The new Fourmile Mountain Bike Park in Des Moines, Iowa, is the biggest dedicated mountain bike park in the region.
Thanks to a massive effort from Pisgah Area SORBA's sawyer crews and volunteers, trails in the Pisgah National Forest near Asheville, NC, are slowly reopening to mountain bikes.
With the help of World Ride and Bhutan Rides, four native Bhutanese women are training to become the country's first female mountain bike guides.
Mountain bike trails require ongoing maintenance, though that's often easier said than done.
Steep trails aren't sustainable. Riding in the mud is bad form. Yet as I discovered, there are places where those rules don't apply.
Even though trail building trends may develop more slowly than MTB tech trends, here are five important trends that we tracked in 2024, plus three trail building hot spots on the rise.
The EXPLORE Act has passed Congress, and it will have many positive impacts for mountain bikers.
New trails have been built at Cline Butte, and more are proposed at Horse Ridge in Bend, OR. But will the "official" involvement in these trail systems threaten historic trails and e-bike access?
The Toiyabe Crest Trail runs for 70 miles one-way and had not seen a trail crew work on it in four decades.
The WinMan Trails in Winchester, Wisconsin, are an outdoor wonderland. These professionally-built mountain bike trails have quite the unusual back story...
After sifting through hundreds of nominations, here are 9 of the best new mountain bike trails in the USA across 7 different categories that opened in 2024.
Trailhead facilities and amenities are nice to have, though there are costs associated with each addition.
The Cobalt Trail in Colorado's Boulder Valley Ranch has been rebuilt and opened to mountain bikes.
Hell Hole DH will soon offer five miles of uninterrupted shuttle-served descending outside of St. George, Utah.
The Driving Range in Bolton, Vermont, was designed specifically for adaptive mountain bikers — and it includes some seriously-gnarly double black diamond trails!
Mason City, Iowa, has invested $13 million in recreational infrastructure, with singletrack trails, a paved bike park, and two pump tracks as the focal point.
Historic trails in Janesville, Wisconsin, including a renegade jump line, were destroyed to make way for a dog park. Now, new trails have been built across the street.
A total of 21 miles of singletrack is planned for Bean Peaks in Prescott, AZ, with completion anticipated for spring 2026.
The Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance has built two brand-new trail systems and a total of over 40 new trails across the state of Washington in 2024.
The ACT Greens have promised $1.2 million for trail developments in key trail systems near Canberra, Australia, such as Stromlo Forest Park.
The new Satan's Ridge trail in New Hartford, CT, boasts three miles of brutally-technical singletrack that's guaranteed to challenge even the best of riders.
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming has dramatically expanded and improved its bike park over the last five years. Here are the six newest trails added to the bike park.
The Dragon is an epic bike-specific 45-mile singletrack loop that was just completed around a lake near Newaygo, MI.
Trails rated beginner and intermediate difficulty tend to be more common than advanced and expert trails in most areas.
The new Cutthroat Trail in the San Juan National Forest near Durango, CO, has been designed specifically for e-bikes.
The new First Blood trail is "the first signature mountain bike trail" in Hope, BC. This singletrack masterpiece promises to revolutionize the mountain bike scene in this small BC town.
The small town of Pioche, Nevada, is looking to reinvent itself with the construction of a brand new mountain bike trail system.
The iconic Womble and Syllamo trails in Arkansas will soon be open to all three classes of e-bikes, including throttle-assist Class 2 e-bikes and Class 3 e-bikes capable of achieving 28mph.
We all have a tendency to think that our trails are the hardest. But how do you really determine how difficult a mountain bike ride is? In this article, we examine three variables that impact ride difficulty.
The US Forest Service is planning to dismantle jumps and shave down the berms and rollers of a popular trail in Nevada City, CA.
The Casper Mountain trail system outside the town of Casper, WY, is expanding dramatically, from 10 miles to 23 miles.
They built it — now you need to ride it. Tim and John spent a day ripping the raw desert singletrack in Caliente, Nevada, just 150 miles from the Las Vegas strip.
Payson is quickly making a name for itself in the Arizona mountain bike scene, with 8 miles of social trails getting legalized and 6 miles of new trails in the works.
The Elliotsville Foundation, Inc. is developing an 84-mile mountain bike trail system on a 10,000-acre tract of land that they own in Piscataquis County, Maine.
The Wambenger Trails network in and around Wellington National Park has expanded to nearly 175km, making it the largest mountain bike trail system in Western Australia. The expansion is part of an effort by the town of Collie to position itself as a major mountain bike destination.
Two of the most popular trails in St. George — the Zen Trail and Bearclaw Poppy — could be destroyed if the Utah State Trust succeeds in selling a parcel of land to real estate developers.
A group of volunteer trail builders in North Vancouver has built three aesthetic skinny lines deep in the forest on Mount Fromme.
The 34-mile Palisade Plunge is a brutal ride that routinely leaves riders out of water and fearing for their lives, which is why one of the largest shuttle companies and local bike shops wants you to listen to their warnings.
A local Tahoe mountain biker is leading the charge to build the 550-mile Sierra Camino Trail. The Sierra Camino will form the Sierra Nevada segment of the massive 5,000-mile Orogenesis Trail, which will eventually span from Cabo to Canada.
They say "the house always wins," but what happens if you leave the casinos behind and explore the epic trails surrounding Las Vegas, NV? Tim dives deep into some lesser-known trails and leaves wanting more.
The Flathead Area Mountain Bikers are working to resurrect the Historic Ridge Trail near Whitefish, Montana. Once work is complete, it will connect to the Ralph Tayer Memorial Trail, creating a 23-mile high alpine epic.
We're seeing shuttle-served bike parks operating on private land spring up all around the world — and for good reasons.
Hurricane Helene devastated the more than 100 miles of singletrack in and around Augusta, GA. Local volunteers recently focused their efforts to re-open at least one trail for mountain biking.
The historic Highline Trail is currently being rehabilitated with lengthy reroutes, promising to turn Payson, AZ, into a bikepacking destination.
15 miles of new, sanctioned singletrack is coming to Bigfork, Montana's Crane Mountain — including the Flathead National Forest's first mountain bike-specific trails.
The Indian Peaks Traverse project in Colorado is slowly making headway, thanks to the new 5-mile Kinglet trail near Nederland. However, a missing 1,200-foot trail segment is preventing a critical legal trail connection.
A 9-mile trail system is coming to Oak Hill, West Virginia, located just outside of the New River Gorge National Park.
The first trails to open in Silverton's new Baker's Park trail system might be the first high elevation machine-built flow trails outside of a bike park in Colorado.
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