The Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition and county parks are proposing three new trails at Lookout Mountain Forest Preserve, including a hand-built descending-only trail.
Baker's Park in Silverton, Colorado, adds 10 miles of new singletrack across 11 trails with over $1 million in grants, creating high-elevation flow trails near the tiny mountain town.
Brule River State Forest had singletrack but it was only open to hikers. Switching the trail to multi-use created a good problem for the area: they would need a lot more trails. Now, the forest boasts 9 miles and counting.
A phased proposal could grow Ponderosa State Park's bike trails by nearly 50%, adding about four miles of purpose-built singletrack to ease crowding near McCall.
Built with input from adaptive athletes and funded by a coalition of donors, including REI and the Albertson Family Foundation, the 5.5-mile Kevin Pavlis Park trail system outside Boise just opened in May.
Thanks to a $55,000 grant from Shimano's Trail Born Fund, Wentworth Ski Hill is building a race-ready double black that will be the only trail of its kind east of Quebec.
One of British Columbia's first legal mountain bike trails — and the marquee descent that anchored the legendary Test of Metal race — is getting a full rebuild from Gravity Logic and one of its original builders, some three decades on.
In this podcast, Hunter Allen shares how time-strapped mountain bikers can add structure to their riding, manage recovery as they age, and make sense of fitness data like continuous glucose readings.
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