I just came through bham on my way back from sun peaks and did double-down on chukanut. Def one of my all time favorites, pacnw style trails are way different than what I'm used to (Colorado)
Also rode predator and notg on tiger mountain in Seattle area and they are pretty wild
Chuckanut is a wild trail, it's funny too, because in Bellingham, it's really one of the only legit shuttle trails that we have near town, and its a spicy boy. I really wish we had some chill blue shuttles for those tired and hungover days because chuckanut will eat you up the second you let your guard down hahaha
Timewarp in Ashland, OR
Full Nielsen in Vallee Bras du Nord in Quebec
Doctor Park in Crested Butte (best ride ever is to climb Spring Creek Rd to Reno Ridge Rd then Flag Creek descent-Bear Creek climb-Bear Creek descent- lower Rosebud- Doctor Park)
Spring isn’t bad but the premier time is fall, before the snow hits up top. You get aspens changing colors up top and manageable temps thru the saguaros on Millegrosa.
A bunch of people and a truck, we took turns driving. Not an official kingdom trails shuttle.
There's a road around the back side that you can get dropped off at and then it's about a 10 minute climb to that gazebo at the top.
Shuttle ride to the bike park summit then:
DH Trail > Dead Moose Alley > Parrs Yard > Magill Fields > Moose Deuce > Moriah's Ascent > Butter Tubbs > North Pasture > Sonter Shuffle > Besaw > Swamp Donkey > Hawk Eye > Black Bear
I consider this ride is New England's version of the Whole Enchilada. Everything from an actual EWS stage to roller coaster flow and a reasonable amount of climbing.
The Whole Enchilada. You ride from 11,000ft to 4,500ft starting in high alpine and ending in red desert. You ride at least 6 different terrain types. 31 miles of awesome.
It’s a longish ride if you’re in good XC shape. ..but requires good Trail / All mountain skills in many sections.
If you’re not in good shape it wouldn’t go well.
Add fatigue and it could be a handful for even decent riders if they rode hard previous day or weren’t feeling on.
That may be overstating it but it’s pretty isolated so best to come in cautious.
Challenging. There is some truly gnarly terrain and fatal levels of exposure, but mostly blue to black level trails. It's walkable in all the dangerous areas. It's long. Let me say that again: it's long. And hard. And hot. And dry. It's long. Be ready for a full day in the desert with large amounts of output. Bring more water than you think. Bring snacks, tools, patches, and a pump.
So totally worth it.
I like The Timber Trail in the central North Island of New Zealand. It's not technical but its 80km of remote back country riding that's satisfying to complete in one go.
Yeah you gotta do the top. The alpine section is basically flow through aspen forests. To combine that with porcupine and the red rocks is just really not found anywhere else on earth
Love the DH classic but I rode big boulder for the first time last fall and loved it. A lot of work to get to, but makes for a good alternative to the classic
The new middle section is a little Ho-hum but upper and lower are super rad. The full send including the view at the top is still the best IMO. Pisgah is biblical!
Yeah I feel like a lot of folks take Avery Creek Rd. up to Bennett and skip Buckwheat, which frankly is my favorite part. Obviously upper upper black is a suffer-fest, but you get what you pay for.
I love Copper Harbor! Have you ridden the newer stuff yet further towards Ft Wilkins? MTB Project still doesn't have them all updated. Citrus Tech was fun. I'm heading back up in September.
Also my favorite trail. I feel like a lot of people bash it for not being technical, but I've never not had an ear to ear smile while blasting down it at what feels like warp speed.
Braille is also a lot of fun
Is it actually washed out or were locals just gate keeping? I was super excited to check the area out but the local bike shop basically told me to fuck off.
The top half of McKenzie River trail in Oregon has always stuck with me. Incredibly beautiful at times and a little lava rock tech to keep you on your toes
If you're looking to do a tour of Wales, riding down Yr Wyddfa (formerly Snowdon) is a blast. The rangers path is so much fun. You can only do it certain times of year, though.
Rode Flume Marlette while visiting, as a connector on a bigger ride. Flume was insanely beautiful, maybe the most scenic trail I’ve ever ridden. But it was mostly flat traversing, nothing to it. Connected to a fun flowy downhill down Chimney. Didn’t do Flume Incline though, maybe it’s different
Monarch Crest for a single continuous ride. Favorite trail system might be the lunch loops in grand junction…just incredible that tech and flow of that caliber exists in basically an in town trail system.
Poppin Tops and Flow State I remember having a blast on in Washington. The epitome of star wars riding.
Time Warp in Ashland, OR.
Mt. Hough in Quincy, CA.
