Adventure bike routes in Aragon
Text reviewed on October 16, 2026 · OpenStreetMap data from October 8, 2026
Aragon has 79,269 km of mapped dirt track and 101,852 km of unpaved ways: 82 % of its network is dirt, mostly easy or medium difficulty. The hills are in Teruel (the Sierra de Albarracín, the Maestrazgo, Gúdar-Javalambre and the Matarraña), in the Pre-Pyrenees and Pyrenees of Huesca and around the Moncayo and the ranges of Calatayud and Daroca in Zaragoza; the Monegros and the Ebro valley are flat. OpenStreetMap figures from October 2026.
By province:Teruel Huesca Zaragoza
What the terrain is like
Three provinces, three kinds of terrain. Teruel is high, dry hill country: pine forest and red sandstone in the Sierra de Albarracín, canyons and tablelands in the Maestrazgo, Gúdar-Javalambre with tracks nearing 2,000 m, and the Matarraña, with gullies between Valderrobres, La Fresneda and Cretas. Huesca is the Pre-Pyrenees and Pyrenees (Sobrarbe, Alto Gállego, Jacetania, Ribagorza): elevations above 3,000 m, lots of fords and plenty of ways that are singletrack. Zaragoza is flatter: the Moncayo and the ranges of Calatayud and Daroca for the hills, and the Ebro valley and the Monegros for easy riding.
In public forests, the Aragon Forest Act (art. 90) allows riding without a permit on tracks open to general traffic, in groups of up to 5 vehicles and at 30 km/h. The figures below are what is mapped, not what is open: you have to check that on the ground.
Almost two out of three kilometres of dirt track have no surface tagged in OpenStreetMap: the difficulty of those lanes is an estimate from neighbouring tracks and the planner flags them as unknown. There are 17,696 km of singletrack, which the planner leaves out of the route.
The terrain in figures
What is mapped in OpenStreetMap as of October 2026, scored with the same difficulty model the planner uses. Ways that cross the boundary count only for the part inside.
- Unpaved ways (dirt tracks, lanes and singletrack)
- 101,852 km
- Paved roads and streets
- 22,610 km
- Share of the network that is dirt
- 82 %
- Of which, dirt tracks
- 79,269 km
- Very firm dirt track1,731 km
- Firm dirt track9,380 km
- Rough dirt track9,159 km
- Very rough dirt track6,592 km
- Barely passable dirt track1,227 km
- No surface data51,182 km
- Other dirt lanes (rural, service)
- 4,886 km
- Singletrack and footpaths (almost always off-limits to motorbikes)
- 17,696 km
- Easy56,962 km
- Medium16,347 km
- Hard10,691 km
- Expert155 km
- Mapped fords
- 7,919 (7,726 points and 193 sections)
- Elevation (terrain model, approximate)
- from 70 to 3,360 m
- Fuel stations
- 523
- Bars and restaurants
- 4,255
Dirt tracks by surface (as tagged in OpenStreetMap):
Difficulty of tracks and lanes, singletrack excluded · average 27/100
Each way's difficulty comes from its surface, grade, condition and the real slope from the terrain model, in the easier direction; singletrack is left out of that average because on a motorbike it is almost never an option. Fords are the ones somebody has mapped in OpenStreetMap: there are more. It is all public, crowd-sourced data: it may not match what you find.
Routes to get started
Four routes with no singletrack, one per hill area: the two-and-a-half-hour loop through the Sierra de Albarracín, Cantavieja → Villarluengo through the Maestrazgo, Sabiñánigo → Aínsa through the Pyrenees of Huesca and the nearly two-hour loop from Tarazona, at the foot of the Moncayo. Each province's page has more options.
Calculated with Corally's planner with no singletrack and at the level shown; times are riding time at adventure-bike pace, no stops. They are saved: the link does not expire.
Trail level · a bit of spice
Cantavieja → Villarluengo
Maestrazgo: 30 km between Cantavieja and Villarluengo, 63 % on dirt track, a high point of nearly 1,700 m, four fords and the odd steep climb.
