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4 WESTERN GUIDE TO SNOWMOBILING 2014 markings/signage, parking, crowds, avail- ability of services, trail map and availability of off-trail riding. • We have nar- rowed those categories down to popularity (meaning how many people ride the area), scenery, snow qual- ity, off-trail riding, grooming, signage, trail map, crowds and services. • When we first started the Top 15 Trails in the West survey, we used a let- ter (A, B, C, etc.) to grade each category, but after a couple of years we changed to a number system from 1-5 with 1 being the best score. That made it easier for us to rank the areas as some of our readers were using A+ or C- when grading an area, which made it difficult sometimes to differen- tiate some categories' scores. Horns, WY; Northeast Oregon; Bucks Lake, CA and Cle Elum/Yakima, WA. • Categories on our first survey we asked our readers to grade for the rid- ing areas were: snow quality, scenery, grooming, variety of trails/terrain, trail Trail, WY; Island Park, ID; Stanley, ID; Grand Lake, CO; Diamond Lake, OR; Seeley Lake, MT; Cooke City, MT; the San Juan Mountains in Colorado; Alpine, WY; Bridgerland (later renamed Cache Valley), UT; Big Western Guide To Snowmobiling WESTERN GUIDE BEST OF ALL TIME Trail Systems No. of Times on Top 15 No. 1s Top 10 1 West Yellowstone, MT 18 14 18 2 Continental Divide Snowmobile Trail, WY 18 4 17 3 Island Park, ID 18 18 4 Stanley, ID 18 11 5 Grand Lake, CO 18 8 6 Cooke City, MT 18 18 7 Alpine, WY 18 15 8 Bridgerland (later named Cache Valley), UT 18 6 9 Big Horns, WY 18 15 10 Northeast (later named Baker/Union Counties), OR 16 3 11 Black Hills, SD 15 4 12 McCall, ID 15 10 13 Snowy Range, WY 15 14 14 Diamond Lake, OR 12 5 15 Seeley Lake, MT 12 8 16 Rabbit Ears, CO 6 5 17 Mt. Bachelor, OR 3 2 18 Lake Chelan, WA 3 19 Grand Mesa, CO 3 20 Strawberry, UT 3 21 Cle Elum/Yakima, WA 2 22 San Juan Mountains, CO 1 1 23 Bucks Lake, CA 1 24 Mammoth Lakes, CA 1 1 25 Lincoln, MT 1 1 26 Mirror Lake, UT 1 27 Priest Lake, ID 1 1 2 6 3 7 4 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 22 24 19 21 23 25 26 27 8 5 9