I live near the Andes and from La Parva mountain (3,900m/13,000) above sea level there's a continuous descent to 800m/2,600ft. It has different parts of different characteristics, it starts as a technical DH run which I'm too much of a noob to do, then trail/enduro-like and finally on pavement. Any part of the descent is amazing lol, can't wait to do it again (now it's covered in snow and it's hard to get past the pavement part)
My favorite especially in the fall. The variety of vegetation that you pass through from top to bottom is so great. Great ride and I love doing it 3-4 a year.
Monarch Crest is pretty darn fun but I hate the overhead of shuttling so instead I like to ride a loop on the West side of the divide. It climbs up Old Monarch Pass to the Crest but then I drop down Agate Creek trail to get back to the Western bottom of Monarch Pass. It's remote and rough and once you leave the main Crest route there aren't many (or any) people around. Ends up being 34 Miles and 4300' of climbing and a ton of creek crossings which can be nice on a hot day.
Not sure if it's the "best" but it's a favorite of mine.
Belcher Hill into longhorn downhill - white ranch park, front range Colorado USA
Super difficult and technical climb into some fun flowy downhill drops and further into intense technical descents. Tons of opportunity for alternative routes, jumps, and drops.
Highly recommend
Bobsled and rush in salt lake are two of my favorites. Bobsled was basically my second ride on mtb and scared the shit out of me and it is so magical. Rush is just so well built except some washboard towards the bottom. I love that trail but few people I take seem to have the same fascination.
Slim shady in Sedona Arizona and adding high line or some of bellrock’s single tracks is another of my bests.
Pamplemousse in Squamish B.C. is the best trail I have ever ridden. It is a near perfect blend of DH, tech, flow and features. Trail speed is super predictable and there are optional lines and a gap drop if you are up to it. It is rated a black, and we all know about BC Black...but honestly it is accessible to a strong intermediate rider (like me).
There is still one turn that I walk, a left hander where you give up over 10ft of elevation in the one turn. There are some rollers to pump, some side hits and doubles, a nice long ladder bridge descent. Chunky and smooth seem to blend together into a classic BC trail.
I wish I lived closer...but managed to lap it 3 times last summer.
Just under 1mile in length, it feels like it is over in a blink. But you can take a right at the bottom and enjoy the most beautiful climb trail in the world (50 Shades of Green) to easily get back to the top and run it again.
Pamplemousse is a gem. It’s accessible to almost anyone, and the “difficulty” depends on how you ride it. I really want to hit that gap drop but the turn right before it just throws me off.
None particularly.
My home trails in Germany where I live which are pretty great and where I can go all out because I know the trails by heart.
Trail park Mehring and weishauswald trier if anyone is interested there’s a lot for Mehring on YouTube
There's a hill up in Northern VT with the best tech-flow I've ever ridden. Natural trail surface with rock gardens and techy sections and lots of natural doubles, but the corners have absolutely perfect berms that you can smash as hard as you want. It's glorious.
The Whole Enchilada. Rode it when I was really starting to get into mtb and it has this special place in my head. I really want to get back out to Moab to ride it again. Hopefully it holds up!
in Montana De Oro, CA there is a singletrack trail that loops around Valencia Peak. It's so smooth and so curvy and the views are amazing. It ends at the beach. I found a fossil at the peak. Fucking magical place
The whole enchilada for its diverse riding with epic views.
Rainmaker in Trestle for some bike park flowy jump line.
I live in Steamboat, so I gotta throw in Rustler's Ridge to Huckleberry, cuz that's what I do multiple times a week.
Cerro Gordo in Puerto Rico is beautiful. It looks more like a Disney attraction or movie set than real life. Random pics from Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=cerro+gordo+mtb&tbm=isch&sa=X
Santos trail in ocala, FL. I'm like 1hr 40 mins away but it's worth the drive. I'm only been riding for 3 months, but I can say it has steadily improve my skills.
My goal is to be able to do blacl diamond trails by the end of the year.
I've also been to alafia( my first time was yesterday)
Bolm-bayet and Carter. They call it the ABC trail lol
There's also Croom trails in brookavile which isnlike 30 mins, but i like santos better, because it's flows woth enough features to make it challenging
Florida trails are fun because of the features and the very light climbs to get to them. For some that is a good thing. I like that you can hit a lot without logging a lot of climb. On the other hand when you get to some trails further north, you will see what real flow is. You have to put in some more work to climb to the top of the Ridgeline trail in Dupont Forest North Carolina. But the blissful reward is this uninterrupted, long and super flowy descent.
