Name: Joe's Ridge
Rating: 4.6

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Joe's Ridge is accessed just off the 18 Road at the upper parking lot. It starts out as a mostly gentle climb, with one or two steeper anaerobic sections, characteristic of this area.

The trail soon climbs out to a ridge and descends. It's fast and flowy, and encourages you to let go of the brakes and let it roll. There are just a few spots that can bite you as the speeds increase, but it's mostly just a sweet section of trail. The views are great and there are more trees here compared to other trails.

Ride to the dirt road (Mitchell Road) and follow it for 0.2 miles until Joe's Ridge crosses the road and heads downhill. You'll cross the Kessel Run, and then the main road (18 Road), then finish with a short downhill to the Cow Pond intersection, just below the parking area. This lower section is smooth, fast, but a whole lot less interesting than the upper part.

A better option from Mitchell Road is to go straight across to the MoJoe trail to complete a loop back to the lower parking lot.

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Land Manager: BLM Colorado - Colorado River Valley Field Office

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Michael Ahnemann with improvements by Kristen Arendt and 2 others

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Trail Ratings

4.6 from 217 votes

#2

in 18 Road Trails

#31

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4.6 from 217 votes

5 Star		66%
4 Star		26%
3 Star		7%
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1 Star		0%

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#2

in 18 Road Trails

#12

in Colorado

#31

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Apr 10, 2013 near Fruita, CO

Just starting to get into the fun stuff on Joe's Ridge!

May 4, 2018 near Fruita, CO

The look when you see that first big drop!

Nov 7, 2020 near Fruita, CO

Nov 7, 2020 near Fruita, CO

Joes Ridge has plenty of sniper lines if you're looking to push it!

Jan 17, 2017 near Fruita, CO

Jan 17, 2020 near Fruita, CO

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Mar 22, 2026

Wild Skies

Ruth's second attempt!

Dec 23, 2025

Jake Albright

Nov 1, 2025

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Feb 9, 2025

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Mar 25, 2024

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Oct 16, 2023

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Oct 31, 2022

Jim Ryan

Oct 29, 2022

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Oct 9, 2022

Joe Carpenter

May 10, 2022

Adam Miller

May 7, 2022

Brian K

May 7, 2022

Todd Ward

Frontside to Joe's love the views and rolls, connect with Mojo ( flatter but feature filled dippy fun run) for a top ten run. Beats Zip for me 5.6mi — 0h 40m

Apr 23, 2022

Hung Hau

1.5mi — 0h 50m

Apr 15, 2022

Sarah Hunter

Apr 2, 2022

Corinne Casper

Mar 31, 2022

Atsuko Ohtake

Nov 13, 2021

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Oct 29, 2021

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Oct 22, 2021

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May 21, 2021

Taylor McElheney

May 13, 2021

Derek Grzelewski

May 12, 2021

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Apr 3, 2021

Kyle Mahanes

Mar 7, 2021

Matt Castelli

The bomb! Hit the jumps!!!

Nov 25, 2020

Dylan Walker

Oct 29, 2020

Ankit P

Oct 16, 2020

David Schmid

Oct 15, 2020

David Schmid

Sep 5, 2020

Russ Gowan

Connected thus to MoJoes and for a roughkt 3 mile downhill bliss. OK, had to pedal uphill a good bit before that fun, but it was well worth it. C… 1.4mi — 0h 08m

