Find places to ride with your horse throughout Southwest and Central Idaho.
Boise Back Country Horsemen has assembled trail maps, trailhead locations, riding distances, horse-camping information, and links to land-management agencies.

Before you ride: Trail conditions, closures, access rules, and horse facilities can change. Always check current conditions with the appropriate land-management agency before leaving home. Remember, trails may have obstacles prohibiting or slowing your progress, due to environmental issues.

Riding Area	Go to Trails
Treasure Valley / Boise Foothills	Eagle, Boise, Kuna, Melba, Emmett, Lucky Peak
Idaho City	Woop-Um-Up, Jennie Lake, Skeleton Creek, Johnson Creek
Lowman / Bear Valley	Bernard Lake, Camptender, Fir Creek, Bull Trout
Cascade / McCall	Kennally Creek, Yellow Jacket, Tripod
Stanley / Sawtooths / White Clouds	Tin Cup, Grandjean, Fourth of July, Lola Creek
Mountain Home / Soldier Mountains	Willow Creek, Bear Creek, Hunter Creek
Owyhee Mountains	Wilson Creek, Little Jacks Creek, Diamond Basin
Other Idaho Areas	Hells Canyon, Moscow, Southeast Idaho
Idaho Centennial Trail	Nevada-to-Canada sections
Idaho State Parks	Horse-friendly state parks

A list of Equine trails below are continually growing.

Eventually, each important riding location will have six to eight pieces of information:

For example:

Woop-Um-Up Horse Camp & Trails
📍 Idaho City / Lowman area
🐴 Horse trailer parking: Yes, room for eight rigs at sites
🏕️ Camping: $$ six sites, no reservations
🐎 Corrals: Yes, centrally located, high-lining available at some sites
💧 Water: Streams, hand pump
🚻 Amenities: Restroom, Mounting block, Feed Bunkers
🥾 Rides: Several loop options, easy to moderate
🗺️ Trail Map | Driving Directions | USFS

Treasure Valley & Boise Foothills

Boise Foothills

Orchard Gulch
Corrals Loop
Hawkins Range
Ridge to Rivers equestrian trails

Eagle

Eagle Island
Little Gulch
North Eagle Foothills

Kuna / Melba

Kuna Butte
Swan Falls
Celebration Park

Lucky Peak / Blacks Creek

Dead Dog
Cottonwood
Bonneville Point
Grouse Creek
Deadman Cow
Willow Creek

Idaho City / Loman

Cowboy Campground
📍 Idaho City
🐴 Horse trailer parking: Yes, room for rigs at sites
🏕️ Camping: $$$ sites
🐎 Corrals: Yes, at sites
💧 Water: at most sites
🚻 Amenities: Restroom, Picnic Tables, Fire Rings,
🥾 Rides: Several loop options, easy
🗺️ Trail Map | Driving Directions | Web Site

Woop-Um-Up Horse Camp & Trails
📍 Idaho City / Lowman area
🐴 Horse trailer parking: Yes, room for eight rigs at sites
🏕️ Camping: $$ six sites, no reservations
🐎 Corrals: Yes, centrally located, high-lining available at some sites
💧 Water: Streams, hand pump
🚻 Amenities: Restroom, Mounting Block, Picnic Tables, Fire Rings, Feed Bunkers
🥾 Rides: Several loop options, easy to moderate
🗺️ Trail Map | Driving Directions | USFS

Owyhee mountains

Wilson Creek
📍Marsing
🐴 Horse trailer parking: Yes (weekends are busy with hikers and bikers)
🏕️ Camping: no reservations, discouraged
🐎 Corrals: None, Tie to trailer only
💧 Water: none
🚻 Amenities: Restroom
🥾 Rides: Several loop options, easy to moderate
🗺️ Trail Map | Driving Directions | BLM

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Atlanta

Spangle Lake Trail Power Plant Campground (USFS Info) (TH MAP)
Queens River Transfer Camp (USF S Info) (TH MAP)
- Trail with many side trips

Cascade/McCall

Ola/Sweet – Wilson Corrals/Gabe’s Peak (12mi Loop) (TH MAP)
Read Ranch(TH MAP) (North of Warm Lake)
- Camp Creek Trailhead (16 mile Loop)
Kennally Creek Campground (TH MAP)
- Vicks and Fogg Lake Trail (10mi)
- Patty Flat Guard Station (5mi)
Yellow Jacket TH and camp ground (TH MAP)
- Yellow Jacket (15mi loop)( Stole Meadows, South of Warm Lake)
- Rice Peak LO Trail (aka Telephone Ridge)(7mi)
Tripod Lookout (aka West Mtn. South TH) (6mi) (TH MAP) (between Sage Hen Reservoir & Smiths Ferry)
Hells Canyon/Seven Devils Windy Saddle Horse Camp (West of Riggins)(TH MAP)
- Shelf Lake Feather Creek
- Canyon Lakes
- Sheep Creek Loop

