List of Trails (beta)

Epic trails, multi-day trails, bike-packing, whatever you want to call them, everyone dreams of doing them, but few do. So, pick one, get some friends together, and get out and do it! Whether you self-support, organize your own sag wagon, or pay for a guide company, you'll talk about it for years to come. Most go through beautiful and historically important areas and include a wide variety of trail, since many of them are made up of pre-existing trails with new connectors.

I have done the Kokopelli several times and the White Rim and Maah Daah Hey once. I hope to do a TransAlp and the Telluride-Moab in the next couple of years, as well as beginning an annual White Rim in a Day. Care to join me?

79-100 miles
Mineral Bottom Road collapsed!

On August 19th, 2010 a storm caused some serious damage to the Mineral Bottom road and other parts of the White Rim trail.

"While the Mineral Bottom road and the White Rim trail saw the most significant damage from the storm, several other roads in the area also were affected"

As of the end of August, BLM and county officials are still surveying and planning for...

142 miles

The Kokopelli Trail connects the mountain biking giants of Fruita and Moab, making it probably the most famous multi-day trail. The trail connects singletrack, sandy roads, dirt roads, occasional mud roads, and even some pavement, sometimes giving the trail a bad name. Singletrack is a minor part of the trail, and the scenery isn't as nice as the White Rim, but it's variety and fame make it worth doing. It has great access for support...

96-145 miles

Can anyone argue with over 100 miles of gorgeous singletrack? The grasslands and badlands of North Dakota set the stage for this trail, whose popularity is quickly growing, but stymied by its isolation. The trail has a good mix of challenging, technical single track across the rugged badlands and easy cruising along the flat, grassy tablelands.

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Now comprised of two self-guided hut-to-hut trail systems: Telluride to Moab and Durango to Moab! They are private huts on National Forest Service land, so you have to pay to use them but the stocking and comfort level make this one of the best deals in self-guided tours you'll be able to find.

The Colorado Trail was designed as a hiking trail, but is useable by mountain bikes in all portions that don't pass through Wilderness Areas. The nearly 500 mile trail connects Denver with Durango and passes through some of Colorado's best known mountain biking spots and is almost all singletrack!

The third trail of the COPMOBA epic triangle follows a similar route as the Telluride-Moab hut trip, but is a little shorter and slightly north. The 100 mile Paradox Trail follows the stunning Paradox valley from Colorado's high plains to Moabs desert along trails and jeep roads and was put together by the COPMOBA (Colorado Plateu Mountain Bike Trail Association) in 1995. They are a great cause to support...

All the way from the Utah border to the Mexican border, this trail connects pine forests, desert, and mountains with tons of singletrack. When complete, the trail will span around 800 miles! The trail begins at the Coronado National Memorial near the US-Mexico border and moves north through parts of the Huachuca, Santa Rita, and Rincon Mountains; then through the Santa Catalina north of Tucson and the Mazatzal Mountains before ascending to...

The TransAlp is more than a system of trails for most German mountain bikers - it's a right-of-passage, nearly a requirement, despite being virtually unknown outside the Alpen countries. Rather than a trail, the TransAlp is any crossing of the Alps on a mountain bike. There are many routes over many passes, with a variety of departure and arrival points. Most of the riders ride from north to south, with Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany to Riva...

A two and a half thousand mile mountain bike trail? This trail nearly follows the Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico (and now extends into Canada!) through some of the most beautiful states in the US: Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.

Adventure Cycling (the creators of the trail) have a Great Divide Trail summary page and a page with a...

143 miles

This 143 mile trail from Montrose to Grand Junction was put together by the COPMOBA (Colorado Plateu Mountain Bike Trail Association) in 1990. Its name comes from the Uncompaghre Plateu and runs from Grand Junction to Montrose. It is one of the three legs of the Grand Loop, a large triangle formed also by the Kokopelli and Paradox trails.

COPMOBA has printed versions of...

This is a really promising proposed trail that would lie to the west of the Great Divide Trail and include stretches in the Wasatch and the Arizona Trail.

The official Great Western Trail site has a map overview

The...

The Czech Greenway connects Prague to Vienna via a series of roads and trails passing through villages and culturally important places that will let you see more of what the Czech Republic is in seven days than staying in Prague for a year would! The Greenway is a bit rough for a road bike, and not quite rough enough for fat knobbies, but is ideal for a fat-tired tourer, cyclo-crosser, hybrid, or mountain bike with some less aggressive tires...

Mountain Biking in Florida? Is it possible? I was shocked when I saw the pictures. There may not be mountains, but the trails in Alafia State Park looked great.

All of this information, including images was gleaned from the swampclub website or its member websites.

Directions to Alafia - How to Get There

From Ocala or Tampa on I-75