Enduro routes on dirt tracks: how to find a challenge without going where it's closed

Last reviewed: October 16, 2026

On a light bike with skilled hands, the terrain stops being the limit and the law becomes it. Footpaths are closed to motor vehicles in almost every region, drove roads throughout Spain, and in some regions, such as Valencia, enduro and trials bikes can't ride forest tracks at all. A properly hard route is the one that wrings you out where you're allowed to ride, and that takes planning.

Which terrain suits an enduro

Broken track, loose rock, steep climbs and descents, mud, sand, fords with water: everything a mid-size bike struggles with, an enduro enjoys. Corally's orange and red sections are its terrain, and on good track it gets bored.

The limit isn't technical. It's where you're allowed: open tracks over two metres wide in most regions, no footpaths, no cross-country, no firebreaks or logging tracks, and a speed limit, usually 30 km/h. A route that goes down a footpath isn't a better route: it's a fine and, in protected areas, worse.

Which colours are yours and what "expert" means

The Enduro profile starts from maximum difficulty 100: everything is in, except what's closed. Red (expert) in Corally means a very steep gradient, a very bad surface, a near-impassable track or a path the map knows nothing about, treated as hard just in case. Read the reason: a red for a rocky climb is a challenge; a red for "path, no data" may be a perfect track or a gully.

Climbs count up and down. If a route comes out red one way and orange the other, turn it around and see which one you want.

What Corally leaves out, and why

Even at difficulty 100, Corally doesn't go through:

  • Ways with an explicit ban on motorbikes or motor vehicles on the map.
  • Greenways and bicycle- or foot-only ways, which carry no ban tag but are closed all the same.
  • Paths through a village: pedestrian streets, steps and people walking.
  • Tracks a field tester has reported as closed or impassable.

The Enduro warning in the Valencia region

In the Valencia region, Decree 91/2023 bans enduro and trials bikes from forest tracks, along with any motorbike with motocross tyres on the driven wheel. Corally's Enduro level is a difficulty level, not a type of bike: if yours is a light adventure bike on dual-purpose tyres you can use it; if it's a road-registered enduro, Valencian forest tracks aren't for it.

That's why the planner warns when a route on the Enduro profile goes through the Valencia region. It doesn't change the route: it tells you so you decide with the law in front of you.

How to prepare a hard route

Ask for 85 to 90% dirt and look at the three options: with a high difficulty Corally finds more ways and the options differ more. Compare the warnings: the one with the most fords and steep climbs is usually the one you're after.

Keep the road exit in sight if there are several of you: on hard terrain, whoever breaks something or runs out of steam is glad to know where tarmac is.

Take the route in the app: on red sections, knowing what's coming (a steep descent, a ford) and how much is left is what separates a good day from a scare. And if a section looks worse than the map said, you skip it from the handlebars.

How to do it in Corally

  • Pick the Enduro profile: it starts from maximum difficulty 100 and 85% dirt. In the app, "Enduro, flat out".
  • Read the profile's legal notice: in the Valencia region enduro bikes can't ride forest tracks.
  • Look at the reasons on red sections: a rocky climb isn't the same as a path with no data.
  • If a section looks worse than the map said, "Skip this section" in the app takes you out another way.

Plan an enduro route

Frequently asked questions

Can I ride an enduro bike on forest tracks?
It depends on the region. In the Valencia region, no: Decree 91/2023 bans enduro and trials bikes from forest tracks. In others, open tracks on public forest land are for general use with conditions (speed, group size). We've written it up, with the article and the date, on the rules page.
Does Corally put singletrack into an enduro route?
Only if it isn't marked as closed on the map and doesn't cross a village, and it penalises it against tracks. Most footpaths are closed to motorbikes by law even when the map doesn't say so: if a route uses one, it warns you, and with "no singletrack" none gets in.
What does a red section "no data" mean?
That it's a path the map says nothing about, neither surface nor condition. Corally treats it as hard out of caution. It may be a comfortable track or it may not: if you want to ride it, look at the satellite view and have a way out in mind.
Is Corally's difficulty what I'll actually find?
It's an estimate from public data: the type of way, the surface, the grade and the condition on record, and the real gradient of the terrain. A section can be worse or better than it says, and a track can be closed for fire risk without the map knowing.

Guide written by Corally from riding experience and from how the planner works. The difficulty of each section comes from public, community-made data and may differ from the terrain: what you see when you get there, the signs and each region's rules come first.