NEMBA has a very complete list of mountain biking events in the North East

The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) site has an incredible selection of trail maps for many state parks. Most are in gif format, some in pdf. Printed mapsare available at most parks. They also have a list of parks with even more info.

Mountain Biking in Massachusetts

• Places to mountain bike list from NEMBA (New England Mountain Bike Association)
• The Blackstone Valley NEMBA is a chapter of the New England Mountain Bike Association.
• The Rage Mountain Bike Club in north suburban Boston has a huge list of riders and a mailing list for hooking up with others for rides.
• Diesel Bikes has a sweet website with great trail descriptions.
• Mountain Biking with Team TopoGrafix - Seven trails are covered and they have GPX (GPS eXchange) files for all.
• A1: Mountain Biking in Massachusetts
• Bill and Cori's Excellent Adventures includes trail descriptions for:
  • Great Brook Farm
  • Dogtown
  • Bedford to Concord
  • Minuteman NHP
• Mountain Biking the North Shore is an outdated looking site, but the maps are great!
• More local trails from Corey's Cycling Mecca
• The Eastern Fat Tire Association ("EFTA") in Methuen
• singletrackrider.com (the North Shore Mountain Biking Club) has a nice list of local trails with maps.
• FellsBiker.com - mountain biking in the Middlesex Fells Reservation, an area approximately 2,075 acres in size, located just a few miles North of Boston.
• The Borden Mountain/Tannery Falls is an IMBA Epic Trail in Savoy (West Hawley), Massachusetts and is classic New England mountain biking; mixing rolling dirt roads and four-wheel trails with vintage tight Eastern singletrack.
• Mountain biking in the Myles Standish State Forest by Jeff Cutler, author of Mountain Bike America: Boston
• The annual Pedro's Mountain Bike Festival in Lanesboro
• Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition is a non-profit that promotes bicycling in all its forms.
• The Northern Strand Community Trail is a 9 mile recreational trail that, when complete, will connect the city of Lynn with the cities of Saugus, Revere, Malden, Everett and Boston and the bike paths on the Mystic and Charles River.
• The Bruce Freeman Trail is a proposed rail trail through the communities of Lowell, Chelmsford, Westford, Carlisle, Acton, Concord, Sudbury, and Framingham in Massachusetts -- following the 25-mile route of the old New Haven Railroad Framingham & Lowell line. map

SCUL is the Subversive Choppers Urban Legion, a Boston based bicycle chopper gang.

Although Boston has bike paths and some trails, the best mountain biking can be found less than an hour away in Fort Rock/Exeter Woods and (slightly farther) Bear Brook State Park, both in New Hampshire. If the weather's still cold, but you're itching to ride, you may want to consider Cape Cod. Again, you'd be under an hour from Boston, and it'd be worth the car time to step up the riding. It tends not to snow on the Cape for whatever reason, so if we've got 6" left on the ground in NH the cape should be dry. There's some decent & popular riding down on the cape on RT-151 just off RT-28 (literally at the exit) in Bourne. If you don't want drive all the way to NH, you may want to check out Lynn Woods [Diesel Bikes description, NEMBA description] in Lynn, MA. That's about a 20 minute drive north of the city or you can take the train to Lynn Station and ride the 2 miles to the reservation.

Topaz Outdoor Travel Maps - for hiking, biking, paddling, and skiing. They have both a New Hampshire Outdoor Travel Map and a Massachusetts Outdoor Travel Map Their website hasn't been updates since 2004 and the phone number listed is disconnected. Does anyone know if this project is continuing somewhere? Please use the "Contact Us" button above if you know anything about them.

Hook up with group mountain bike rides around the MA Metro West area with the Metro West Mountain Biking group. It's origination is based on three separate groups of riders around the Groton, Littleton, Harvard area that would like to share information on their respective group rides.

Also check out the Newburyport/Riverside group ride list and this map of Willowdale/Pine Swamp map