Aug 31, 2020

Jason Booker

Jul 30, 2020

Zak Lieberman

Jul 8, 2020

Jason Booker

Jun 7, 2020

Margaret Ruskiewicz

May 31, 2020

Caitlin G

1.3mi

May 30, 2020

Andrew Coulter

May 18, 2020

Marissa Eck

Apr 29, 2020

Filip Zaborek

Mar 8, 2020

Mike Palamara

1.9mi — 0h 20m

Nov 9, 2019

Braiden Miller

4.5mi — 0h 45m

Nov 2, 2019

Private User

Oct 25, 2019

Corey Robinson

Oct 25, 2019

Mark Carleton

486mi — 0h 47m

Oct 19, 2019

Spencer Mauk

Sep 15, 2019

Tyler Hincy

6.5mi

Sep 14, 2019

Mark Buzek

Jul 21, 2019

Brian K

Jul 17, 2019

Jeremy Harvey

Jun 30, 2019

Brian Christie

Nice ridge line ride. Added MoJoe at end

Jun 13, 2019

Drew Daly

Jun 8, 2019

Joe DeLia

Jun 6, 2019

Drew Gheen

Probably my favorite trail. Fun ridge line and leads right to mojoes 1.9mi

Jun 5, 2019

Connor Parish

Fun and fast trail with some mild exposure on a thin ridge. Hook this one up with MoJoe for a real good time at 18 Road! — 0h 06m

May 31, 2019

Brandon Vicenti

May 29, 2019

Fabian Hagen

Prime conditions!

May 26, 2019

LIANA GREETIS

May 24, 2019

Ray Harmon

May 18, 2019

Yosuke Kanii

May 12, 2019

Alex Oseland

May 11, 2019

Sean Tansey

10mi

May 5, 2019

Gina Robertson

May 5, 2019

Nate Schulte

fun, steep descents

May 5, 2019

Sean Lichter

May 4, 2019

Gina Robertson

May 4, 2019

jahoffman00 Hoffman

May 4, 2019

Anni Hurt

Apr 19, 2019

Dbender303

Apr 19, 2019

Tom Dancs

Apr 13, 2019

Zach Rochon

Apr 9, 2019

Matt Chan

Apr 9, 2019

Ryan Burke

1.9mi

Apr 6, 2019

jahoffman00 Hoffman

Apr 5, 2019

Adam Miller

Super fun, big steep roller coaster

Mar 30, 2019

Richard Hopkins

This should be noted better as downhill only

Mar 17, 2019

Tim McCabe

Nov 17, 2018

Karin Ohman

Oct 28, 2018

Katie Purdy

Oct 21, 2018

Nick Wrzesinski

Oct 20, 2018

Matthew Guerin

Oct 18, 2018

Rob NELSON

12mi

Oct 18, 2018

Lisa Kivett-Simpson

1.9mi

Oct 14, 2018

Sarka Fingralova

Oct 13, 2018

Jonathan Tran

Sep 22, 2018

Jasmine Stader

Sep 15, 2018

Alex.locke

Sep 9, 2018

Steffen Hauschild

JoesRidge/Mojo/PrimeCut/B,P&R

Aug 4, 2018

Vinh Nguyen

Rode up from bottom of Prime Cut 5mi

Jul 31, 2018

Jay Holsten

Jul 25, 2018

Arthur Shune

1.9mi

Jul 23, 2018

Carina Claassen

Amazing trail!!! Beautiful up and down hill ridges

Jul 3, 2018

Dominic Chiappelli

1.9mi

Jun 11, 2018

Austin Adams

May 27, 2018

Corey Robinson

May 22, 2018

John Schneider

Great trail

May 20, 2018

Thomas Pyke

May 17, 2018

Preston Dennis

May 17, 2018

Jason Bice

May 15, 2018

Loren Levy

May 14, 2018

Mamí Glug Glug

May 12, 2018

Meagan Shepherd

May 10, 2018

Ben Sherer

May 9, 2018

John Styrnol

May 5, 2018

Megs Oley

May 5, 2018

Paul Dubya

Apr 29, 2018

Ethan Davis

Apr 27, 2018

Eli Edelman

3 laps in fruita 2x down joes 1x down pbr

Apr 23, 2018

Darren Sq

Apr 19, 2018

Private User

Apr 3, 2018

Matt Chan

Mar 30, 2018

Craig Champlin

Not terribly technical. Mostly a smooth roll. Crazy seeing kickers on a knife-edge ridge though! I opted to keep wheels on ground. FUN!!

Mar 24, 2018

RYAN STAUDE

Fun. 1mi

Oct 22, 2017

Tyler O'Gara

Oct 21, 2017

Paul Billings

Cut off to MoJoe. Loved upper Joe's.