- Distance
- 30 km
- Time
- 44 min
- Dirt
- 63 %
- Max. difficulty
- 40/100 · Medium
- Climb
- +694 m
- Warnings
- 5 warnings · 4 fords
Maxitrail level · take it easy
Bucle desde Tarazona
A loop of nearly two hours from Tarazona, at the foot of the Moncayo: 62 km, 80 % on easy dirt track (max 34/100) and four fords.
- Distance
- 62 km
- Time
- 1 h 48 min
- Dirt
- 80 %
- Max. difficulty
- 34/100 · Medium
- Climb
- +440 m
- Warnings
- 4 warnings · 4 fords
Maxitrail level · take it easy
Bucle desde Albarracín
A two-and-a-half-hour loop from Albarracín through the sierra: 98 km, 57 % on dirt track with max difficulty 42/100 and 15 fords.
- Distance
- 98 km
- Time
- 2 h 35 min
- Dirt
- 57 %
- Max. difficulty
- 42/100 · Medium
- Climb
- +1,453 m
- Warnings
- 17 warnings · 15 fords
Trail level · a bit of spice
Sabiñánigo → Aínsa
The long day in the Pyrenees of Huesca: 103 km from the Alto Gállego to the Sobrarbe, 59 % on dirt track, 13 fords, four steep climbs and nearly 2,000 m of accumulated climbing.
- Distance
- 103 km
- Time
- 2 h 50 min
- Dirt
- 59 %
- Max. difficulty
- 59/100 · Hard
- Climb
- +1,960 m
- Warnings
- 18 warnings · 13 fords
Fords and crossings to watch
This region has 7,919 fords mapped in OpenStreetMap. The planner and the roadbook warn about them and tell apart the ones that carry water from the ones that may (ramblas and gullies that run dry most of the year).
Aragon has 7,919 mapped fords and nearly all are in Teruel and Huesca, in mountain gullies and torrents. Zaragoza, drier, has quite a few fewer.
The planner and the roadbook flag every ford, tell the ones that carry water from the ones that may, and group consecutive ones. After snowmelt or a storm a gully that was dry can come down hard: if you can't see the bottom, don't cross.
What the rules say in Aragon
- In Aragon, the consolidated Forest Act (Legislative Decree 1/2017, art. 90) allows riding without a permit on tracks open to general traffic in public forests, in groups of up to 5 vehicles and at no more than 30 km/h; the rider takes on civil liability (art. 90.2).
- Tracks that are not open require a permit (art. 90.3) and tourist routes or events need a special-use permit (art. 90.5). Corally does not know whether a given track is open to general traffic or who owns the forest: signs, chains and closures rule.
We don't have the rules page for this region yet. Meanwhile: public open tracks only, and signs and closures always win.
Base towns, fuel and food
Valderrobres, in the Matarraña, is the best base among the towns with the most climbing dirt track around them: two petrol stations and 23 places to eat. The rest of the towns on the list (La Fresneda, Valjunquera, Valdeltormo, Mosqueruela and El Frasno) have hardly any services, one petrol station at most: fill the tank beforehand.
Ranked by kilometres of hilly dirt track (sustained climb or descent of 6 % or more) within about 8 km. Fuel stations within 5 km and bars or restaurants within 3 km, according to OpenStreetMap. The region has 523 fuel stations and 4,255 places to eat mapped.
| Town | Hilly track (8 km) | Fuel (5 km) | Food (3 km) |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Fresneda | 506 km | 0 | 5 |
| Valderrobres | 502 km | 2 | 23 |
| Valjunquera | 490 km | 1 | 0 |
| Valdeltormo | 469 km | 0 | 2 |
| El Frasno | 448 km | 1 | 0 |
| Mosqueruela | 447 km | 1 | 2 |
Plan your own
Set a start and an end (or a loop by time) in Aragon, pick your level and Corally gives you the route over dirt tracks with the difficulty of every section, the fords, the road exits for the group and the roadbook. You can try it without an account.
Page written by Corally with the figures from its database (OpenStreetMap and public terrain models) and routes calculated with its planner. It is public, crowd-sourced data: difficulty, fords and tracks may not match the ground. What you find on arrival, the signs, the closures and each region's rules always win.