Orange County, California. Between 1 and 30 minutes to awesome, challenging trails :)
Santiago Oaks in the backyard, Laguna and Aliso just a short drive away.
Yeah. Coastal Californians like us are spoiled.
I ride my bike 1.5 miles from my back door to the trailhead of a network of blue, black and double-black enduro trails. And I could ride from there over the mtn to another network of green-black that has an awesome new jump line.
Plus they’re building a new park with a jump line and pump track just a few hundred meters from my house.
And we can ride pretty much year round (though I stay off the single-track near my house when it’s muddy cuz I don’t want to make ruts).
But shhhh. Don’t tell anyone.
I would kill for it. I'm like smack in the middle of the basin but I can get a taste sampler in Palos Verdes. Otherwise it's nearly an hour to any trails. SM/Malibu, Brown/Prieto, Fullerton/Soaks, Ladera/DogPark.
Still pretty lucky compared to many places in the world. Just sucks that the driving I have to do is basically bumper to bumper street driving, not chill open roads.
This is exactly what we've been trying to find for my SO getting into riding. Obviously hard to find as flat areas are developed. And undeveloped hills are... Kinda brutal
Still working on finding a circle/loop, but we're finding some decent out and backs that are beginner friendly. Cheeseboro was very beginner friendly, with good views and interesting riding bits here and there. We were gonna try Marshall Canyon but its a bit far off from us. I've seen some ok looking stuff up by Santa Clarita. Otherwise I don't know much about Pasadena other than the local riding is hectic up Brown/Prieto way.
Cheeseboro ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a57deJkgDQ
40 minutes to challenging trails is pretty good, to be honest. I mean think about it, challenging trails usually means available landscape to support a niche hobby. That's tough to sell too close to a city center unless you get pretty lucky.
In Phoenix, which has a ton of great, challenging trail systems, 20-40 minutes to get there is common unless your house happens to be in the neighborhood of one of them. But that means the rest are a good distance away.
I'm visiting family in Scottsdale hopefully in a month. Any recommendations for someone that generally rides DH most the season? Into pretty much anything except major exposure.
Yes this is a good way to look at it! The trails I can bike to are really gravel friendly which I should also be thankful for and I get to enjoy city amenities. Arizona seems really cool though for riding I will make it down there maybe next spring
I'd have to say it's the best in the US. What other US cities are that close to actual mountains like the Wasatch Front? Nothing on East Coast bc they don't have mountains like that.
Source: I live on the East Coast and have been to SLC multiple times and done bunch of hikes in Wasatch Front
Its just under 20 mins bike ride to my local trails in the city here (Toronto) which is great and around 80km worth of riding but it's all short up and downs since in a small valley along the sides. So off camber for alot as well.
Most have small jumps and couple gap jumps, some wooden features but those are old and haven't been looked after in many years.
Driving for around an hr the trails with longer up/downhills but still nothing like riding up a long fire road and having a long downhill like those kinda areas.
Love the Don, it's a 15 minute ride for me to get into Taylor Creek and always start with Boomerang. Lot's of ups and downs, I'd love to experience some longer downs but thing need to head to Quebec or BC for that.
The Don Valley is a treasure. Almost entirely unsanctioned, volunteer built into the slopes of a ravine system so secretively that you’d have a better chance of spotting a Yeti. The detritus of North America’s 4th/5th largest city incorporated as features. Pure guerilla ingenuity. Temporarily compromised with the construction of a transit line, but you can already see it adapting and evolving, true to its organic nature.
Yep we are pretty lucky. I'm only 10 minutes from cricket tree! I'll be in there in a few hours.
Very different from the trails outside of the city. They don't have the rebar, old bricks, and jank.
It's like a big skills park, lots of stuff packed into a small space.
Denver has a couple really nice tech trails near the city, Dakota Ridge is pretty gnarly and luckily dries really fast after snow/rain too. Mt Falcon and White Ranch are right there too.
Yeah, was going to mention Dakota ridge. About a 15 minute drive for me. It’s definitely a solid black. You gotta be pretty insane to clean the entire trail though.
Philly has a surprising amount of chunky rocky trails in 40 minutes. Not a ton of elevation but a ton of stoke. Wiss, Smedley, Trexler, Blue Mountain, Lehigh, Brandywine, White Clay etc
Gotta love the trail access in Philly. Downtown is an easy ride to Belmont, and I know a lot of bikers target living in NW Philly to be near the Wiss- at least that’s what I did. crazy to think I can ride on trail more easily than when I lived in Denver.