Idaho City

Cowboy Campground at Legacy Park(TH MAP)
- These trails are now closed to the public..
  - 3 mile Loop
  - 6 mile Loop
  - 9 Mile Loop
- Contact campground for new information
Airport Loop(TH MAP)
Haga Creek(5mi) and Sheep Creek(5mi)(TH MAP)
Meadow Creek Sheep Camp (13mi)(TH MAP)
Woop_Um_Up Loops – between Loman and Idaho City on ID 21 (TH MAP)
Bald Mountain Campground (TH MAP)
Jennie Lake (4mi)(TH MAP)
Bear River (aka Rabbit Creek) (TH MAP) Camping near Jennie Lake TH
Skeleton Creek (aka Narrow Canyon Trail) (10mi) (TH MAP)
Johnson Creek CG (TH MAP)
- Dear Park Cabin Loop (aka North Fork Trail)(19mi)
- Swanholm Peak Loop (16mi)
- Tackobe Mtn Loop (28mi)
New Centerville (TH MAP)
Placerville (TH MAP)

Lowman

Bear Valley -Elk Creek Cow Camp area (TH MAP)
- Cow Camp (all Trails)
- Bernard Lake(9mi)
- Camptender Loop Trail(22mi)
- Tonja’s Meadow Loop(3mi)
- South Meadow Loop(3mi)
- Sulphur Creek Ranch Loop (28mi)
- BV Mtn Lookout (5mi)
- Lowman’s District Trail Maps

Bear Valley – Marsh Creek TH/Fir Creek Camp Ground area (TH MAP)
- Fir Creek CG to Middle Fork of Salmon(9mi RT)
- Fir Creek CG to Blue Bunch Mtn(9mi RT)

Red Mountain (North of Loman)(TH MAP)
Bull Trout (Kirkham Ridge Trailhead) (TH MAP)
Warm Springs Trailhead(aka Bull Trout)(TH MAP)
Ten Mile Creek(TH MAP)Nice camp ground, Corrals no longer present.
See Johnson Creek under Idaho City above

Stanley

White Clouds – 4th of July Trail Head (South of Stanley)(TH MAP)
- Chamberlain Basin(8mi)
- Born Lakes(8mi)
White Clouds – Big Bolder Creek Trail Head (South of Clayton) (TH MAP)
- Frog Lake (8mi)
  - Windy Devil (12mi)
White Clouds – Little Bolder Trail Head
- Frog Lake (8mi) (From E. Fork of Salmon)

Sawtooth – Pettit Lake/Tin Cup Trail Head (South of Stanley)(TH MAP)
Sawtooth – Imogene/Hell Roaring (9mi)(TH MAP)

Sawtooth – Grandjean (South-West of Stanley) (TH MAP)
- Grandjean To Stanly Lake (11mi)

Lola Creek Campground and TH (West of Stanley)(TH MAP)
- Lola Creek TH to Bluebunch TH(9mi)
- Lola Creek TH to Dagger Falls TH (14mi)

Mountain Home/Soldier Mountains

Willow Creek Transfer Camp (East of Featherville) ( TH MAP)
- Virginia Gulch Trail (8mi)
- River Trail to Bumgartner Hot Springs (6mi)
- Baumgartner Hot Springs to Hunter Creek Transfer Camp (20mi)(one way)

Bear Creek Transfer Camp (North of Fairfield) (TH MAP)
- Bear Creek Horse Transfer Camp Loop (16.5mi)
- Bear Creek Horse Camp To Lake At Tip-Top Mine (9mi)

Ear Creek Sheep Camp (North of Hill City) (TH MAP)
- Trails

North of Prairie
- Corral Creek (North of Prairie) (TH MAP)
- Nice ride off of Long Gulch Rd (TH MAP)

Owyhee Mountains

Wilson Creek Overview South of Marsing (TH MAP)
Diamond Basin off of Silver City Rd (TH MAP)
Little Jacks Creek Wilderness (south of Grand View) (TH MAP)
Succor Creek – see Oregon below

Treasure Valley

Click Me! to see TH overview

WHAT IS RIDGE TO RIVERS?

Ridge to Rivers is a partnership between the City of Boise, Ada County, the Bureau of Land Management Boise District, Boise National Forest, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and private land owners. The goal of Ridge to Rivers is to provide a high-quality system of trails for the enjoyment of Treasure Valley residents and visitors to the Boise Foothills. The Ridge to Rivers management area stretches from Highway 55, east to Highway 21, and from north Boise to the Boise ridgeline. Some trails are marked not for Equine use.
Ridge to Rivers Trail System Map or Interactive Map or Equestrian Trails

MORE TREASURE VALLEY AND SURROUNDING TRAILS :

