Montana Trail Vehicle Riders Association

07/31/2026

The USFS Bozeman Ranger District had a long list of trail maintenance projects for 2026. Through MTVRA’s annual mechanized trail maintenance program, we were able to supply a highly skilled contractor with the requisite equipment to assist the Bozeman RD for most of the month of July. A combination of Sweco dozer and mini excavator work has helped repair tread work, add turn-outs, rolling dips, correct drainage, and make for a more sustainable future design. Some of the areas improved include Little Bear / Big Bear, Telephone Ridge, Rat Lake, Hood Creek, and several more.

This annual mechanized trial maintenance program has been a successful partnership between MTVRA and the Custer Gallatin National Forest for the past several years. Expansion over the past few years has resulted in more actual trail maintenance being accomplished annually in the area.

07/22/2026

MTVRA partnered with the Hebgen Lake Ranger District of the Custer Gallatin National Forest on some much needed trail maintenance around the Cinnamon Mtn area for a couple weeks in late June / early July.

07/04/2026

Just in time for the 4th of July. The last 3 weeks have been spent repairing trails in the Dillon Ranger District of Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. This mechanized maintenance project in partnership with Region 1 USFS started on June 15th and wrapped up on July 2nd. General trail reconditioning to repair tread........ ruts...... washouts…… correcting drainage……… correcting off-camber portions........ adding rolling dips as needed.

06/26/2026

Singletrack maintenance in the Big Belts (Helena area) over the past couple weeks. This was a joint partnership effort between Montana Trail Vehicle Riders Association, Great Falls Trail Bike Riders Association, and Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest (Helena RD).

USFS Helena RD was in charge of the project. MTVRA provided the contractor with the mini-excavator. GFTBRA's Helena sawyer trail crew provided the grunt work.

06/18/2026

MTVRA again partnered with the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Helena Ranger District to complete an additional couple weeks of much needed trail maintenance in the Big Belt Mtns. Trail maintenance these couple weeks were mainly in the area to the east of Canyon Ferry Lake (Hellgate / Carpenter / Hunter / Magpie).

06/11/2026

MTVRA have been able to expand the Mechanized Trail Maintenance program over the past few years to help cover additional public OHV trails throughout Montana. With additional contractors, comes additional skill sets and equipment. One of our newer contractors specializes in single-track trail maintenance with his mini-ex. He just completed a few weeks of single-track trail maintenance in direct partnership with both Bureau of Land Management - Montana/Dakotas and Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, with an additional 10+ weeks scheduled during the rest of the summer riding season.

Before anyone comments that the photos "don't look like single-track", give it some time to settle in. Vegetation will grow in on the edges and it will look like a ST trail again. Our contractor uses the smallest machine possible to rehab single-track areas and has 10+ years experience doing this type of trail maintenance.

05/31/2026

MTVRA partnered with the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Helena Ranger District to complete some much needed trail maintenance over the past couple of weeks in the Big Belt Mtns. Everything was officially supervised by a few of the local residents in the last photo.

05/28/2026

𝐀𝐌𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐧𝐬 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐚, 𝐔𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐕𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬

The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) strongly condemns a recent act of apparent trail sabotage at Montana’s Pipestone Recreation Area, where a child encountered barbed wire strung across a public access trail during Memorial Day weekend. The AMA is calling for the swift identification, apprehension and prosecution of those responsible.

For more information, visit https://americanmotorcyclist.com/ama-condemns-apparent-trail-sabotage-incident-in-montana/.

05/27/2026

Very disturbing news from Pipestone. Please contact the BLM or Jefferson County Sheriff's office with any tips.

“If you're moving at a slight rate of speed, with a little bit of momentum, and have a piece of barbed wire go across your neck, it’s basically a bandsaw..."
Full story, video in comments

05/15/2026

The last 2 weeks saw MTVRA partner with the BLM Billings office of Bureau of Land Management - Montana/Dakotas on trail maintenance projects in the Sykes Ridge area. Tread repair, rolling dip repair and construction, trees trimmed back as needed.