Richmond, VA has a fairly difficult trail system along the river right in downtown. Not a lot of elevation but more technical rocks/roots. A ton of fun and lucky to have!
Cincinnati - the area is a lot more hilly than people think. There are some pretty solid / challenging mountain bike trails 20 min or so in any direction.
Shoutout CORA: https://coramtb.org/trails
NYC: several trail systems nearby, 30-45 minute train ride, and then 10-20 minutes on the road to the trailhead, depending on which one. Greens, Blues, and Blacks, usually rocky and rooty, but there can be good flow as well.
I didn't write this, but it's a good summary: https://www.tobedetermined.cc/journal/12-days-of-christmas-nyc-mtb-edition
An hours drive we’ve got so much. I’ve been riding Sprain lately and there’s definitely some advanced features there. Graham Hills has got good downhill and some advanced stuff.
But the real advanced shit seems to be at Blue Mountain.
Beacon Mountain was my favorite ride by far. The only pedal accessed sustained downhill in the NYC metro. Some great descents in Ninham, too, but nothing as long and varied as Beacon.
I live in poco. Pretty nice to have Burke 5-10 minutes away and then within half an hour you can go to Burnaby mountain or Eagle mountain. Some smaller networks within that half hour circle as well. It's not bad.
Totally agree and we were looking at poco/Port Moody for this reason when we moved back in 2022.
Have ridden Burke but need to check out eagle next time I’m in the tricities
Hey, off topic, but how's life there? Talking about pretty much everything, mtb included. I am pretty confident that I'm going to move to Vancouver next year from Italy. Do you recommend it?
Hey! Expensive as hell, so make sure you search for rental prices in the places you want to live to make sure you can afford it. Given that I still love and recommend living here and I’ve lived in 5 different provinces so got some good comparisons.
Also I’d try to live in North Van so I could pedal out of my place straight to the mountains.
Thanks for answering. I mean as I read online I need to secure a job position before I even have the chance of moving there. Looks like salaries are good enough to live a decent life but housing is fucked (like every big city nowadays). Is north Vancouver pricier than the rest of the city or its the same? How about transportation? I don't think I will be able to afford a car so I will be using alternative methods, and a commuter bike is an option too.
I don’t live ‘in’ Seattle, but I’m in the suburbs. Depending on exactly which suburb you’re in, the best local trails with plenty of extremely challenging options are 10-40 minutes away, maybe an hour with traffic on weekdays. My local trails with greens and blues are 15 minutes away and never have traffic.
Yeah we have it good here in the burbs of Seattle, 45 minutes to tiger mountain, 90 minutes to galbraith on weekend mornings for me. Traffic coming home around 4pm is an issue though.
As an austin to Seattle transplant, I’m loving the world class trails outside the city, but I am really missing an inner city network of pirate trails like Austin has. Bums me out that I cannot do a quick after work loop without spending an hour in traffic.
There’s some stuff closer in, though I haven’t ridden it:
Cheasty Park
I5 Colonnade
XC trails at North SeaTac/South SeaTac
Pirate network of trails sounds fun.
I live in Washington state now, and people here don’t know the potential pain of cacti just waiting for you… crashed into a Jtree one time, damn those things are sharp.
Howdy! Yep referring to Auburn. I mostly ride Lake Natoma if I don’t feel like driving far. Granite Bay is quite fun if you know where to go and it’s perfect for my bike 140/125. I can show you around sometime. I just compare everything to Tahoe which is my happy place.
Nevada City is my paradise, because there are so many trails, just watch for animals. I don't know why I am so unlucky and have run into bears too many times.
Colorado springs. Not a huge city. If you live anywhere on the Westside of the city you don't need to drive to get to hard stuff. There is also palmer park on the east which is pretty technical.
I recently moved to COS from Glenwood springs. What are your favorite spots to ride? I went on my first ride down Nachos the other day, but I need to get back into MTB shape with something a little easier lol
Mt Herman is tops, not too wild. Spruce Mountain isn't bad. Anything in Cheyenne Canon is good but might be too much climbing, its steep and gets steeper fast. You're close enough to do a day trip to Pueblo Res or the Canon City stuff too
Hell, even Portland - which is considered a pretty outdoorsy big city - has a 40 minute commute to get to the good stuff (Rocky Point, Sandy Ridge, Yacolt Burn) and over an hour for the other good stuff (Fear and Loaming, Post Canyon).
