How close do you live to your local trail?
09-26-15, 09:51 PM
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How close do you live to your local trail?
Just curious. I'm about 10 km away from mine, but it's nothing special and is mostly a hiking trail, not single track. Luckily, there's several trails within an hours drive from where I live. Sadly, I need a car to get there.
09-27-15, 05:54 PM
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depends on which trail of course but I am about 1/2 mile from my closest trail which feeds into a pretty good trail network (Penasquitos Canyon, San Diego CA) The best local riding is about an hour away Nobel Canyon
09-27-15, 06:04 PM
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about 1.5 miles. crushed gravel with some single track - side trails. and now i got my first MTB with a suspension fork. (26 inch wheels)
09-28-15, 10:49 AM
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Closest trail is a DH track on my back 20 ac. But I live 25 miles from town, where most of the trails I ride regularly are.
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09-28-15, 10:58 AM
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2 miles from a trail (illegal power lines and abandoned train tracks), 5 miles from the MUP, 10 to 15 miles from the good trail and maybe 7 miles from the alternate good trail. Then there are 3-4 good spots within 20-30 miles.
09-28-15, 01:54 PM
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About 8 miles to where I ride most often and not too much farther to others. Can't complain.
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I live about 0.25 miles from the trailhead. I guess I'm lucky and shouldn't complain about the LA traffic, at least there's not much traffic in this trail.
09-28-15, 04:05 PM
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Acouple miles from multiple trailheads leading to somewhere over 200 miles of maintained trails. everything from pine forest to high desert, rock gardens to buffed single track.
09-28-15, 04:09 PM
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are there lakes out there? we don't have many lakes (or much water at all) in SoCal.
09-28-15, 04:11 PM
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I live only a few miles away from the trail I ride most often (around a like then alongside a river that continues on about another 20 miles past the downtown skyline in the distance.)
The other lake trail, I like to go to is also about 3 miles.
I'm a happy girl.
The other lake trail, I like to go to is also about 3 miles.
I'm a happy girl.
09-28-15, 04:21 PM
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Lots of lakes when you actually pack up the car and head up to the Sawtooths or McCall/Cascade area to ride. The trails around Boise have some creek crossings seasonally but no lakes. I wasn't counting the far trails--the 200 miles are all trails close to town. Most the trails start inside the city limits. Have to pack the bike on the car to get to the far ones that are actually in the mountains on weekends. Weekdays are all trails in the Boise front and part of the local system--Look up Ridge to Rivers to get an idea of what there is.
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Lots of lakes when you actually pack up the car and head up to the Sawtooths or McCall/Cascade area to ride. The trails around Boise have some creek crossings seasonally but no lakes. I wasn't counting the far trails--the 200 miles are all trails close to town. Most the trails start inside the city limits. Have to pack the bike on the car to get to the far ones that are actually in the mountains on weekends. Weekdays are all trails in the Boise front and part of the local system--Look up Ridge to Rivers to get an idea of what there is.
09-28-15, 05:30 PM
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We have lots of fireroads and forest service roads but there is so much accessible singletrack so the roads don't get used as much as you would think by mountain bikers. More used by motorcycles and other atvs. We do use them for gravel grinders. We have lots of wildlife (bears, cougars, elk, deer, coyotes even the occasional moose) even close to town but Idaho is still a hunter heavy area so it is unusual for the predators to be aggressive towards people as frankly they get shot at a lot. Reportedly we even have wolves in the Boise front but I have never seen one in that area. Do see them up high in the mountains on occasion.
09-28-15, 08:56 PM
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20 miles to Mount Tamalpais.
09-28-15, 09:27 PM
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About mile away to Olympia's Woodland Trail. After a few miles there's a roundabout and I have my choices of three other paved trails. 
09-30-15, 11:29 AM
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100yds to 15 miles of trails Can pedal 2-5 miles of pave and ride 75 miles more. I'm 20 miles North of Boston, MA. Nice.
Can pedal 2-5 miles of pave and ride 75 miles more. I'm 20 miles North of Boston, MA. Nice.
09-30-15, 02:46 PM
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I drive 2 1/2 hours to get to Nobel/Big Laguna Trails - well worth the drive.
I am a few miles from a number of trails and can ride my bike from my house up to several (Peter's Canyon; Irvine Park; Fremont/Blind/weir; Santiago Woods)... . I am just a 10 - 20 minutes drive away from a bunch of other, more significant trails (Blackstar, Limestone Canyon; Whiting Ranch; Maple Springs; Harding Truck Trail; Holy Jim; Motorway; Main Divide; Las Tijeras/Arroy Trabuco; Caspers; O'Neill; Carbon Canyon/Chino Hills; Weedpatch; lots more)... I am pretty lucky, lots of great riding in my area. But I still drive hours to places like Mt. Laguna!
And Sweetpete... seriously thinking about Boise as a place to retire! I dream of living in a mountain bike heaven!
I am a few miles from a number of trails and can ride my bike from my house up to several (Peter's Canyon; Irvine Park; Fremont/Blind/weir; Santiago Woods)... . I am just a 10 - 20 minutes drive away from a bunch of other, more significant trails (Blackstar, Limestone Canyon; Whiting Ranch; Maple Springs; Harding Truck Trail; Holy Jim; Motorway; Main Divide; Las Tijeras/Arroy Trabuco; Caspers; O'Neill; Carbon Canyon/Chino Hills; Weedpatch; lots more)... I am pretty lucky, lots of great riding in my area. But I still drive hours to places like Mt. Laguna!
And Sweetpete... seriously thinking about Boise as a place to retire! I dream of living in a mountain bike heaven!
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09-30-15, 03:07 PM
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Town to the mountains trails means I can ride to a "trail" about 100 meters from my house all of the way to the mountains. Bozeman
