Fruita, CO
18 Road Trails & Kokopelli
Fruita runs on two trail systems that couldn't feel more different, ten minutes apart. The 18 Road Trails are flow country: rollers, berms and tabletops cut into the high desert north of town, the kind of trail that turns a warm-up lap into a two-hour ride. Kokopelli, out toward the Colorado River, is the opposite: ledges, slickrock and exposure above the water, with views that stop the conversation mid-sentence. Ride Kokopelli one day, 18 Road the next, and you've done the classic Fruita weekend.
250+ miles across 18 Road and Kokopelli in the North Fruita Desert
Flow-built berms and tabletops at 18 Road, ledges and slickrock at Kokopelli
Peak Season: March to May and September to November
No lift. Fire road and singletrack climbing
Grand Junction (GJT) 20min / Denver 4:15
Why We Love Fruita
18 Road asks for flow. Kokopelli asks for nerve. Ride both in one weekend and you'll get why this whole town is obsessed.
Our Top Trails To Ride in Fruita
Nothing here charges you at the gate, which is exactly why it's worth treating well. 18 Road sits on BLM land in the North Fruita Desert; camping at the trailhead runs a small nightly fee, and riding itself is free. Kokopelli is inside the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area, also free to ride, with a large trailhead lot about ten minutes west of town. Summer heat is serious out here, so spring and fall are the seasons, and an early start matters any time of year. Trails turn to peanut butter mud when wet and take real damage, so give them a day or two to dry out after rain. Download a map in town before you drive out to either system.
One of the trails that made this system's name. Ridgeline flow with a view of the Book Cliffs the whole way.
Longer than most of the system and more exciting than the name suggests. What goes up comes back down fast.
The classic Kokopelli combination, ending at a bench of slickrock above the Colorado River that's worth the ride on its own.
Advanced, exposed, and it hands you one of the best views in the whole system for the effort.
Get To Know
Get To Know
BLM & Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association
COPMOBA is the reason these trails hold up season after season. The Bureau of Land Management manages both 18 Road and Kokopelli, with COPMOBA, the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association, doing the volunteer trail work that keeps the systems in the shape riders travel here for. Neither system charges at the gate, so a COPMOBA membership or a volunteer trail day is the direct way to put something back.
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