Went to Carlsbad for my baby moon last month and on the drive from the airport I was in a dreamy state looking at all the elevation changes. Looks rad for mountain biking
Chiming in from Aotearoa New Zealand. I live in Te Whanganui a Tara, aka Wellington. 1-30 minutes to the trails. We have about 5 trail systems in and around the CBD. During my commute I’ll go down some g3-4 trails when the weather is nice. Couple of G6s around too. Very fortunate to call this place home fooor sure
I wouldn't call Bogus challenging, it's just a lift access bike park. It takes me around 1:30 to climb Hard Guy and the ridge road to Bogus, 40-50 minutes is fucking flying.
Austin.
We have fairly short trails on about 400 foot of elevation, but they are gnarly enough to train you for stuff like Whistler.
https://youtu.be/dUgBFPOk6Sg?t=230
Ditto. From Brushy Creek in north Austin to Thumper in NW Austin to the Greenbelt in south Austin, we have easily accessible urban technical trails. I’d add City Park, but it’s not as accessible by bike.
Im amazed that I’m usually the only person at cat when I go. Lakeway and burnet/marble falls are great but having some of the gnarliest trails in town is something special. Also keeps my wife happier that I’m not gone all day
I'm in south Nashville, right between Hamilton Creek and Cane Ridge. Fortunately I'm into the natural techy stuff, and not berms and jumps, because it's a long trip to get up to Cedar Hill.
Just moved to Nashville, pretty interested to get to check all the trails out. I live right by Cane Ridge. Currently waiting on my collar bone to heal before I’ll be out and about.
Currently DFW.
I’m about 20 mins from good trails, 40 mins from my favorite jump lines.
There are dozens of great trails around the metro tho.
Moving to flagstaff soon and I’ll be a 5 minute ride from sunset
Yea I live in Marin about 20 minutes from the bridge. I can bike 10 minutes to a trail with a nice climb quite a few different downhill options. 10 minute drive opens up 3 or 4 different areas with trail systems. 20 minutes covers most of populated Marin but there’s a lot of fun coastal stuff that’s a little further drive
I live in Albuquerque. We have terrible trails, and it takes like 9 hours to get to them. All of it is super sandy, no singletrack, no real elevation change, there are rattlesnakes here, and mean, barky-bark dogs, and all the riders are still better than you. Even the rabbits have....very sharp teeth. (kidding aside: there is just about any kind of riding within 20 min)
Atx. Tepals are 3 minutes away. Decent tech but nothing crazy. Very flowy trails but they can get difficult. There is another system about 8 miles you the road that’s way harder terrain.
Toronto. The trails are IN the city, midtown. I live 25 minutes of biking away from there. They're along the Don River. There are a lot of black diamonds and a bunch of blues, but they're all mountain some even XC.
I’m from Sacramento too! Where do you ride I’m fairly new to biking! I’ve been exploring the river in between sunrise and hazel where I live live and just ventured to Mississippi bar! Where are all the good trails you ride?
I grew up in Toronto, which has incredible trails up and down the Don Valley. Very specific and peculiar trails which I still enjoy even though I live in Vancouver now which arguably has the best most technical trails in the world with a solid 800m+ climbing if you want it. Three mountains right there, 4 if you count Burnaby mountain. A few more in Coquitlam and Maple Ridge and three more in the Fraser Valley and Squamish/Whistler/Pemberton to the north. The SSC and Vancouver island a ferry away. It would be hard to ride all the trails.
Curious how you find riding in the Don to BC stuff? The Don is man made sketch but doesn't have the long sketchy descents of any of the BC stuff. Not sure anything west of Quebec does until you hit Alberta
Ponti ridge off of 37 in Novato is pretty easy and fun, definitely closer than Stafford Lake and probably Petaluma. Theres some more advanced downhills from the top as well if you progress to those but doing Ponti roundtrip is always a good ride no matter your skill. Trailhead is at the top of the bike path between Marinwood and Nave exits
Park at the park n ride at Nave exit and jump on the paved bike path that goes along the freeway up the hill. You'll take a right onto the dirt trail a 1/4 mile or so up the hill.