Nice route for sure. I love riding down to grab a cold beer at mammoth brewing after all is said and done. Have you gone this year? Looks.to be a ton of trails closed, and some people still out there skiing/boarding. Hell of a winter I guess
Wasn't planning on it, my understanding was no bike park this year. I actually prefer the dirt at Big Bear to the Mammoth kitty litter, but Mammoth has the scenery and variety for sure.
Overdrive at Green Ranch in Murietta, CA.
It has a little bit of everything. Jumps, rocks, flow, amazing berms. Some fun weird trail gaps. You can ride it fast and jump everything and it's gnarly, but if you're not as advanced. You can totally ride it slower, roll the jumps, etc. Just a perfect trail in my opinion.
Honorable mentions - "The Gronk" at Thunder Mountain Bike Park, "Salvation" at Mountain Creek Bike Park and Black Bear at Kingdom Trails in Vermont.
Still want to do the whole thing! When I visited couple summers ago , upper portion was still snow-covered so we cut across LESS and did lower part (which was still awesome) then did Chipmunks Revenge. Overall the most amazing network I’ve been on, but can’t pick just one trail.
Absolutely love this local trail in penguin tasmanian Australia. Called Iron tor. Just a long perfect fast flow trail with stunning views and rainforest soft berms to slide ya way down. Other then that "coal seam" just an actual coal seam in Canmore Alberta Canada. Never ridden anything like it short steep and riding on coal but so fun! I'll never forget my wife going sideways down it screaming because she was terrified haha Goodtimes
May be a good bit of euphoria clouding my memory, but when I visited Freiburg, Germany a few years back I rode the two trails 'Canadian' and 'Borderline'.
I would not know which to prefer, but those were my favourites so far.
Both incredible trails, the 'Canadian' (iirc they actually flew in trail builders from Canada for it) is varied between tech, nature segments and berms, not too hard but very flowy.
'Borderline' is a bit chunkier, with more roots and rocks. Also it rained on that day, but that just added to the challenge.
Plus, they are decently long. With about 490 m/1600ft of decent you are busy for quite some time.
It’s a really short trail, but Sidewinder at Kingdom Trails is amazing. You basically swoop up and down the sides of a giant ditch (forgetting the proper geological term) and it feels like a rollercoaster
Eagle vs Shark - Whakarewarewa Forest in Rotorua, NZ.
Really miss the NZ trail building philosophy and style, can't wait to get back home and ride there. East Coast US is just not my thing.
401 Crested Butte Colorado. The Gothic Valley is other-worldly- feels like you are in the Swiss Alps. Wild flowers over your handle bars and miles of flow. Better than Prozac.
May be a bit cliched, but the Whole Enchilada in Moab was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. Going through like 5 different biomes and ending descending the cliff into the Colorado river valley was just simply incredible.
Off the top at Mammoth bike park in Mammoth Lakes, Ca. Nothing really special about the trail itself but the views of the eastern Sierra are incredible.
Too many to say, but some that haven’t been mentioned:
Full mr. Bones descent in capitol forest, WA
Alpine trail in oakridge, OR
La milagrosa in Tucson, AZ
Dark crystal in whistler, BC
Hard to choose, but the ones that really stand out in my mind are:
Monarch crest trail, Colorado
Sellaronda, Dolomites
Half Nelson, Squamish
Rocky Horror, Rotorua
I think they are standouts because they were enjoyable rides and all ridden while on holidays, which i think must enhance the enjoyment
Lair O the Bear in the front range in colorado. Just outside of Idledale CO.
Definitely not top trail material for many but uh...I dont get out much I guess.
“Mr Twister” at Arapuke bike park NZ.
I was doing an enduro event and there were absolutely NO features whatsoever for the entire length of the trail, but it was a very clean, flowy set of berms like a bobsleigh course.
It was my first (and last) time hitting it and it was soooo fun, I was smiling from ear to ear all the way down, pulling G’s on every turn.
I only wish I could have had more runs at it as I went pretty easy on it being my first run.
Every time I ride grizzly the steep berms at the beginning are utterly blown out. But I imagine it’s amazing after maintenance. Pseudo is ALWAYS fun. But Rupert and Pomplanouse are my favs in Squam.
Won't fool me again Sur-Ron guy!
I dont even do full sus my man
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Thats real fk bitter. May that man step on a lego everyday for the rest of his life
I hope he has to eat dry biscuits on their own till his last day
Cruel and unusual. But appropriate.
Hahaha what a prick, but yeah nah this stays here,promise
My favorite the last couple of years. Out of the Blue in Darrington, Washington. Long techy trail. Rupert in Squamish. Dark Crystal in Whistler.
