Ninemile

This is smooth, fun, totally empty single track just 30 minutes from downtown Misosula! Lolo National Forest has marked and mapped bike routes north of the historic Ninemile Ranger Station on a combination of little-used single track and mostly quiet dirt roads. Though the routes are not marked on the Lolo's web page, they do appear on a mountain bike booklet the forest has published and which is available in bike shops in Missoula. Park at the Ninemile Ranger Station then head north and west toward Kreis Pond, then west toward Butler Creek, and finally south and east along the main Ninemile Valley road, looking for diamond-shaped bike signs along the way.