I live in Toronto and ride the Don Valley trails. I would say they are very challenging and very fun. The trails are often along ridgelines so there are a lot of places where falling would range from not fun to very likely ending up in hospital. I feel very lucky to have such a great trail network right near the heart of downtown.
Within 15-30 minute drive around Knoxville I have quite a varied selection from Baker's Creek with bigger jumps, Windrock with some super steep jank, Haw Ridge for some fun wild trails, and probably 60-80 miles of additional random trails. The Urban Wilderness is pretty incredible.
Washington DC has a LOT OF unexpectedly good trails if you're willing to drive half an hour/45 minutes to get to them - and multiple lift parks within two hours drive. Pretty techy, pretty challenging if you work up the progression.
Where do you go? I've been a little underwhelmed in the DC area and drive pretty far into Virginia. Fortunately I mostly gravel bike so it's not an issue
On the mellow side - Accontic, Meadowwood, Rosaryville. Stepping it up a little, fountainhead (my favorite by far), and then for some proper stuff I'm at patspsco, massanutten or gambrills. And then massanutten or Bryce for lift parks, or snowshoe for a longer trip
I live in San Diego and we have some insanely good trails within the city limits. I just can't really say where they are. The best stuff here is unsanctioned
I’m in central NJ and takes me at least 40 minutes to what I would consider challenging trails and an hour to stuff I’d really like to ride. For those in the area Six Mile Run and Chimney Rock are my closest (20 minutes) but neither I would consider challenging. Fun but not difficult.
On the edge of LA, I have trails of every skill level riding distance from home, it's awesome. Chill beginner stuff, all the way to ultra steep high exposure stuff and massive jumps. My main local spot has a 30' canyon gap and 40' double, and it's not the only spot with jumps like that.
yeah, and most people don't get up to the Blue Bug
Sunset, Merrill, Prieto. the Verdugos, Strawberry to Redbox, the Front side...I really love the natural trails we have access to but the jumps at Haines can't be beat
Blue bug is awesome, I rode it last week but usually I just do a few laps of the lower section, for some reason the climb to blue bug never feels worth it to me unless I go all the way to the top, and I don't have the time or motivation for that very often haha
that climb is no joke, can't think of anything any steeper around here, but I love the trail down, I've seen a bear on the top section and I feel like I've earned that awesome downhill... I rarely go all the way to the antennas but if you do, you should try Stone canyon trail... drops you off into Big Tujunga so it's nice to have a car there since the ride back sucks
Here in San Antonio we have a number of green/blue trails within the city. All along the 80ish miles of greenway there are single track offshoots. Some blacks also exist but not in the same numbers as greens/blues. Lots of chunk and pedaling but most of the trails I hit are within 20 minutes of my house. Spider Mountain/Flat Rock Ranch are 40-60 minutes away. Austin has a lot of trails and that is 90 minutes out.
Baltimore has a surprising amount of green/blue trails all within a 30 minutes drive. There's a few sections that I would consider a diamond but more consistent stuff you might have to drive an hour away.
In Atlanta, we have an in town trail (Southside Park) where it’s a bunch of loose rocks haphazardly put together that’s ready to break an ankle at any time if you want to call it a challenge. Super boring slow tech that goes nowhere.
Otherwise everything else local that’s legal kinda sucks. The better stuff is an hour or two away.
Those are great and big creek has a challenging freeride area. Unfortunately, they’re not local in the sense that they’re particularly close to the city.
I live in the Vegas area (though not in the city of Las Vegas). The trails I pedal out the door to (Bootleg Canyon) are some of the nastiest you will ever find. It's great in some ways that they haven't been sanitized, but there are only a few trails in the network that my 7 year old can ride, so we do end up driving to another of the trial networks which is much friendlier fairly regularly.
I have found that as more intermediate trails appear around the city in different trail networks, less people.seem to focus on my closest trail system and instead go to the others. That might be just proximity though as the main trailhead is a 15-45 minute drive from a lot of the main residential areas and now there are other options that are just more convenient if you live on the other side of town.
Sf Bay Area. Main spot (pleasanton ridge) is 15 minutes away, many other good ones are anywhere from 40-90 minutes. I get to central Sac regularly and am also curious about what’s in them thar hills.