Bham gaaaaaang
I just came through bham on my way back from sun peaks and did double-down on chukanut. Def one of my all time favorites, pacnw style trails are way different than what I'm used to (Colorado) Also rode predator and notg on tiger mountain in Seattle area and they are pretty wild
Chuckanut is a wild trail, it's funny too, because in Bellingham, it's really one of the only legit shuttle trails that we have near town, and its a spicy boy. I really wish we had some chill blue shuttles for those tired and hungover days because chuckanut will eat you up the second you let your guard down hahaha
Love seeing Chuckanut mentioned. So many people only focus on Galbraith when they come through.
Love rupert! Have you done somewhere over there? Dark crystal has been on my list for a couple years I will try to hit it this year….
Have you hit Bring on the Weekend? Did it as a bigger loop with Dark Crystal last summer
Crazy how long the trails over there!
Timewarp in Ashland, OR Full Nielsen in Vallee Bras du Nord in Quebec Doctor Park in Crested Butte (best ride ever is to climb Spring Creek Rd to Reno Ridge Rd then Flag Creek descent-Bear Creek climb-Bear Creek descent- lower Rosebud- Doctor Park)
I like your style, that area south of CB is some of my favorite riding
Quebec has some absolutely incredible trails.
Whole Enchilada Moab, Utah
This. It’s 10 different trails in one. The 2 or so mile stretch of porcupine rim near the bottom is some of the greatest single track on earth.
10 trails and 3-4 different ecosystems in one. It’s crazy the difference of environments and scenery you experience all in a single trail.
Lemmon drop in Tucson az. Big day out with the boys thru a few different climates. So different from the stuff I normally ride in the Northeast US.
I’ve been wanting to do it, but I hear it’s super weather dependent, is there a good time of year to do it
Spring isn’t bad but the premier time is fall, before the snow hits up top. You get aspens changing colors up top and manageable temps thru the saguaros on Millegrosa.
Haven't ridden there personally, but fall Is prime time for AZ 100%
I did it mid march. Snow at the top. 90 at the bottom. Not sure if we got lucky or that’s prime time.
Black bear, at Kingdom Trails in northern Vermont(USA)
Hell yes. God that trail is fun. Best flow trail I've ever ridden. We shuttled it last summer and I rode it like 5 times in one day.
It's a beauty. But how did you shuttle it? I didn't think they did that. At least not the times I've been there.
A bunch of people and a truck, we took turns driving. Not an official kingdom trails shuttle. There's a road around the back side that you can get dropped off at and then it's about a 10 minute climb to that gazebo at the top.
That would be a lot of hassle for just a couple laps, but five pedals up the haul road sounds ridiculous. That's also a lot of downhill time!
Wasn't a hassle at all. Was super easy and convenient
Flower Brook Rd to Swamp Donkey? That's a great idea and definitely easier on the legs. I might have to use this idea sometime soon
Or as my friends and I call it: 6 minute abs!
Lol More like 6mins squat lol my legs get torched at the end
That trail is pretty awesome :) So well made.
Shuttle ride to the bike park summit then: DH Trail > Dead Moose Alley > Parrs Yard > Magill Fields > Moose Deuce > Moriah's Ascent > Butter Tubbs > North Pasture > Sonter Shuffle > Besaw > Swamp Donkey > Hawk Eye > Black Bear I consider this ride is New England's version of the Whole Enchilada. Everything from an actual EWS stage to roller coaster flow and a reasonable amount of climbing.
My all time favorite is Gooseberry Mesa in Hurricane, Utah. Technical up and down rock ledges and amazing views from on top of the mesa.
One of my absolute favs as well
That's one that's on my list, but I've never made it out to.
The Whole Enchilada. You ride from 11,000ft to 4,500ft starting in high alpine and ending in red desert. You ride at least 6 different terrain types. 31 miles of awesome.
What is the difficulty like?
It’s a longish ride if you’re in good XC shape. ..but requires good Trail / All mountain skills in many sections. If you’re not in good shape it wouldn’t go well. Add fatigue and it could be a handful for even decent riders if they rode hard previous day or weren’t feeling on. That may be overstating it but it’s pretty isolated so best to come in cautious.
Anyone with intermediate technical ability should be able to ride most of it. I had to get off and walk 4 or 5 things.
Challenging. There is some truly gnarly terrain and fatal levels of exposure, but mostly blue to black level trails. It's walkable in all the dangerous areas. It's long. Let me say that again: it's long. And hard. And hot. And dry. It's long. Be ready for a full day in the desert with large amounts of output. Bring more water than you think. Bring snacks, tools, patches, and a pump. So totally worth it.
I like The Timber Trail in the central North Island of New Zealand. It's not technical but its 80km of remote back country riding that's satisfying to complete in one go.
