Mont. A network of well-marked trails radiates from this town just outside the entrance to Yellowstone National Park. It's also one of the last towns where you can ride your machine right down the street to a restaurant or saloon. This winter-sports town in the Selkirk Mountains regularly records 40 to 60 feet of snow a year, so snowmobile season runs until June. One sledneck here recently rode his machine off a jump meant for extreme skiers - and lived to tell about it. With 2,200 miles of trails, this sparsely populated county in the Appalachians offers snowmobilers plenty of room to get lost - without getting too far from a bed and hot meal.
Trails traverse everything from farmland to forests, river valleys to steep mountain terrain.
Minn. Starting in the village of Grand Marais, this famous 63-mile path winds north and west to Saganaga Lake at the Canadian border. You can't snowmobile right up to Mount Rushmore, but you can get close on the 335 miles of groomed trails crisscrossing this region.