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Map & Downloads

Markagunt OHV Trail Map, Planner & Downloads

Every designated trail, forest road, and numbered marker on the plateau, traced from the official 2019 Forest Service map, with a route planner and the files to take with you.

This map shows the whole Markagunt OHV System as the Forest Service published it: the orange Forest Service 4x4 routes, the narrower OHV routes, the open forest roads that tie them together, the 121 numbered fiberglass trail markers with their difficulty symbols, and the viewpoints and campgrounds along the way. Our eight featured rides are drawn on top so you can see how they leave the inn, and the planner will find the shortest legal way between any two points, crossing the highway only where it has to.

The lines were traced from the official 2019 Markagunt OHV System map (georeferenced to within about 20 m) and the numbers are read off the same sheet. It is a planning tool, not the legal document: the Cedar City Ranger District Motor Vehicle Use Map governs which routes are open to which vehicles and when, and a gate or closure sign on the ground overrides everything here.

Interactive map & route planner

Turn layers on and off with the chips, tap any marker or ride for details, and use the planner to route from the inn to a destination or between two taps on the map. Forest roads, trail numbers, and points appear as you zoom in. Want more room? Open the map full screen.

Legend

Routes

  • Forest Service 4x4 OHV route
  • OHV route, 72 inches or less
  • OHV only
  • Open forest road
  • Featured ride from the inn
  • Your planned route
  • Groomed snowmobile trail (winter)

Trail markers

  • Easy (green circle)
  • Intermediate (blue square)
  • Expert (black diamond)

One digit is a loop; two digits is a spur of that loop (52 branches off Loop 5).

Points

  • Duck Creek Village Inn
  • Fuel
  • ATV and UTV rentals
  • Destination or trailhead
  • Viewpoint
  • Campground or camp

Designated trails in amber, open forest roads in gray, featured rides in dark green. Trail positions are traced from the 2019 Forest Service map; segment trail numbers are inferred from marker positions and should be read as hints. Basemap by CARTO and OpenStreetMap.

Downloads

Take the official sheet and the legal map with you; cell service is patchy once you leave the village. The GPX tracks are the same geometry as the featured ride maps.

Official Markagunt OHV System map PDF, 7 MB. Dixie National Forest and Iron County, 2019 edition. The sheet the whole system is numbered from. Download PDF Cedar City Ranger District MVUM The Motor Vehicle Use Map is the legal record of which roads and trails are open to which vehicles and in which season. Free from the Forest Service. Open on fs.usda.gov Cedar Mountain Snowmobile Complex map Forest Service and Utah State Parks groomed-trail map: Duck Creek, Lars Fork, Navajo Lake, Strawberry Point, Cedar Breaks, and the rest of the winter system. Open on fs.usda.gov
Avenza and the FS Map Finder The Forest Service publishes its MVUMs as free georeferenced maps in the Avenza Maps store and through its own map finder. Loaded in Avenza, the MVUM shows your position on the legal map with no signal at all; the printable PDF above is for orientation and does not carry GPS.

GPX tracks for the featured rides

Eight rides, 195 miles between them, all starting and ending at the inn. Each file is a single track with the same points as the ride map.

Ride Miles Shape Trails
Aspen Mirror Lake & Duck Creek Pond 6.0 Loop 1 GPX
Strawberry Point Overlook 13.2 Out and back 1, 5 GPX
Cascade Falls & the Virgin River Rim 14.6 Out and back 51, 1 GPX
Henrie Knolls & Lava Flat 22.4 Out and back 4 GPX
Strawberry Loop (Trail 5) 22.8 Loop 1, 5 GPX
Stout Ridge to the Pink Cliffs 35.7 Out and back 1, 65, 73 GPX
Harris Rim & Swains Creek 36.6 Loop 68, 61, 67, 6, 66 GPX
Mammoth Cave & the Tommy Creek Loop 43.6 Loop 46, 4 GPX

How to load a GPX

A GPX file is just a list of points. Every mapping app can import one; the steps below cover the four we see most on the trailer lot. Whatever you use, download the offline map tiles for the plateau before you leave the village.