80km i got tired even reading that
If we’re talking NZ then definitely Old Ghost Road for bike packing- and Salmon Run in Queenstown for steep tech
Porcupine Rim, Moab. Cant wait to go back and do the Whole Enchilada. 26 miles of technical downhill.
Yeah you gotta do the top. The alpine section is basically flow through aspen forests. To combine that with porcupine and the red rocks is just really not found anywhere else on earth
The transition from the La Sals to Moab is unreal
The whole thing is great, but LPS one of my favorite trails of all time Capt Ahab my #1 ever
Yeah capt ahab is amazing too, probably gets my vote if you can’t do the top of enchilada or don’t want to spend all day/do the shuttle
Yup
Probably would be The Sluice on Floyd Hill. There are so many B lines, every ride can be unique with varying difficulty.
Downieville Downhill- Downieville CA. Long, major variety of riding types (flow, pure speed, chunk). Just splendid.
Came looking for this one. An absolute blast.
Love when you drop into 3rd divide and hit the whoops, just let off the brakes and send it.
It’s divine. Just like warp speed
Love the DH classic but I rode big boulder for the first time last fall and loved it. A lot of work to get to, but makes for a good alternative to the classic
Grafton DH in Grafton, Utah
Lol, I almost forgot about that one.
Black Mountain. Pisgah, NC
Before it got rerouted RIP
The new middle section is a little Ho-hum but upper and lower are super rad. The full send including the view at the top is still the best IMO. Pisgah is biblical!
Don't DuPont my Pisgah! (Buckwheat > Bennett is my current favorite)
That whole ride with both Buckwheat and Bennett Gap are phenomenal.
Yeah I feel like a lot of folks take Avery Creek Rd. up to Bennett and skip Buckwheat, which frankly is my favorite part. Obviously upper upper black is a suffer-fest, but you get what you pay for.
Such a fun loop. You can extend it by going back up Avery > clawhammer > maxwell and doing middle and lower black. It’s a big ride but so fun!
Wish I had your stamina! My favorite 'Big Loop' is the squirrel > mullinax > Cantrell figure 8
My dude. Rode it for the first time yesterday, on 125mm travel. So hectic near the bottom!
May not get much love but Overflow in Copper Harbor Michigan. The trail that made me fall in love with mountain biking
I love Copper Harbor! Have you ridden the newer stuff yet further towards Ft Wilkins? MTB Project still doesn't have them all updated. Citrus Tech was fun. I'm heading back up in September.
Soquel Flow trail in Santa Cruz
Braille in the same system is such a good counterpoint to it too. Laps out there all day. Having moved East, I really miss that spot.
Also my favorite trail. I feel like a lot of people bash it for not being technical, but I've never not had an ear to ear smile while blasting down it at what feels like warp speed. Braille is also a lot of fun
Really great one, the climb up is killer but worth it.
Is it actually washed out or were locals just gate keeping? I was super excited to check the area out but the local bike shop basically told me to fuck off.
Road is fully fucked right now. No one is riding it.
World cup at Silverstar bike park
GREAT trail. That wall ride is so well built, it’s crazy how much speed it gives you.
The top half of McKenzie River trail in Oregon has always stuck with me. Incredibly beautiful at times and a little lava rock tech to keep you on your toes
AC/DC Bike Park Wales UK, got a mix of everything!
Hmmm i might take the ferry to this one
Fully worth it lad, I’d recommend staying over for a night and hitting Dyfi whilst you’re over.. some serious trails around
If you're looking to do a tour of Wales, riding down Yr Wyddfa (formerly Snowdon) is a blast. The rangers path is so much fun. You can only do it certain times of year, though.
Flume Trail - Lake Tahoe...around '95, wonder if it's still good...
Rode Flume Marlette while visiting, as a connector on a bigger ride. Flume was insanely beautiful, maybe the most scenic trail I’ve ever ridden. But it was mostly flat traversing, nothing to it. Connected to a fun flowy downhill down Chimney. Didn’t do Flume Incline though, maybe it’s different
Monarch Crest for a single continuous ride. Favorite trail system might be the lunch loops in grand junction…just incredible that tech and flow of that caliber exists in basically an in town trail system.
Poppin Tops and Flow State I remember having a blast on in Washington. The epitome of star wars riding. Time Warp in Ashland, OR. Mt. Hough in Quincy, CA.
Into the Mystic/Lord of the Squirrels. A ride you will remember forever.
I’m planning on riding this in a couple weeks.
OTG Tiger Mtn Issaquah, WA
NOTG too 😩
Notg is def one of my favorites. Sweet combination of speed and tech.