Oct 14, 2017

Daria Glock

Oct 14, 2017

Josh

Whoa

Oct 13, 2017

Jack Graber

Oct 12, 2017

Sara Major

Oct 7, 2017

Rob Pressly

Sep 23, 2017

MR Hall

Sep 18, 2017

Meg Howard

Sep 14, 2017

Chris Maze

Sep 13, 2017

fred scurti

Jul 21, 2017

Alejandro Cazar

Jul 8, 2017

April E

Fast and fun. 1.9mi

Jun 22, 2017

E Milne

Jun 5, 2017

Scott Edwards

2mi

May 28, 2017

Private User

May 20, 2017

Josh Winer

Doesn't get much better. Make sure to add MoJoes 1.9mi

May 18, 2017

Michelle Clark-Conley

Favorite of the 18 rd trails! Best mix of everything this area has to offer.

May 14, 2017

Casey Vavrina

Just awesome

Apr 28, 2017

Steve Scherck

Apr 27, 2017

Ryan Gross

Apr 22, 2017

Jeremy Henkins

Apr 22, 2017

Heather G

Apr 21, 2017

Jeremy Henkins

Apr 21, 2017

Heather G

Apr 18, 2017

Damon Roth

Apr 13, 2017

Private User

Apr 8, 2017

Clare Liu

Apr 7, 2017

bethlynne Heller

Apr 7, 2017

David Romer

Apr 6, 2017

Steve Sharp

Apr 2, 2017

TS TS

Mar 14, 2017

Shawn Hogan

Feb 25, 2017

Michelle Clark-Conley

might be my favorite ride here! great trail to get someone used to a little exposure.

Nov 27, 2016

Geoff Guimond

Nov 11, 2016

Jake Seipel

Oct 29, 2016

Kyle Yoder

Oct 28, 2016

Ha Ballz

Oct 27, 2016

Scott Howell

Oct 23, 2016

Travis Parsons

Oct 15, 2016

Jeff Wagner

Oct 13, 2016

Sarah Barton

Oct 8, 2016

Larry Collins

Oct 8, 2016

Kiki in Colorado

May 26, 2016

Sophie R

Apr 30, 2016

Twayne11 McBride

Apr 27, 2016

TS TS

Apr 20, 2016

lubes 17319

Apr 18, 2016

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Mar 22, 2016

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Mar 20, 2016

Private User

Dec 18, 2015

Rob Toftness

Nov 21, 2015

Sophie R

Oct 11, 2015

Dave Mullaney

Oct 8, 2015

Sara Major

Sep 25, 2015

Ry Zy

Sep 12, 2015

Jesse Sakires

Sep 7, 2015

Jim McKee

Sep 5, 2015

SJ KY

1.9mi

Aug 30, 2015

Travis Graham

Jul 23, 2015

Ryan Hickman

Jun 14, 2015

Susan Weiss

Jun 12, 2015

Dave Smith

Jun 1, 2015

Private User

May 17, 2015

jmapping

May 12, 2015

Carla Hagan

Apr 8, 2015

reuben bel

Apr 3, 2015

Bam Lopez

Mar 20, 2015

lubes 17319

Mar 19, 2015

lubes 17319

Mar 8, 2015

rich visscher

Mar 6, 2015

rich visscher

Night ride. Super fun.

Feb 6, 2015

Scott Cejka

ALways a fun ride outside of camp 1.9mi

Oct 19, 2014

Jon Prescott

1.9mi

Oct 18, 2014

Mark Tomsu

1.9mi

Oct 7, 2014

Shea Kolar

Oct 4, 2014

Jeff Va

May 10, 2014

Rich Willis

May 9, 2014

garreth debiegun

Apr 11, 2014

jt 80304

Nov 27, 2013

MattFerguson Ferguson

Nov 5, 2013

Matt Hage

May 24, 2013

Chuck McQuade

Did Joe's to MoJo 1.9mi

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Joe's Ridge

“A short but really sweet lead-in to the newer downhill flow trail, MoJoe. ”

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