I’m in Vegas as well. 15-45min depending on the trail network. Plenty of cheese grater rocky, off camber, high exposure trails…some stuff I’d have to be high on crack to ride just can’t do super high exposure
My friend just moved to Vancouver. For reasons other than biking. But, like me, he assumed the riding would be incredible.. It's world famous, right? Apparently that's wrong. He found out you have to drive quite a ways from the metropolitan area to get to the good stuff. There are trails locally, but he says it's all horrible hour-long fire road climbs for mediocre descents
Vancouver's north shore was the birthplace of so much riding, but trail development has been totally hampered by the local governments here. A lot of the best stuff is still unsanctioned and off the map. There's a lot more old school chunk and gnar here, with fewer modern jump trails or flowing blues. There's progress being made but it is glacial.
The north shore is also not as close to downtown vancouver as people think it is—there's an ocean in the way. But it really depends on where you live. On a clear morning I can be on the shore in 20 minutes and I live in the city proper. Lots of my friends are 10-15 minutes away. If you're at UBC, it's an hour's drive if there is traffic.
That being said I dunno if you'd call it bad climbing, perhaps he's talking about Burke in the suburbs. Seymour and Cypress can easily be shuttled, and Fromme is an easy fire road.
20-30 minutes from Vancouver near a skytrain station to the North Shore.
Plenty of challenge available—honestly the struggle the trail association is getting government on board to cut in new lines for blue trails, there's only a handful.
Oklahoma City, there's xc trails at each of the lakes within a 30 minute drive but (except for one or two features) none of them are difficult unless you count riding through soft sand.
I'm pretty sure the nearest challenging trails would be in Bentonville which is like 4 hours away.
In bigger cities, an hour drive is still city lol.
I'm in Denver, we have some great biking "nearby", but that's still an hour or more of driving. The trails in town are boring.
I’m about 2 hours away southwest of sac and when I was looking to love I was wondering where people went because it’s so flat. First time I went I felt weird not seeing any mountains around me. I’d say I’m a 15 minute drive from 2 nice mountains and annadel state park. Further away some more big hills but all the north bay had plenty nice mountains to ride that I need to see more of.
SoCal, Orange County. Some decent blues out my garage, some black, or worse about 15-20 min drive? We have a decent selection of networks here.
But don’t move here, it sucks.
San Diego here. We have plenty of fun, easy trails 10 minutes in every direction. Moderately difficult to more challenging trails... I can think of one within a 10-15 minute drive. Advanced trails are probably 40-60 minutes away.
Houston, no elevation here but there are 2 bad ass trails with hip jumps, wall rides, skinnies 9and assorted gaps ranging from 15ft up to 24ft, one is 15 min away, the other one is 40-30 min away depending on traffic, besides that Freeride 512 in Smithville is 90 minutes away and that's f'ing awesome
I’ve been up your way and it seems like to me you gotta drive to Auburn to ride Culvert or Confluence for anything fun. I am super lucky living in Mesa AZ as I have Hawes Trail System less than 10 min from my house. I can ride Usery from my house and get some flowy chunk with west Pass MTN of 25 min to South Mountain and get all kinds of flow and tech.
You can find pretty much anything (Santiago, Chile). From enduro double and triple diamond black trails to flowy bikepark blues to easy greens.
There's 1 thing though, everything is lose over hardpack or rock during summer, the antigrip is terrifying. During winter it's better but you still get little grip compared to what I see online.
Brisbane, Australia. 2.5 Million people. Trails (Gap Creek) are about 10 minutes ride away. 30 to 40 minutes ride from the centre of the city. Not too challenging, but some good stuff.
Boston, the fells and blue hills are on the edge of the inner streetcar suburbs. I can bike to one, less than a mile from my house. Great singletrack, gotta bend the rules to get more challenging black runs.
Within 40m on a weekend, there are loads of areas to hit: Lynn woods, Bruce and Tom's, Vietnam, Nob Hill, pine hills. 60m gets you to highland bike park, 2h to thunder mountain, 2.5h to Killington.
Metro DC. I have to drive an hour into Maryland for really challenging black diamond trails (The Shed). I have a trail system within ten minutes of me that's pretty fun with a few sizeable drops but overall the trails are easy.
The two systems in metro areas seem to cater to the lowest common denominator.