Eagle
- Eagle Island (MAP)
- Eagle Foothills – Little Gulch Creek North Eagle Foothills (TH MAP)
- Eagle Foothills – East Aerie Lane North of Eagle -New Avimor Entrance (TH MAP)
  - Parking permit required.
    - Email name, home address, email address, phone
    - To: Beckyv@avimor.com
    - Subject: Parking permit on Avimor Property for horses (on Willow Creek Rd. Eagle)
    - Ride before it gets developed
Emmett Hwy 16 between Emmett and Star (TH MAP)
Emmett – Emmett Sand Hollow Rd East of Emmett (TH MAP)
Kuna – Kuna Butte south of Kuna (TH MAP)
Kuna – Swan Falls South of Kuna, on the Snake (TH MAP)
Melba – Celebration Park along the Snake (TH MAP)
Montour – Johnson Creek (TR MAP) (Between Emmett and Horse Shoe Bend)
Boise Foothills – Orchard Gulch Loop (TH MAP)
Boise Foothills – Corrals Loop Trail
- Sunset Peak Rd (TH MAP)
- Bogus Basin Road (TH MAP)
Lucky Peak – Dead Dog Trail (TH MAP)
Lucky Peak – Cottonwood Trail (TH MAP) (USFS Info)
Blacks Creek Exit – Bonneville Point- Turner Gulch Loop (TH MAP)
Blacks Creek Exit- Grouse Creek to Arrow Rock Dam (TH MAP)
Blacks Creek Exit – Lime Creek – (TH MAP)
Blacks Creek Exit – Deadman Cow Trail (5mi Loop) (TH MAP)
Blacks Creek Exit – Willow Creek Trail (6mi loop & 4miRT) (TH MAP)
Weiser – Weiser River Trail (Map-special) More Info
Little Jacks Creek Wilderness (TH Map) (Cow & Jeep trails only)(NOT Developed)
Wilson Creek Overview South of Marsing (TH MAP)

Trails below need some scouting to see if they are equine suitable.

Shows Lucky Peak TH Locations
- Lucky Peak and Adelmann Mine (park at Hill Top Restaurant trailer parking behind large hitching post and ride to trailhead)
- Lucky Peak – Deer Creek Trail
- Lucky Peak – Cervidae Peak Trail
Owyhee’s Sands Basin Road (also called Poison Creek Road)-Lots of area to explore and ride. Wild horses, Huns, Chucker and Quail aplenty.. Lots of springs also. West side of Hwy 95.

Moscow/Elk River

South East Idaho

City Of Rocks (MAP) See State Parks below.
Oakley – Big Cottonwood Creek Canyon (11mi) (TH MAP)

Idaho Centennial Trail (Nevada to Canada)

Idaho Parks information
Starting Point, (TH MAP) Nevada State Line to Winter Camp (47mi)
Winter Camp(TH MAP) to Snake River at Hammett (36mi)
Hammett(TH Map) To Castle Rock (40mi)
Castle Rock(TH MAP) to Hunter Creek Transfer Camp (35mi)
Sawmill Gulch/Hunter Creek Transfer Camp (TH MAP) to Willow Creek Transfer Camp (35mi)
Willow Creek Transfer Camp (TH MAP) to Rock Fork Basin (18mi)
Rock Fork Basin(TH MAP) to Grandjean (43mi)
Grandjean (TH MAP) to Lola Creek Campground (31mi)
…………………………. Entering Frank Church Wilderness ….. 258 mi …………………………
Lola Creek Campground (TH MAP) to Dagger Falls (15mi)
Dagger Falls (TH MAP) to Lookout Mtn. TH (56mi)
Lookout Mtn. TH (TH MAP) to Chamberlain Landing Field (Wilderness Landing strip) (49mi)
Chamberlain Landing Field to Running Creek (62mi)
Running Creek (TH MAP) to Moose Creek Airstrip (26mi)
Moose Creek Airstrip to Wilderness Gateway CG on Lachsa River (44mi)
…………………………… Leaving Wilderness ………………………………………
Wilderness Gateway CG (TH MAP) to Toboggan Ridge Rd. (41mi)
Toboggan Creek Rd (TH MAP) to Kid lake (25mi)
…(more to come)

Oregon

Succor Creek west of Homedale, Id. (TH MAP) Just over the border

See “Out Of State Trails” for more choices.

Horseback Riding in Idaho State Parks

Horseback riders will enjoy the many trails and camping opportunities in Idaho state parks. Several parks have trails specially designed for horseback riding as well as camping places designed for horse travel and care. Every region of the state offers a state park with something special for horse riding enthusiasts. Most parks offer overnight camping and accommodations.

Bruneau Dunes State Park South Central Id. Map.
Castle Rocks State Park South East Id. Smoky Mtn. CG Reservations, Trails, CG Location, Park Location
City of Rocks National Reserve South East Id. Smoky Mtn. CG Reservations, Trails, CG Location
Eagle Island State Park South West Id.
Farragut State Park North Central Id.
Harriman State Park East Central Id.
Hells Gate State Park Central Id.
Heyburn State Park North East Id.
Idaho City Trail System South West Id.
McCroskey State Park North West Id.
Thousand Spring State Park South Central Id.
Twin Peaks Ranch Salmon Id
Ashton to Tetonia Trail North East Id.

Idaho Parks and Rec Statewide Trail Map (Slow to render, just wait for it)

Squaw Butte Chapter list of trails.

Squaw Butte Favorite Trails

USFS Campgrounds With Horse Trails