  1. onX Offroad

    Save the .gpx to your phone, then in onX Offroad open My Content, choose Import, and pick the file. The ride appears under your tracks; download the offline map for the Markagunt Plateau before you leave the village, because signal drops fast past Aspen Mirror Lake.

  2. Gaia GPS

    Use the plus button and Import File, or drag the file onto gaiagps.com and let it sync to the app. Save an offline layer for the area around Duck Creek Village and switch the base map to a topo layer so the rim edges read clearly.

  3. Avenza Maps

    Search the Avenza Map Store for the Cedar City Ranger District Motor Vehicle Use Map (free), open it, then import the .gpx through the map layers menu. The ride then draws on top of the legal designations, which is the best way to check yourself against the MVUM.

  4. Garmin

    Connect the unit over USB and copy the .gpx into the Garmin/GPX folder, or send it with Garmin Explore or BaseCamp. It shows up under Tracks or Saved Routes. Set the unit to record your own track too; it is the easiest way to backtrack if a spur dead-ends.

Reading the map

Route classes

  • Forest Service 4x4 OHV route (orange on the official sheet, solid amber here). Open to full-size high-clearance vehicles and OHVs.
  • OHV route, 72 inches or less (yellow on the sheet, dashed amber here). Built for machines up to 72 inches wide; trucks and Jeeps do not fit.
  • OHV only (dashed yellow on the sheet, fine dashes here). Short connectors where only OHVs are allowed, some posted at 50 inches.
  • Open forest road (gray). Roads open to all vehicles, including licensed cars; OHVs may ride them.
  • Highway (SR-14, US-89, SR-143, drawn by the basemap). Non-street-legal machines may only cross: stop, yield, and cross at a right angle. Street-legal OHVs may ride SR-14 under Utah Code 41-6a-1509.

Marker numbers and difficulty

The fiberglass posts at junctions carry the trail number. A single digit is one of the seven main loops (Trail 5 is the Strawberry Loop, Trail 4 the Tommy Creek Loop). Two digits mark a spur, and the first digit tells you which loop it belongs to: spur 52 runs through Duck Creek Village to Trail 5, spur 46 leaves Trail 4 for Mammoth Cave.

  • Green circle: easy. Graded roads and wide trails; the family rides around the village.
  • Blue square: intermediate. Rockier or narrower, with some climbing.
  • Black diamond: expert. Only six markers on the whole system, including 57, the Zion View Connector near Lars Fork.

Width and weight

Forest Order 0407-22-15 limits MVUM-designated trails to machines 72 inches wide and 2,500 pounds or less through 2027. Some trails are posted narrower at 50 inches, and the roughly two miles of OHV-only trail on Trail 1 carry a 62-inch limit. Nothing else on the system is a "62-inch trail" despite what rental brochures sometimes say. If your side-by-side is wider than 72 inches, you are limited to the open forest roads.

Stay on the route

Cross-country motorized travel is prohibited forest-wide on the Dixie. If a track is not on the MVUM, it is closed, even if it looks well used. Seasonal roads on the MVUM are open May 1 to November 30; the Forest Service also posts wet-weather closures in spring and occasional repair closures in summer, so check the Markagunt OHV System page before a trip. Navajo Lake's shoreline and campground loops are closed to OHVs except for reaching a campsite.

Emergency numbers

From the official map. Cell coverage is best near the highway and on the rims; in Lars Fork, Swains Creek, and the Tommy Creek country expect none. Tell someone at the inn where you are headed and when you expect to be back.

For permits, helmets, and the highway rules in full, see Utah OHV rules and safety for Duck Creek riders.

September 2026

Where this map comes from

The trail network, marker numbers, difficulty symbols, and points of interest were traced from the Forest Service and Iron County Markagunt OHV System map (2019) and checked against OpenStreetMap highway junctions. Ride mileages are computed over that network, not recorded with a GPS. Route classes, the width order, and the no-cross-country rule are taken from Dixie National Forest publications and the Cedar City Ranger District MVUM; highway crossing rules are from Utah Code 41-6a-1509.

Stage your ride from the inn

Truck and trailer parking on site, four rental shops on the same main street, and Trail 5 a mile from the front door. Rooms and cabins for riding groups.

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