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Went to Oakridge last summer and got a sampling of the trails there. I don’t know about the "500" miles, but there are a lot of trails within a 1 1/2 hour drive of Oakridge. It’s a great "low hype" area. There’s one bike shop in town and maps are available of all the legal trails. In five days of all day riding in August I saw a total of 2 groups of riders, no hikers, no motorcycles, and no horses. And yet the trails are surprisingly well maintained by volunteer groups. The trails seem to be mostly old trails that have been cleaned up, not new trails, so sometimes they are not designed real well for MTB. Many of the rides involve climbing up logging roads and then descending on ST, although often there was a lot of climbing on the way down. Lots of nice wooded, rooty trails, big downhills, steep, tight switchbacks, bike pushes. Not much in the way of rock garden stuff. I highly recommend Youngs Point/Moon Rock trail then down to the end of the Middle Fork trail. Oh, and there are plenty of great campsites!

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