This week we added the 700th mountain bike trail map to singletracks and it’s amazing to see how many people are riding with GPS units these days compared to just a couple years ago. Officially singletracks members have mapped 706 trails covering 8,409 trail miles and 1.5 million feet of climbing (!). Assuming someone could ride each trail at an average speed of 9mph it would take a person nearly 40 days of continuous riding to cover all the trails. Of course you’d need to factor in some travel time since the mapped trails span 4 continents!

We’re constantly working to improve the map data and just yesterday we rolled out new and improved elevation profiles on all the maps (see the image above). Even bigger improvements are in the works including high res maps and easier GPS data uploads/downloads.

Don’t forget we’re giving away $10 HuckNRoll.com coupons with every subscription purchase this month while supplies last. Now is a great time to upgrade your membership to take advantage of this amazing resource!

Most MTB trail maps by state

Colorado: 136 maps
California: 86 maps
Georgia: 53 maps
North Carolina: 53 maps
Wyoming: 37 maps

On Wednesday we announced our project to pinpoint singletracks trails on a Google Map and we’re stoked to report that we’ve received nearly 100 trails locations in just 36 hours - keep ‘em coming! Other cool features that were added this week:

• New trail map interface. Trail maps still look *mostly* the same but we’ve added a tab that allows you to view tracks and waypoints on an interactive Google Map in addition to the topo view (screen shot above). We’ve also cleaned up the look a bit and added a quick link to take you back to the trail listing page (don’t know why we didn’t do that sooner). Up next: improving the trail listing pages and adding more trail map download options…
• Video comments and ratings: Yep, now you can rate and comment on YouTube, Vimeo, and Broadband Sports videos without leaving singletracks. We’ve also added support for more video services like Viddler and VHoldR.
• Good news for lurkers: now you can share your two cents on our MTB gear reviews without signing up for a (free) singletracks account. The tradeoff: guest reviews will be moderated before they’re posted and you won’t receive any contribution points for your efforts.

That’s it for now, thanks to everyone for their feedback and help with all the new stuff. Ride hard this weekend!

It’s the feature request we hear most often: offer a searchable (Google) map of mountain bike trailhead locations on singletracks. We love the idea ourselves but it turns out it’s a little complicated since most mountain bike trails don’t have street addresses (no mailboxes either - strange).

Anyway… We need your help! We just added a function that lets you pinpoint MTB trail locations on a Google Map - it’s simple and should only take a second. The good news is that we already have a head start from the 600+ trails with GPS data plus another 100 trails we’ve located ourselves. The bad news is that’s still just 25% of the entire singletracks trail catalog and we figure it really doesn’t make sense to put up state maps until at least 50% of the trails have been located.

There are no contribution points this time around and it’s not a contest - it’s a goodwill, help out the community kind of thing (though we reserve the right to randomly reward folks with gear from the schwag bag ).  Once we locate 50% of the trail catalog we’ll post new and improved maps for finding and viewing MTB trails. In the meantime you’ll be able to get driving directions and view trailhead maps of those trails that have already been pinpointed.

We’ll keep everyone posted on the progress here on the blog and in the forums - maybe we should get one of those cartoon thermometers and fill it in as we go… Sweet.