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Montana Mountain Bike Trails (62 trails)
 
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• 38 Special in York, Montana
This is trail is used for the York 38 Special. It features beatiful views, rolling terrain on gravel roads, and should appeal to those who feel the need to punish themselves for one thing or another.
The route rolls up and down, climbing around 2700'. Because of the terrain, however, ...
 Last reviewed: Jul 28, 2008
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• Airport Road Ditches in Kalispell, Montana
Ride across the intersection and head up the ditch trails along airport road
and up the hill for about 3.5 miles, turn around and head back down,
catching some air along the way on some small jumps. Do not drive a long
ways to ride this, but if you live in Kalispell, you could go hi...
Last reviewed: May 11, 2009
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• Beardance in Bigfork, Montana
Start climbing right off the bat up beardance trail 314, and hang a right on
trail 76 at the fork. climb until you hit forest road 498, and hang a left. ride
along that road until you can hook up with 314 and drop back down 314 all
the way to where you started. **This trail is not...
 Last reviewed: Oct 5, 2009
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• Beaver Ponds in Butte, Montana
Start by climbing just over a mile on the highway to a trailhead on the left. This is a seriously sweet piece of singletrack. The initial climb is brutal, but once on top, it turns into a very entertaining ride. Threre\'s some flowy singletrack followed by a beautiful descent. You will...
Last reviewed: Feb 24, 2009
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• Big Mtn in Whitefish, Montana
The Big Mtn has some great trails and some a very technical downhill. I like to ride the main trail from the village to the summit. It's 8 miles and climbs 2000 ft through beautiful alpine forest. The trail is graded and climbs gradually with many switchbacks. It is granny gear in many spo...
 Last reviewed: Nov 12, 2009
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• Big Snowy Mountains Loop in Lewistown, Montana
The Big Snowy mountains don't look like much from a distance, but once in them, they quickly become quite rugged, steep, and beautiful. To start the ride, go back down to the campground and take the trail that heads off to the right by the bathroom. After you descend a bit on the well ma...
Last reviewed: Aug 2, 2008
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• Bigfork Ditch Loop in Bigfork, Montana
In Montana, it is completely legal to run ATV's, dirtbikes, horses, and the
like in the ditches along the highways. This has actually created a rather
vast network of singletrack trails in the highway ditches. While rather flat
in most places, they stay snow free and so are ideal f...
Last reviewed: May 7, 2009
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• Bill Creek/trail #800 in Whitefish, Montana
Park where trail #800 crosses logan creek rd fs #2963. From there, start climbing up fs 2942. Climb for 5 miles, enjoy the views. You will pass a point where trail 800 will cross the road. Keep going. You will reach the top of a divide/ridge, and trail 800 will cross the road again. ...
Last reviewed: Sep 11, 2008
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• Blacktail Mountain Road in Lakeside, Montana
18 miles and roughly 4,000 vertical feet of climbing up to the top of Blacktail
Mountain via a dirt/gravel road... this is one epic ride up, and one epic ride
downtown! Take it from me: if it is just starting to warm in the valley, it will
still be freezing b*** cold at the summit ...
Last reviewed: May 4, 2009
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• Blue Mountain in Missoula, Montana
This is probably a great place to get a newby enthused. There are tons of trails, none of them threatening. There are a few snippets of good singletrack, but they are too short to really give this place a high recommendation. It's easily accessible, which means also very busy with hiker...
Last reviewed: Feb 18, 2008
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• Clark Fork River Trail #223 in St Regis, Montana
Old growth forest, you'll only hear the river and an occasional train on the other side. Trail has tech climbs on the canyon walls and some rock gardens. Hardly known, beautiful, cool, shady. Best trail I found in Montana.
Last reviewed: Sep 13, 2009
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• Collar Peak in Leistown, Montana
This trail is a real mixed bag. It has some of the sweetest flowing singletrack you can imagine. It also has some very loose and exceedingly steep climbs that will force dismounts. Overall, I'm not sure the pain is worth the pleasure on this one and nearby Limekiln Gulch makes for a bet...
