Black Hills National Forest · South Dakota, Wyoming

Gravel Pit 2

0.7 mi of trail, end to end · native material surface · trail No. 8002 · trail class 2 · typical grade 5-8% · tread 60-96 inches wide · hiking, bike, motorcycle, atv, e-bike · motorized use allowed

Trailhead Spearfish Quarry Trailhead Drive there

Spearfish Quarry Trailhead the Forest Service's write-up

The Forest Service designed the Spearfish Quarry Trailhead for beginners to practice their motorized riding skills. The former gravel pit near the parking area is open to cross-country travel and there are four short trails accessible from the trailhead.

Access the trailhead from Spearfish via Interstate 90, Exit 8, traveling south on McGuigan Road which merges to Tinton Road. Stay on Tinton Road (also National Forest Service Road, NFSR 134) for 1.6 miles. At Trail 8000, turn west (right) and proceed approximately 0.1 mile to the trailhead. [There is also a non-motorized trailhead on the east (left) side of the road as you travel up Tinton. Continue past the non-motorized trailhead another 0.25 mile to TR 8000 to access the motorized trailhead.

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Upper Tinton Trailhead the Forest Service's write-up

Upper Tinton Trailhead by Bonnie Jones
Photo: US Forest Service

Overview

The Upper Tinton trailhead is located approximately 1.1 miles south of the Forest Service Spearfish Work Center sign off of Tinton Road. The Upper Tinton parking area was completed in 2015 to provide a safe area for visitors to park their vehicles while mountain biking or hiking on the Tinton trail. The Tinton trail network includes approximately 46 miles of trail. Around 11 miles of the Tinton trail overlap existing system trails at Big Hill, Rimrock, Crow Peak, and Old Baldy. (Photo: by Bonnie Jones, Black Hills National Forest/USDA Forest Service)

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About this trail's facts

The lines are the US Forest Service's National Forest System trails layer (public domain), read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end, and the class, surface, grade and tread width are the forest's own entries where it publishes them - a forest that publishes the centreline alone has none. The trailheads and the points along the way are the Service's recreation points, and the write-ups its own recarea text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the forest's own site before you go.