The Cottonwood Trail is a little known hiking and mountain biking trail in the middle of the North Dakota badlands. Despite being very far from any large towns, it is incredibly well maintained and provides stunning views of sandstone, siltstone, mudstone and clay formations. The northern trailhead is just south of Bennet Campground. The southern terminus is a couple miles north of County Route 50 on the world class mountain biking trail, the Maah-Daah-Hey. Both can be accessed off of good gravel roads from US Highway 85, which parallels the trail to the east.