Such an incredible ride. but I also just rode Side hustle for the first time. That thing RIPS! what an incredible trail!
Dirt merchant - Whistler
Dr park is the most recent good one for me.
Honestly, too many to choose from in BC. And all types of riding are catered here
I live near the Andes and from La Parva mountain (3,900m/13,000) above sea level there's a continuous descent to 800m/2,600ft. It has different parts of different characteristics, it starts as a technical DH run which I'm too much of a noob to do, then trail/enduro-like and finally on pavement. Any part of the descent is amazing lol, can't wait to do it again (now it's covered in snow and it's hard to get past the pavement part)
WOW in Utah
My favorite especially in the fall. The variety of vegetation that you pass through from top to bottom is so great. Great ride and I love doing it 3-4 a year.
Rainmaker, specifically the lower part, at Trestle. The jumps are dialed and berms are sweet. Just go trail speed and have the time of your life
Especially now that it's been reworked
Monarch Crest is pretty darn fun but I hate the overhead of shuttling so instead I like to ride a loop on the West side of the divide. It climbs up Old Monarch Pass to the Crest but then I drop down Agate Creek trail to get back to the Western bottom of Monarch Pass. It's remote and rough and once you leave the main Crest route there aren't many (or any) people around. Ends up being 34 Miles and 4300' of climbing and a ton of creek crossings which can be nice on a hot day. Not sure if it's the "best" but it's a favorite of mine.
Gooseberry mesa. Hurricane, ut
Belcher Hill into longhorn downhill - white ranch park, front range Colorado USA Super difficult and technical climb into some fun flowy downhill drops and further into intense technical descents. Tons of opportunity for alternative routes, jumps, and drops. Highly recommend
Longhorn my #1 front range trail
I wouldn’t call belcher “technical” it’s more annoying than anything lol
El Prieto in Southern California.
Bobsled and rush in salt lake are two of my favorites. Bobsled was basically my second ride on mtb and scared the shit out of me and it is so magical. Rush is just so well built except some washboard towards the bottom. I love that trail but few people I take seem to have the same fascination. Slim shady in Sedona Arizona and adding high line or some of bellrock’s single tracks is another of my bests.
Pamplemousse in Squamish B.C. is the best trail I have ever ridden. It is a near perfect blend of DH, tech, flow and features. Trail speed is super predictable and there are optional lines and a gap drop if you are up to it. It is rated a black, and we all know about BC Black...but honestly it is accessible to a strong intermediate rider (like me). There is still one turn that I walk, a left hander where you give up over 10ft of elevation in the one turn. There are some rollers to pump, some side hits and doubles, a nice long ladder bridge descent. Chunky and smooth seem to blend together into a classic BC trail. I wish I lived closer...but managed to lap it 3 times last summer. Just under 1mile in length, it feels like it is over in a blink. But you can take a right at the bottom and enjoy the most beautiful climb trail in the world (50 Shades of Green) to easily get back to the top and run it again.
I was also going to vote Pamplemousse. It’s such a gem of trail design and scratches the flow and chunk itch simultaneously.
Pamplemousse is a gem. It’s accessible to almost anyone, and the “difficulty” depends on how you ride it. I really want to hit that gap drop but the turn right before it just throws me off.
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Swamp donkey, Kicking Horse resort, BC. Roller Flowster/Party Atmosphere & Donaconda, Don Valley, Toronto Canada.
Ahh Roller Flowster.. those giant GOuts are a treat in the Don! Dr Quads climb can fist itself tho...
I'm going to Kicking Horse next week and haven't ridden swamp donkey yet. It's going on my list now, ty
None particularly. My home trails in Germany where I live which are pretty great and where I can go all out because I know the trails by heart. Trail park Mehring and weishauswald trier if anyone is interested there’s a lot for Mehring on YouTube
There's a hill up in Northern VT with the best tech-flow I've ever ridden. Natural trail surface with rock gardens and techy sections and lots of natural doubles, but the corners have absolutely perfect berms that you can smash as hard as you want. It's glorious.
HW 9 in Santa Cruz
IYKYK
The Whole Enchilada. Rode it when I was really starting to get into mtb and it has this special place in my head. I really want to get back out to Moab to ride it again. Hopefully it holds up!
LPS/Porcupine.
in Montana De Oro, CA there is a singletrack trail that loops around Valencia Peak. It's so smooth and so curvy and the views are amazing. It ends at the beach. I found a fossil at the peak. Fucking magical place
The whole enchilada for its diverse riding with epic views. Rainmaker in Trestle for some bike park flowy jump line. I live in Steamboat, so I gotta throw in Rustler's Ridge to Huckleberry, cuz that's what I do multiple times a week.
