Despite a serious lack of public land, Texas mountain bikers have carved out fantastic trails across the Lone Star State — from desert singletrack in El Paso to lift-served downhill in the Hill Country.
When the Woodstock Area Mountain Bike Association asked a historic luxury resort for permission to build trails, they kicked off an unlikely partnership that's bringing a new crowd to one of Vermont's wealthiest towns.
Eroding trails at Lake Thunderbird were contaminating Norman's drinking water supply. Now, a federal grant is funding a complete rebuild that will cut mileage in half but deliver modern, maintainable singletrack.
Just outside Portland, Maine, a 400-acre historic property is being transformed into a 12-mile trail system with adaptive-accessible gravity trails and double-black rock features.
Wilderness Tours has been guiding whitewater adventures on the Ottawa River for 50 years, but their newest attraction is 25km of MTB trails... with more on the way.