Review: This is one of my favorite places to go ride. You can make your route pretty difficult if you venture all the way up to the section 16 area which is also where the black trails are, or you can take it a little easier with the mild greens and entertaining blues at the bottom and middle of the park. The trails, by comparison to say Palmer park, are a little bit easier of a ride. I can barely touch a black at Palmer but the black trails here are less hardcore but still challenging at times. The greens at Red Rock are really not worth a ride unless you are just cruising around or are just starting out. The lack of really hard trails is what keeps this park from being 5 stars.
Favorite trails are Quarry Trail which is a blue, Roundup which is black, and the ride down from section 16 is pretty fun which I just did this weekend.
Red Rock has something for everyone except may be too easy at points for an advanced rider but pretty fun and well-maintained trails.

Similar Trail: Greens and blues at Palmer Park but with more uphill.

Review: This is a very scenic trail. The canyon is beautiful, and so is the view of the mountains. There is nothing too hard here, besides a couple long climbs. Not very technical. The bike park is fun.

Review: This is a highly scenic trail. The canyon is beautiful, and so is the view of the mountains. There is some hard climbing here, but nothing too tecnical. Besides a climb or two, nothing hard. And the bike park is fun too.

Review: This was a wonderful trail, by far the most scenic trail.

Review: Simple, easy trail. It gets crowded on the weekends.

Review: This trail is great for what it is. I KNOW there are some hidden gems of single track that AHEM! DirtCoach can't clean up and down... Just saying, before you bash a place realize what it is there for. Red Rocks is a great place to work on your cardio and climbing for XC and spend some family time with the kids.

Review: This place is a great addition to the COS area mountain bike scene. Miles of trails with just enough tech mixed in to keep things interesting. Portions of Red Rock Canyon remind me of the blue trails at Palmer Park but the scenery is clearly better here. Great access to other trails like Section 16 make this an excellent starting (and ending) point to more epic rides.

Similar Trail: Palmer Park

Review: A good introduction for new bikers to sharp curves and some rocky singletrack. Lots of criss-crossed trails, with Maps everywhere to plan your route. Good stuff!

Review: Not a bad after work ride, simple, open, good view, nothing too technical or strenuous. Skills area is ok, dirt jump section is fun....what attracted me to the park. Overall, it's a decent spot to get the legs moving after work or if you're just in the area and looking to kill an hour or so.

Similar Trail: Ute Valley

Review: Good trail to come do a couple of loops in the winter months. Usually dry and more ice free than other trails.

Review: Is another nice park that is close to town and good for a nice easy ride.

Review: I ride Red Rocks all the time. I actually love to ride from Manitou on the Inteman trail and then dump out into SandTrap. Ride down and then just do a bunch of loops and then ride back along the Inteman Trail. I love riding out here! It's a great after work ride.

Review: Great little network of trails with unique scenery, close to town and good conectivity linking with Section 16 and the Inteman Trail. I really dig it, especially since its close to my house too!* Review edited 10/15/2009

* Review edited 10/15/2009

Similar Trail: Garden of the Gods, Stratton Open Space

Review: Had a couple of hours to burn on the west side. This system has some fun parts. Once you pedal up towards the top there is some decent singletrack. The skills area might not be up to some folks standards, but is a fun way to warm up before heading up the trail. Worth the time if you are on the west side of town. Watch out for dogs....

Similar Trail: Palmer Park

Review: Good variety of stuff but come during the weekday to avoid crowds.

Review: Fun trails. Watch out for people.

Review: What a great unexplored trail! I took it on up on a day which had only a few hikers and an occassional dog walker. There are parts of the trail that dead end and parts where you can catch air , even a little playground with teeter totters and a roller coaster ..for you on your bike! Nice workout up hill and quite a thrilling ride down..good after work routine but you can go far ..I went up a lil ways on to Sec 16..be aware theres alot of this trail system that has not been evaluated as safe..caution and happy exploring as I found it to be well worth my time!