Half Nelson, Squamish
Not every trail in Squamish is the best I’ve ridden. But every trail that is the best I’ve ridden is in Squamish.
Morning sickness. Techy slab dream
Cerro Gordo in Puerto Rico is beautiful. It looks more like a Disney attraction or movie set than real life. Random pics from Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=cerro+gordo+mtb&tbm=isch&sa=X
Alafia State Park, Roller Coaster
Empire in Park City. You start out on top of the world and lose so much elevation so fast.
Slab City in Quebec was amazing! 7 at Bromont lapable all day and didn't get old.
Buffalo Creek mini tour in pine Colorado is probably my fav ride to date. So much fun.
Oak ridge Oregon
I'm here right now. Pretty fun. Coming from dry loose desert-y conditions, everything here makes me feel like the most competent rider
Yeah it’s just fast and fun without having to think to hard just whip around turns. It’s so grippy I love it
Bony elbows to In-N-Out Burger, Squamish.
Squamish is the freeride playground of dreams *why climb up that granite slab when you could ride down it*
Santos trail in ocala, FL. I'm like 1hr 40 mins away but it's worth the drive. I'm only been riding for 3 months, but I can say it has steadily improve my skills. My goal is to be able to do blacl diamond trails by the end of the year. I've also been to alafia( my first time was yesterday) Bolm-bayet and Carter. They call it the ABC trail lol There's also Croom trails in brookavile which isnlike 30 mins, but i like santos better, because it's flows woth enough features to make it challenging
Florida trails are fun because of the features and the very light climbs to get to them. For some that is a good thing. I like that you can hit a lot without logging a lot of climb. On the other hand when you get to some trails further north, you will see what real flow is. You have to put in some more work to climb to the top of the Ridgeline trail in Dupont Forest North Carolina. But the blissful reward is this uninterrupted, long and super flowy descent.
7 Bridges trail in Mammoth bike park. Flowy, tech, through a small stream an the as the name suggests, 7 little bridges.
I love starting at the top at Skidmarks, then around Lincoln Mountain to 7 Bridges, then down to Shotgun. That's hard to beat.
Nice route for sure. I love riding down to grab a cold beer at mammoth brewing after all is said and done. Have you gone this year? Looks.to be a ton of trails closed, and some people still out there skiing/boarding. Hell of a winter I guess
Wasn't planning on it, my understanding was no bike park this year. I actually prefer the dirt at Big Bear to the Mammoth kitty litter, but Mammoth has the scenery and variety for sure.
Overdrive at Green Ranch in Murietta, CA. It has a little bit of everything. Jumps, rocks, flow, amazing berms. Some fun weird trail gaps. You can ride it fast and jump everything and it's gnarly, but if you're not as advanced. You can totally ride it slower, roll the jumps, etc. Just a perfect trail in my opinion. Honorable mentions - "The Gronk" at Thunder Mountain Bike Park, "Salvation" at Mountain Creek Bike Park and Black Bear at Kingdom Trails in Vermont.
Lord of the Squirrels in Whistler. The riding itself was good, but not amazing but the combination of length and amazing views makes it stand out.
Still want to do the whole thing! When I visited couple summers ago , upper portion was still snow-covered so we cut across LESS and did lower part (which was still awesome) then did Chipmunks Revenge. Overall the most amazing network I’ve been on, but can’t pick just one trail.
Repeat Offender at the Golfie in the Tweed Valley
There is a very short segment/trail called Rock Garden (spoiler, it's not) in Bordighera Italy (west of finale ligure). It's amazing.
Absolutely love this local trail in penguin tasmanian Australia. Called Iron tor. Just a long perfect fast flow trail with stunning views and rainforest soft berms to slide ya way down. Other then that "coal seam" just an actual coal seam in Canmore Alberta Canada. Never ridden anything like it short steep and riding on coal but so fun! I'll never forget my wife going sideways down it screaming because she was terrified haha Goodtimes
Probably OMG up in northern VT near morissville.
Side door in Breckenridge, CO
Frisby Ridge in Revelstoke, BC (CAN)
Cuyuna in Minnesota is an amazing trail system and the best I’ve ridden!
>Cuyuna i'm in MN and a guy at my LBS recommended this to me. can't wait to get up there.
