Pendleton Adventure Trails Recreation Area (PATRA)

With 6 trails to choose from, you can cover about 18 miles through the fields located just below the Pendleton Airport. There is a 2 mile easy loop for beginning mountain bikers. The rest of the trails go up and down hills with switchbacks providing a thrilling ride, hike, or run from start to finish. The trails are located off NW A Street about 1/2 mile down the road from the Pendleton Airport on the left. No running water. Please pack out any garbage. No motorized vehicles.

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Trailforks provides full GPS routes and ratings of all the current running, biking, hiking trails in the PATRA system.  Trailforks lets you use your phone to follow routes as you walk the PATRA trail network and stay on course.  All routes are marked in PATRA for easy navigation.  You also get current trail conditions, or leave the trail status as you hike, run, or ride trail network!  Be sure to leave comments and rate the trails as you use Trailforks!

Pendleton Adventure Trails Recreational Area


MTB Project provides full GPS routes and ratings of all the current running, biking, hiking trails in the PATRA system.  MTB Project lets you use your phone to follow routes as you walk the PATRA trail network and stay on course.  All routes are marked in PATRA for easy navigation.  You also get current trail conditions, or leave the trail status as you hike, run, or ride trail network!  Be sure to leave comments and rate the trails as you use MTB Project!

The trails are maintained by volunteers and the Pendleton Parks and Recreation Department. Please contact us if you would like to participate in trail maintenance.

We appreciate your interest in the Pendleton Adventure Trails.

Pendleton Adventure Trails Work Group

Trail Details

This trail is accessed through the west gate entrance of the parking lot. The trail heads west along the highway for roughly 3/4 of a mile and then will circle back on varied terrain and turns back east toward the parking lot. There is little elevation gain or lose on this flat trail that stays near the top of the trail network system.
There are several trails that drop down from this and head down the ridges and canyons, so this trail serves as access to those trails, or it can be ridden as a nice easy loop. This is a great trail for anyone looking to experience a nice easy loop.

James’s Trail on Trailforks.com

The upper half of Graveyard begins at the farthest north trail on James and is well marked. It starts down a series of fun rock drops in a small wash and gets more exciting as you go farther down. Some small skinny ladder bridges and drops keep it exciting as you finally exit the ravine and of a wooden drop. As you go off the drop, cross to the right side of the ravine and under the lone tree. You will go straight down the ravine on the right side of it, and cross over a ladder bridge and drop that puts you directly onto Tim’s trail.

Once you hit Tim’s trail after a small drop, you will continue down this fast portion of trail for about 400 yards until you take a right again on Graveyard. There is a well marked sign.

The upper half of Graveyard is technical black diamond rocks, drops, and boulders, while the lower half is blue/green fast, flowy and fun.

Graveyard on Trailforks.com

To reach this trail, ride James’ trail to either starting point. This trail is typically ridden counter clockwise, but both directions are good. If ridden counter-clockwise, take the west side trail and begin down the ridge in a long straight fast downhill run. You will eventually reach the bottom and turn east and head back up with a series of switchbacks and benches making for a fun climb back to the upper James trail. If you prefer to ride backwards, it has some tight turns and great descending as well. both directions are fun.

Tim’s Trail on Trailforks.com

QitQit begins off James’ trail on the top trail system and ends at the bottom intersection, where all trails come together at the base of the trail network. QitQitis a fun trail that cuts back and forth over a few fun terrain obstacles at the top. It is not purely downhill, it does cut back up a time or two before you get fast downhill all the way to the bottom. After you negotiate a couple fun boulder boulder sections, you come to the midway point with several options, and then the last half runs on the west side of the drainage.
There are a few variations you can take from this trail at mid-point. First, you could take a left and get back onto Tim’s trail and head back up toward the top, or follow Tim’s trail down to the bottom. Another popular choice is to take a left and drop down into graveyard, which that follows the rocky drainage to the bottom. You can also take a right at the mid-way point and ride back uphill on a couple switchbacks and gain the west ridge and drop into Zig Zag one canyon over to the west.

QitQit on Trailforks.com

This trail begins by going through the west gate and turning left. You will stay left and drop off the small wooden plank drop to start. The trail continues down the ridge through a series of big berms and over a couple jumps.

You can cut left and ride back up the gravel road, or you can continue down the slope past the large radio tower. There are some big berms down low followed by a drop at the bottom of the trail. Stay left to ride back up Tim’s trail, straight to continue up Stem Cell, or take a hard right and come back up Qit Qit.

Tower Trail on Trailforks.com

This trail starts and ends at the bottom of the canyon when following Tim’s Trail or Tower Trail to the bottom. The normal loop is done clockwise, but can be ridden in either direction. If riding the trail clockwise, it is 2 miles to the top corner, and 1 mile of downhill.

From the start, you simply head south west toward I-84 and will begin a series of switchbacks and turns toward the top. Once you crest the steep hillside, you have a small reprieve downhill as you head west and then more switchbacks to the very top corner. Once you make the corner, you will turn back East and head down some fun switchbacks and over a drop back toward the bottom.

You can ride out Tim’s trail as it will lead you back to the top parking lot.

Stem Cell on Trailforks.com

This is a fun uphill/downhill trail that gives you an easy uphill grade climb through switchbacks to a fun, fast downhill with huge rollable jumps to swooping flow corners, ladder bridges, berms, and fun rollers.

To start the trail, it is easily accessed by riding stem cell and turning left/north toward the field near the bottom corners. You can also start by riding stem cell backwards past 2 switchbacks and then head north on a primitive trail that is marked with flags and follows the edge of the wheat field for about 800 yards. the uphill will meander through the various mounds of dirt and then begin switchbacks as you climb toward the top west side.

Once you reach the top, you are greeted with a few fast switchbacks, rolling drop over a rock ledge, and then into 2 larger mounts that can be jumped as big as you can go. Roll them if you like, or try to clear 25 feet, you can hit them as fast as you can go.

Continue down past several swooping turns and take a left onto another new trail in this area, or continue to the bottom, stay left into the drainage and hit a ladder bridge/huge berm/ladder bridge as you work your way out the bottom of the drainage.

Ricky Bobby on Trailforks.com

This trail adds to Rick Bobby trail another uphill/downhill section. Rewind begins toward the mid-section coming down Rick Bobby and heads back toward the top via gentle switchbacks. Continue up toward the north-west fenceline and then drop down the flowy switchbacks to the bottom.

Rewind on Trailforks.com

To start Evan’s trail, head from the parking lot at the east end. When you reach the fence crossing, you can head left, directly east along the fence line to ride clockwise, which is the standard direction. If you cross the cattle fence crossing, you will head west and ride counter-clockwise.

The trail is normally ridden clockwise and you will switchback down and through some ravens, heading down along the hillside until you reach a gate crossing and a road. You will have to go through the gate and immediately head back west along the fence line. The trail continues to switchback as you rise back up from the bottom toward the parking lot area.

Evan’s Trail on Trailforks.com

Downhill jump line with sweeping berms, gaps and tables. The jumps range from 10 to 25 feet. There are 2 trail crossing gaps at the end of the line, and there are a lot of critters digging holes in berms and landings so look before you leap.

LET’ER SEND on Trailforks.com