Where are you from/your local trail systems
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One of my favorite places to ride is Raystown, out near State College, PA. It's approx 3-3.5 hours from my apartment. Normal trips are camping for a long weekend. Haven't done a day trip yet. Might have to plan one out.
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I live in North Florida. My local trails are in San Felasco Hammock State Park. It’s about a 10 minute drive from my house. I haven’t been to Santos down in Marion County yet, but it’s about 45 minutes away. Most everything else is further than that.
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I'm in Scotts Valley, CA, about 5 miles up the hill from Santa Cruz. I ride 2 miles on pavement to get to a trailhead that connects into the UC Santa Cruz and Wilder Ranch trails. There's also a small trail system that's good for a workday lunch quickie about 3/4 of a mile away. I really dislike driving.
I live in Bella Vista, Arkansas. I can ride half a mile on the pavement and be on The Back 40, or jump in the car and drive two miles to a trailhead parking lot. Or four miles to another, etc. Etc. Little Sugar is connected to Back 40, or I can drive to one of their parking lot trailheads. Blowing Springs also the same. Bentonville is connected via Greenway, or just drive 7 miles to Slaughter Pen. Coler is similar distance, so is Handcut. Hobbs is a good 45 minutes. Eureka Springs is about an hour and a half. Devils Den, everything around Fayetteville is 45-70 minutes.
I can ride over a hundred miles of trails within a 20 minute drive. This is why we moved here (among other amazing reasons). But it’s full now, so please don’t come. We have, uhhh, toxic gas fumes…or something. It’s really bad…
I can ride over a hundred miles of trails within a 20 minute drive. This is why we moved here (among other amazing reasons). But it’s full now, so please don’t come. We have, uhhh, toxic gas fumes…or something. It’s really bad…
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I live in Fort Collins, Colorado along the Northern Colorado Front Range. Nearby we have a mixture of city natural areas, county open space, state parks, and US Forest Service land with trails, many of which connect to form a nice local network rideable from home with little pavement riding required to access the trails.
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My wife and I are buying a place 0.6 miles from the Belle Terre trailhead at the South end of Hand Cut Hollow.
I mean, we have POA land between my house and the Back 40, and my kids and I seriously started thinking about how we could clear a path to the trail. Of course, there's streams and hills to traverse, I'm not a trail builder, and we didn't have, you know, permission...so I just ride the few thousand feet on the road or make the 3 minute car ride. It's rough...
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Peterborough, NH. Unfortunately I don't have any trails that I can ride to within a few minutes, but there's a local riding group that has a network of 50+ miles of proper primitive NE single track 15 minutes drive from here, there are various trail networks around Keene, Nashua, Amherst, Bedford etc... all within about 40 minutes drive. Bear Brook State Park and Franklin Falls Dam have nice trails within 90 minutes.
Highland Mountain is a little over an hour away, and Mt Sunapee is 50 minutes and they have lift services riding in the summer.
All in all not a bad spot to live, but I do wish we had some long trails like they have out west.
Highland Mountain is a little over an hour away, and Mt Sunapee is 50 minutes and they have lift services riding in the summer.
All in all not a bad spot to live, but I do wish we had some long trails like they have out west.
Central Vermont. I've got 4-5 great trail networks less than 20 minutes away (Millstone, Northfield, Perry Hill, North Branch, Calais). Within an hour drive is some of the best riding in the northeast (Kingdom Trails, Stowe, Richmond, Mad River Valley, RASTA, Woodstock, etc.)
Not to mention endless gravel riding and groomed fat biking right out my front door.
Not to mention endless gravel riding and groomed fat biking right out my front door.
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I'm so grateful for living here. Not the least because BV trails hold up to rain so well, you can usually ride during/right after a light rain, and within 24 hours of heavy downpours. There just aren't many days you can't ride. 
(It's rained a lot lately, which is the reason for this post, lol)
(It's rained a lot lately, which is the reason for this post, lol)
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Cleveland, OH
The area was leveled by a glacier once upon a time, so the local geology/topography is not so dramatic. But I live a short distance from 100s of miles of no-car biking, which includes a few urban MTB trails as well as "out-of-town" trails that are worth the effort to get to them. A little further out Central OH, Western PA, and NY are easily reachable in a day trip, with lots of good trail options and camping.
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The area was leveled by a glacier once upon a time, so the local geology/topography is not so dramatic. But I live a short distance from 100s of miles of no-car biking, which includes a few urban MTB trails as well as "out-of-town" trails that are worth the effort to get to them. A little further out Central OH, Western PA, and NY are easily reachable in a day trip, with lots of good trail options and camping.
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Yes, also a native New Englander/Nutmegger. Although I don’t live in CT any longer (but frequently ride there). There’s a staggering amount of places to ride in a 2 hr radius. So much so that in 30 years of riding in New England I’m still finding new trail systems I’ve never even heard of before.
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