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Pine Mountain Recreation Area Mountain Bike Trail
Cartersville, Georgia
MTB TRAIL STATS
Avg Rating:   |
4 trail reviews |
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Status: |
Difficulty:  Intermediate |
| Length: 4 miles | Global Rank: 1454 |
| Tread: Singletrack | Configuration: Loop |
| Ridden: 17 | Wishlist: 6 |
| Avg. Speed: 4.2 mph | Avg. Time: 0hr 51min |
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Description: The trail is open daily for hiking. Mountain biking usages is allowed only on Wednesday and Saturday. Bikers must follow color-blazed directional signs for those days, no exceptions. The trail is maintained by the City of Cartersville Parks & Recreation Department. Relatively new trail, very clean ans well maintained. Wednesday is counter clockwise (for bikes) and Saturday is clockwise. I Recommend Saturday because that route will put all the tight--get off your bike-switchbacks on the up-hill and leave the--red hot disc brake rotor rollercoaster-for the down hill. All in all, this is a good lungbusting, challenging climb and a rewarding down hill. It\'s short enough to do if you live close by and you only have 30 or 45 minutes to ride (unless you\'re just a bad ass climber) and challenging enough if you want to lap it a few times to get a good burn.
Description: The trail is open daily for hiking. Mountain biking usages is allowed only on Wednesday and Saturday. Bikers must follow color-blazed directional signs for those days, no exceptions. The trail is maintained by the City of Cartersville Parks & Recreation Department. Relatively new trail, very clean ans well maintained. Wednesday is counter clockwise (for bikes) and Saturday is clockwise. I Recommend Saturday because that route will put all the tight--get off your bike-switchbacks on the up-hill and leave the--red hot disc brake rotor rollercoaster-for the down hill. All in all, this is a good lungbusting, challenging climb and a rewarding down hill. It\'s short enough to do if you live close by and you only have 30 or 45 minutes to ride (unless you\'re just a bad ass climber) and challenging enough if you want to lap it a few times to get a good burn.
added on September 11, 2006 by 
NEARBY TRAILS
- Iron Hills Trail (Red Top Mtn. State Park) in Cartersville (3.3 miles away)
- Scout Trail in Acworth (10.7 miles away)
- Blankets Creek Bicycle Trail in Woodstock (11.4 miles away)
- Reinhardt College Trails in Waleska (14.6 miles away)
TRAIL REVIEWS review this trail
reviewed by Frank_C on February 25, 2009
Rode it for the first time today, a Wednesday. I appeared to be the only one out there. Scenery is nice, trail is well maintained. There are not a lot of technical areas. The first half of the ride is all uphill and the second half is all downhill. The climb going ccw is pretty tough at times. My biggest complaint about the trail is that the switchbacks are cut too sharp and have large stones which make it necessary to dismount 10 times or so. The downhill was a blast - about 20-25 mph. If I wasn't short on time, I would have ridden up again just to bomb it again.
reviewed by Giant_Boulder on January 2, 2009
This was my first MB trail and did I pick a rough one. Lots of dismounts and tight switchbacks. Went on a Saturday but I think I went around the trail backwards for that day. A fun ride down.
reviewed by sandm96 on September 27, 2006
Rode Pine Mountain again today as a part of a loop starting at Cooper's Furnace. Made all the way to the top, only dismounts or stops were for a few tight switch backs (uphill only), made all the switchbacks downhill. Also added the Lookout/summit section to this ride. Nice rocks up there to catch your breath on, and pretty good view as well. Just a word of warning: watch your speed on the downhill, this singletrack is pretty narrow with some blind turns, if you come head on with a hiker going fast, there's nowhere for either of you to go. It would be a nasty fall to go off the side. Also, this whole loop, with the summit/lookout trail, actually only totals about 3.2 miles from parking lot back to parking lot, but it's fun, and your legs know that they did something afterward.
reviewed by sandm96 on September 11, 2006
I'm the moron who submitted this trail, and to correct myself: Wednesday is Counterclockwise (recommended) and Saturday is Clockwise (OK, but tough switchbacks on the downhill, many of them are forced dismounts). Fun trail though!
Similar Trail: Not similar, but for more good climbing check out the House of Dreams ride at Berry College (Rome)
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