought up this KDX meetup @ WNF:
