Everything You Need to Know About Mountain Biking Prescott National Forest
Central Arizona lives and breathes the Wild West. Sandwiched between three other National Forests beats a sandy jewel, nourished with vessels of trail coursing through the saguaro-laden Sonoran desert. Dirt veins dotted with scrub oak and manzanita wind up and around the granite peaks and pine-covered mountains that amplify the revered appeal of the region. …
313 SHARES | 4 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Experiencing the Greens and Blues of Croatia on a Mountain Bike
With the clang of a church bell a flock of pigeons are disturbed from their roost and explode into the early morning haze. From the walled vantage point over the valley floor below, I momentarily step back into the medieval ages, but quickly snap to as I glance down at the blue fluorescent bike leaning up …
194 SHARES | 0 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Massive TexPlex Park in Texas Offers Mountain Bike Trails, Heavy Machinery Play Area
As the saying goes, “everything is bigger in Texas,” and apparently that includes mountain bike parks too. On June 3 TexPlex opens to the public, offering not just a mountain bike park and singletrack trails, but also jet boat rides and a heavy machinery play area. The Bike Trails TexPlex has set aside 250 acres for mountain …
242 SHARES | 1 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Trail TV: Living A Dirt Lover’s Dream in Tucson
Take on Tucson and you’ll be immersing yourself in some heavy duty bike culture and a tangle of sweet singletrack that stretches for hundreds of miles into the beautiful and unimaginable Sonoran Desert. If you were to make a list of places you want to call home in your next life, this one better be …
192 SHARES | 0 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Bike Trail Connoisseurs Can Identify a Trail by its Builder
Years ago I had a chance to ride several trails within the CAMBA system in Northern Wisconsin, and on that trip someone mentioned that many sections within the trail system were built and/or designed by different individuals. It was said that regular CAMBA riders could tell who designed each section based on that trail builder’s style. It …
39 SHARES | 0 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Five2Ride: 5 of the Best MTB Trails in New Mexico
Although I don’t actually live in New Mexico, I spend a great deal of time there and it has become like a second home. Thanks to a work schedule that often takes me south of the (Colorado) border, I’ve had the privilege of riding over 40 trail systems in this most underrated of mountain biking …
108 SHARES | 4 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Most Popular Mountain Bike Trails in the US and Canada, State-by-State (2017)
Singletracks collects trail reviews from thousands of mountain bikers each year, and we use the ratings from those reviews to rank the best trails. Not only do we consider each trail’s average rating and the number of ratings, but we also include a measure of how many people want to ride or have ridden a particular trail …
1,667 SHARES | 7 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Watch: Alaska or Bus’t – The Ultimate Road Trip
Alaska, one of the most sparsely populated areas in the world, has always been a dream destination for 28-year-old mountain biker Andrew Taylor. However, the distance of nearly 5,000 kilometers from his hometown Santa Cruz always kept him from jumping into his truck and simply driving. But one day he stumbles over an old school …
73 SHARES | 0 COMMENTS | Continue reading »New Bike Legal Singletrack in Marin: Is It Enough?
Ah, Marin. “The birthplace of mountain biking,” they say. And they speak the truth. The legends of the sport hail from here and can still be spotted on the slopes of Mt. Tam. This place is a cornucopia of landscapes and ecotones. Dry, stubby chaparral clutches rare serpentine rock, gnarled mahogany fingers around sage-green earth. …
225 SHARES | 9 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Five2Ride: 5 of the Best Mountain Bike Trails in Colorado
Colorado really needs no introduction to anyone who might utter the phrase, “I am a mountain biker.” The mountains in Colorado are some of the biggest and most majestic you’ll find anywhere, and the singletrack is similarly some of the most lust-worthy and enjoyable. But what makes Colorado so unique isn’t the huge mountains and …
707 SHARES | 12 COMMENTS | Continue reading »10 Days Spent Exploring Peru’s Sacred Valley
“Un coche en la calle.” It was one of the first phrases my brother and I learned in Spanish. It means “a car on the street,” but to us it meant a lot more. See, my brother and I lived in separate cities, and we missed each other a lot. Taking a Spanish class was …
186 SHARES | 8 COMMENTS | Continue reading »Making the Same Mistake Twice – Never a Good thing!
We’ve all heard it before: “It’s okay to make a mistake, so long as you don’t make the same mistake twice.” Simple as it is, there’s much wisdom in that statement. As a corollary, I’ve always tried to live by the mantra that mistakes are okay so long as they don’t negatively impact others. But …
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