Sidestep South

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.6 miles
Difficulty: Strenuous
Skill level:
Elevation: 4812 - 4941 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Klondike Bluffs
Fee: none
Attractions: Alternate singletrack route

The Sidestep South trail is located in the Klondike Bluffs Mountain Biking Area north of Moab, Utah. The trail provides an alternate singletrack route to the main doubletrack Baby Steps South trail. The Sidestep North trail serves a similar function on the north side of the main route. The lower end of the trail connects to the Baby Steps South trail just above its intersection with the EKG trail. The upper end of the trail comes out on a ridge where it connects to the Baby Steps South Singletrack trail.

Baby Steps South Singletrack

Rating: 
One-way Distance: 1.3 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill level:
Elevation: 4870 - 4967 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Klondike Bluffs
Fee: none
Attractions: Alternate route, dinosaur tracks

The Baby Steps South Singletrack trail is located in the Klondike Bluffs Mountain Biking Area north of Moab, Utah. The trail provides an alternate 1 mile route of singletrack to the Baby Steps Loop where that trail currently follows the old doubletrack jeep road. Another section of similar singletrack was added just to the north and it has already been included in the post for the Baby Steps Loop on this site. For this post we extended the Baby Steps South Singletrack all the way over to the Klondike Bluff Road in order to include some very nice dinosaur tracks that are often missed.

Inside Passage

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.8 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill level: 
Elevation: 4628 - 4677 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 15 mins.
Trailhead: Klondike Bluffs
Fee: none
Attractions: Handy connector

The Inside Passage trail is located in the Klondike Bluffs Mountain Biking Area north of Moab, Utah. The trail provides an alternate route from the Klondike Bluffs main trailhead that bypasses the sandy wash that the Klondike Buff Road travels through. Following the Klondike theme for naming trails the Inside Passage refers to the sea route through the Pacific coastal islands between Washington state and Alaska.

Malachite

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 1.6 miles
Difficulty: Moderate +
Skill level:
Elevation: 4774 - 4918 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 45 mins.
Trailhead: Klondike Bluffs
Fee: none
Attractions: Scenic singletrack

The Malachite trail is located in the Klondike Bluffs Mountain Biking Area north of Moab, Utah. The trail makes a connection between the Miners Loop and the Baby Steps South Singletrack trails. The Azurite trail intersects the Malachite near the north end of the trail. The Malachite and Azurite trails are among a half dozen or so recent additions to the Klondike Bluffs trail system.