ATV-Regeln & Sicherheit

Absolvieren Sie die Fahrerschulung vor der Reise

ATV- und Side-by-Side-Fahrer benötigen für Fahrten auf öffentlichem Land den passenden OHV-Schulungsnachweis von Utah. Das gilt auch für Besucher und Mietkunden. Die Fahrzeug-Genehmigung ersetzt den Nachweis des Fahrers nicht.

Der Onlinekurs für Erwachsene ist kostenlos. Fahrer unter 18 Jahren absolvieren einen separaten Jugendkurs. Laut Utah bleibt ein bereits erworbener, anerkannter Jugendnachweis lebenslang gültig; seine Inhaber brauchen den Erwachsenenkurs nicht zu machen. Speichern Sie Ihren Nachweis vor der Abreise und prüfen Sie die offiziellen Anforderungen für Ihr Fahrzeug sowie mögliche Ausnahmen.

OHV-Schulungsanforderungen und Kurse in Utah

Riding through the village and crossing SR-14

Duck Creek Village's streets are Kane County roads, and Kane County Code Title 5, Chapter 1 opens county roads to OHVs "as posted by signs or designated by map." In practice that means the village streets are OHV routes (they are spurs 52 and 59 of the Strawberry Loop on the Forest Service map), ridden at 15 mph, and treated as transit to and from the trails rather than a place to ride laps. Residential streets are for getting through, not for practice.

If your machine is not street-legal

You may cross SR-14 but not ride along it. Utah Code 41-22-10.3 spells out how: come to a full stop, yield to every vehicle on the highway, then cross at a right angle to the road. Every one of our featured rides crosses the highway at least once (the Strawberry Loop crosses near the east edge of Duck Lake) and none of them requires riding along it.

If your machine is street-legal

A plated, street-legal OHV may ride SR-14. Utah Code 41-6a-1509 allows street-legal ATVs and side-by-sides on state highways outside first-class counties, and neither Kane nor Iron County is first class. The limit is 50 mph or the posted speed, whichever is lower, and where the posted limit is above 50 you keep to the extreme right of the roadway. That is what makes Panguitch Lake reachable by trail from the village: the last 1.7 miles are on SR-143 and only a street-legal machine may finish them.

Rental machines are generally not street-legal. Ask the shop, and assume you are crossing, not riding, the highway unless they tell you otherwise.

Where you may ride

Dixie National Forest prohibits cross-country motorized travel forest-wide. You ride the numbered routes, their spurs and the open forest roads shown on the current Motor Vehicle Use Map, and nothing else: no meadows, no streambanks, no cut-across lines between two roads you can both see. That is where the citations are written and where the damage shows for years. Our loop-by-loop trails page lists every designated spur.

Campgrounds and lakes

• Duck Creek Campground: loops A and B are closed to OHVs; loops C, D and E allow OHVs for ingress and egress to your own site only.
• Navajo Lake: the lake shore and the campground loops are closed to OHV travel except campground ingress and egress. OHVs reach the Cascade Falls trailhead and Navajo Lake Road; there is no shoreline loop.
• Cascade Falls: spur 51 ends at the trailhead. The falls trail itself (#32055) is hiking only, about 0.8 miles one way.
• Cedar Breaks National Monument: no OHV trails. In winter, snowmobiles may use only the marked groomed SR-148 route through the monument.

Seasonal orders and fire restrictions

Forest orders come and go with the season; the spring mud closure on the Duck Creek trails is an annual event, and fire restrictions tighten and loosen with the weather. This is the 2026 record as of September 2026. Before you ride, check the Dixie National Forest alerts page and our road conditions page.