Last reviewed: Aug 5, 2008
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• Eagle Scout Trail in Helena, Montana
The trail is pretty steep at first but there are plenty of switchbacks and it doesnt last that long. once you get to the top of the trail it leads a couple of different ways, one goes back into town, and one leads to the several other trails. some of these trails lead back to town, but one...
Last reviewed: Oct 31, 2009
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• Echo Lake Logging Roads in Bigfork, Montana
Head out beyond the gate on the paved road, and start looking for old
logging roads and ATV trails. There are a whole bunch lying around back in
there that run next to the lake in places, affording some good views of the
lake and the mountains. If you live in Bigfork, this may be w...
Last reviewed: May 11, 2009
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• Emerald Lake in Bozeman, Montana
Some consider this the best ride in Montana. There is a stiff, 2k ft climb to a gorgeous high alpine lake. Ofcourse, this makes for a killer downhill on the return. You can continue beyond Emerald Lake to Heather lake for an additional mile, but the best of the singletrack is already be...
Last reviewed: Aug 24, 2009
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• Flathead River Ranger Station in West Glacier, Montana
This is one of them few trails within a National Park that are designated for MTB use along with hikers & equestrians. The trail is on an old and overgrown road bed that goes through the forest and eventually leads to a high bluff over-looking the Middle Fork and the North Fork of the Flat...
Last reviewed: Oct 12, 2009
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• Grassy Mountain Loop in Bozeman, Montana
The rides starts with a long fire-road climb, stay on the main road to a large grassy meadow. The road descends slightly, take the single track here to the left until you meet an old boggy 4wd road. Continue on this road until you see another single track go right at a small meadow. Fol...
 Last reviewed: Jun 2, 2009
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• Grizzly Loop in Big Sky, Montana
Got it all. Fast, rolling singletrack. Tough granny gear climbs. Big-ring descents. Awesome views
of Lone Mountain and the Taylor Hilgard peaks.
Last reviewed: Aug 4, 2004
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• Herron Park/foys To Blacktail Trail in Kalispell, Montana
In Herron Park, singletrack spread around, with some old fire road climbs, and some fun descents. The Foys to Blacktail singletrack trail takes off from Herron Park and, when completed, will climb all the way to the Blacktail ski resort.
Last reviewed: Nov 11, 2008
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• Highland (CDT) in Butte, Montana
This is a new addition to the Continental Divide Trail. Go through the gate to the west with the CDT sign. There are a couple pieces of doubletrack--take the one with another CDT sign. As you reach the top of the first climb, look for singletrack to the right with yet another CDT sign h...
Last reviewed: Feb 20, 2009
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• Highway 206 Ditches in Columbia Falls, Montana
In Montana, it is completely legal to run ATV\'s, dirtbikes, horses, and the
like in the ditches along the highways. This has actually created a rather
vast network of singletrack trails in the highway ditches. While rather flat in
most places, they stay snow free and so are ideal fo...
Last reviewed: May 7, 2009
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• Highwood Ridge in Great Falls, Montana
This is a less-traveled route that gives you a different view of the Highwoods. There is less climbing than the Windy Mountain route, but the downhill isn't quite as much fun either. Start as you would on the Windy Mountain loop, heading up the North Fork of Highwood Creek. At 2.8 miles...
Last reviewed: Feb 17, 2008
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• Horse Trails And Logging Roads Near Strawberry Lake in Bigfork, Montana
The trail starts off on the right side of the road, and climbs steeply uphill
and loops around, crossing back over the road. When you reach the other
side of the road the trail joins a large nexus of unmarked
horse/atv/snowmobile/dirt bike trails that interconnect with abandoned
l...
Last reviewed: Jan 7, 2009
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• Jewel Basin Road in Bigfork, Montana
This is a killer of a gravel road climb! It does offer some gorgeous views, though.
Last reviewed: Dec 11, 2009
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• Johnson Peak/trixie Pass in Whitefish, Montana
I rode this as an out and back from the trailhead up FS 2904, but I looked at the Glacier Cyclery Ride Guide after I did this and was surprised to find it in there... they set it up as a 12-15 mile loop, but with only 3 miles of singletrack. So, you could loop it w/the gravel road, or rid...
Last reviewed: Sep 11, 2008
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