Similar Trail: Garden of the Gods

Review: The bike park is kinda cool I think. Fun just to mess around if you just want time on the bike. Can practice some tech-skills. And Dirtcoach, your an fucking asshole, I took my little brother to this bike park a few times to try to get him to like biking. are you even capable of saying you don't like something without coming across as a jackass? Nobody likes people like you, so please, stay out of public areas.

* Review edited 11/14/2008

Review: The red rocks are cool. The old quarry is interesting. It can be fun to watch the rock climbers. You have to hit the trails higher up to get to the interesting stuff. Some may find some utility in the skills park. LOTS of hikers, mostly with dogs. The trails get more interesting and less crowded the further you get from the parking area. There is one great extended but easily doable climb in beautiful surroundings and a few techy bits scattered about. The "Contemplative Trail" mentioned below is hiker only, so take one of the other routes around it. As a bike trail, this ones greatest value lies in that it connects to some other great trails in the area. This is also a fantastic place for night riding if you're equipped.

* Review edited 9/12/2012

Review: This is what I call a Gaper trail. Red Rock Canyon is good place to walk your dog or for very beginner trail runner. I wanted to take a look at and play on the FREE RIDE area. Guys that is not free ride, maybe at the very basic level. Maybe ok to teach your girlfriends retarded brother how to ride a bike but boring. The Red Rock Canyon trail ratings are way off the Black trails are low blue at best mostly rain washed out gravel skids, and I rode everything. Twisty trail yes but if your slaying it around a corner, there may be a dog walker just around it, the high brush made visibility poor. It was moderately fun two wheel drifting every corner but became boring fast. one black trail "Contemplative trail" is a low blue at best. Zero technical skill needed I could ride my road bike on everything there.

* Review edited 9/27/2007

Review: Some good trails. Nothing too hard or rocky. Alot of twisty single-track. Solid packed fo the most part.

Similar Trail: Grden of Gods

Review: Update - The terrain park is now open. They are still adding some stuff to it, put it has a lot of punch packed into a fairly small place. There are 3 teeter-totters, several elevated wooded bridges, a few drops, and some neat banks to help you get around corners with speed. This is a great place to work your technical skills if you only have a limited amount of time to ride. Red Rocks is fun to ride in the winter, but in the summer, it is absolutely packed with people on the trails. The farther you go, the less people you will see, but watch out for dogs and small kids near the parking lot and for the first mile of trail in any direction.

Similar Trail: Palmer Park

Review: LOTS of different stuff here: long uphill climbs, scary singletrack cliff-y stuff, big fat tire road stuff, clay, sand, fun switch-backs (that I need LOTS more practice on), stairs, too much to list. It was a fun ride til I watched my husband flip through the air...see gregger's review of this ride. Scared me half to death, but he is ok...scratched up, but ok...course, he had his helmet on. Anyhow, fun and challenging trail, a fair amount of hikers and dogs. Probably a little to challenging for me as I have only been riding since July of this year.

Similar Trail: Palmer Park

Review: Nice ride. Everything leaves the parking lot uphill, and it's a good long climb up. We started up on wide fire road, the clay makes for good traction but is probably horrible when it's wet. We then took a short section of very narrow singletrack that switchbacked up the side of a bluff--the dirt there was awfully loose, so the downhill side of the trail tended to disintegrate underneath you. More fireroad at the top, with connections available to section 16 and Intemann trails from there. But we were tight on time, so we headed downhill. There are some fun berms to jump on the way...but I was going a bit too fast (hit about 27mph) and was surprised by a much larger (about 2') and steeper berm. No time to slow down, it endo'd me HARD. Helmet is destroyed, bruise on the forehead, neck is sore, and a good rash on my right shoulder/hip/leg. Bike was fine :) and i was able to ride out fine...so don't be discouraged, just ride safely. It's a great set of trails that we only saw a bit of, there's tons of options to make a whole day of it, and you're surrounded by the most incredible scenery anywhere, so enjoy it. It's a popular park for bikes, dogs, and walkers, so remember to watch & yield.

Similar Trail: Palmer Park, Ute Valley