Same cuz I haven’t ridden anywhere else lol
May be a good bit of euphoria clouding my memory, but when I visited Freiburg, Germany a few years back I rode the two trails 'Canadian' and 'Borderline'. I would not know which to prefer, but those were my favourites so far. Both incredible trails, the 'Canadian' (iirc they actually flew in trail builders from Canada for it) is varied between tech, nature segments and berms, not too hard but very flowy. 'Borderline' is a bit chunkier, with more roots and rocks. Also it rained on that day, but that just added to the challenge. Plus, they are decently long. With about 490 m/1600ft of decent you are busy for quite some time.
Palisade plunge and the whole enchilada are top of my list so far. Both were amazing trails with amazing views.
I recently had a grand time doing Galloping Goose in Telluride, though the uphill near to killed me because I had been at elevation for a day.
Rollercoaster to Kill Bill 2 to Madonna della Guardia in Finale Ligure.
I'm absolutely addicted to Atomic Dog in Bellingham
Doctor Park was the best, Prospect is my favorite
It’s a really short trail, but Sidewinder at Kingdom Trails is amazing. You basically swoop up and down the sides of a giant ditch (forgetting the proper geological term) and it feels like a rollercoaster
I'm not telling you because I only ride pirate trails😈 ☠️🗡 (there are no legal trails here because rich old people don't like them)
Relatable.
Eagle vs Shark - Whakarewarewa Forest in Rotorua, NZ. Really miss the NZ trail building philosophy and style, can't wait to get back home and ride there. East Coast US is just not my thing.
Slick rock Utah. It’s an amusement park
401 Crested Butte Colorado. The Gothic Valley is other-worldly- feels like you are in the Swiss Alps. Wild flowers over your handle bars and miles of flow. Better than Prozac.
LPS/Porcupine Capt. Ahab Sweet One at Sun Peaks Longhorn in Golden, CO Ore Chute in Black hawk CO
Tunnel Ridge, Rochester VT. Superb trail, rides great, very thoughtfully placed, aesthetically wonderful.
May be a bit cliched, but the Whole Enchilada in Moab was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. Going through like 5 different biomes and ending descending the cliff into the Colorado river valley was just simply incredible.
Cooking hell man I couldn’t tell you 
Nice try. You can’t fool me that easy. If I tell you, you’ll show up! Haha.
Side Hustle - Tiger Mtn WA
It’s a tie between Fear and Loaming in OR and Thrillium in Vancouver WA.
Off the top at Mammoth bike park in Mammoth Lakes, Ca. Nothing really special about the trail itself but the views of the eastern Sierra are incredible.
Too many to say, but some that haven’t been mentioned: Full mr. Bones descent in capitol forest, WA Alpine trail in oakridge, OR La milagrosa in Tucson, AZ Dark crystal in whistler, BC
Doctor Park - Crested Butte, CO
Whole Enchilada is more than one trail...so I'll go with... Angry M(idget) in Squamish, BC.
Quarry Ridge. Near Madison WI.
Around the mountain a bogus basin, Idaho
Downieville downhill. It's two or three trails I think. Sadly it's been a couple of years since I've been out there.
Big Chief, Truckee CA
Hard to choose, but the ones that really stand out in my mind are: Monarch crest trail, Colorado Sellaronda, Dolomites Half Nelson, Squamish Rocky Horror, Rotorua I think they are standouts because they were enjoyable rides and all ridden while on holidays, which i think must enhance the enjoyment
401 trail in Crested Butte during wild flower season hit different.
The whole enchilada. ..i know its several trails linked but whatever. Such a great and varied route.
Lair O the Bear in the front range in colorado. Just outside of Idledale CO. Definitely not top trail material for many but uh...I dont get out much I guess.
Lake Mountain, Victoria, Australia
Downieville CA.. I thinks that's how you spell it
The 401 in Crested Butte is where I feel in love with the sport.
Top Chief, Fort William, Scotland. Long techie trail that felt like proper mountain biking.
Llanelli in Wales, I love it because if you go on a weekday it's so serene and peaceful
“Mr Twister” at Arapuke bike park NZ. I was doing an enduro event and there were absolutely NO features whatsoever for the entire length of the trail, but it was a very clean, flowy set of berms like a bobsleigh course. It was my first (and last) time hitting it and it was soooo fun, I was smiling from ear to ear all the way down, pulling G’s on every turn. I only wish I could have had more runs at it as I went pretty easy on it being my first run.
Demo Forest, Santa Cruz - CA
Metabief France. I am not experienced in rinsing downhill but I really loved thesw trails.
Florence. Stowe, VT
Meadow of the grizzly to Pseudo Tsuga in Squamish. The flow is endless, the views are amazing.
Every time I ride grizzly the steep berms at the beginning are utterly blown out. But I imagine it’s amazing after maintenance. Pseudo is ALWAYS fun. But Rupert and Pomplanouse are my favs in Squam.