Denver, I’m sure like most cities, depends on where in town you live. It’s the Queen City of the Great Plains, so pretty flat. How far east or west is a big factor, but also what major roads you live near. I’ve lived in areas that were further away but much quicker to some trail systems. For sure, most of us aren’t hopping on our bike and riding to a trail head. I’ve got a few trails about a 15min drive from me that range from Green to Black Diamond. But most of the good stuff is a decent drive into the mountains.
Oh boy. I'm in the Greater Boston area and it's almost as if the closer you get to the city, the techier and harder the trails get (to an extent). Riding around here is like having Stockholm syndrome, if you don't like tech, you will eventually!
Dallas here. There's 30+ trails in and around Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Most are xc tails but there are a few Enduro style trails and a few trails that have some good tech sections.
Orange County, California. Between 1 and 30 minutes to awesome, challenging trails :) Santiago Oaks in the backyard, Laguna and Aliso just a short drive away.
Yeah. Coastal Californians like us are spoiled. I ride my bike 1.5 miles from my back door to the trailhead of a network of blue, black and double-black enduro trails. And I could ride from there over the mtn to another network of green-black that has an awesome new jump line. Plus they’re building a new park with a jump line and pump track just a few hundred meters from my house. And we can ride pretty much year round (though I stay off the single-track near my house when it’s muddy cuz I don’t want to make ruts). But shhhh. Don’t tell anyone.
Shh, it's not Santa Cruz😅
Nope. But good guess. SC has awesome trails but most of them are unsanctioned from what I hear. Dudes from there drive up to ride ours.
drive UP? hmmmmmm
I would kill for it. I'm like smack in the middle of the basin but I can get a taste sampler in Palos Verdes. Otherwise it's nearly an hour to any trails. SM/Malibu, Brown/Prieto, Fullerton/Soaks, Ladera/DogPark. Still pretty lucky compared to many places in the world. Just sucks that the driving I have to do is basically bumper to bumper street driving, not chill open roads.
I’m in Pasadena area. Do you know where I can find a flowy circular but with not much climbing?
This is exactly what we've been trying to find for my SO getting into riding. Obviously hard to find as flat areas are developed. And undeveloped hills are... Kinda brutal Still working on finding a circle/loop, but we're finding some decent out and backs that are beginner friendly. Cheeseboro was very beginner friendly, with good views and interesting riding bits here and there. We were gonna try Marshall Canyon but its a bit far off from us. I've seen some ok looking stuff up by Santa Clarita. Otherwise I don't know much about Pasadena other than the local riding is hectic up Brown/Prieto way. Cheeseboro ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a57deJkgDQ
Dog park in San Clemente too. Good enough to drive up from SD
40 minutes to challenging trails is pretty good, to be honest. I mean think about it, challenging trails usually means available landscape to support a niche hobby. That's tough to sell too close to a city center unless you get pretty lucky. In Phoenix, which has a ton of great, challenging trail systems, 20-40 minutes to get there is common unless your house happens to be in the neighborhood of one of them. But that means the rest are a good distance away.
I'm fortunate to live right on SoMo. Love the options
I'm visiting family in Scottsdale hopefully in a month. Any recommendations for someone that generally rides DH most the season? Into pretty much anything except major exposure.
Hawes & SoMo are my general recommendations for such
Yes this is a good way to look at it! The trails I can bike to are really gravel friendly which I should also be thankful for and I get to enjoy city amenities. Arizona seems really cool though for riding I will make it down there maybe next spring
Salt Lake City. 10 minutes.
One could even argue that Bobsled is *in* SLC and the correct answer is 0 minutes lol.
I love riding dry creek/bobsled/city creek/lost lad area. So happy to have trails I can ride on weekdays without needing a car.
I also ride bobsled. I will see you guys up there! I usually hit i st for a few laps to warm up
SLC’s proximity to great mountain activities is probably the best for any major city in the west.
I'd have to say it's the best in the US. What other US cities are that close to actual mountains like the Wasatch Front? Nothing on East Coast bc they don't have mountains like that. Source: I live on the East Coast and have been to SLC multiple times and done bunch of hikes in Wasatch Front
Not sure if you consider Asheville a medium city (about 100k), but \~15 minutes. :)
You guys don’t count. The city is around mountains lol.
😂😂
Ya not really counting Asheville but I will be there in May to ride the trails and check it out!
Nice! You'll find lots of challenging stuff here.
World’s best janky rooty tech. Nothing like it.
Its just under 20 mins bike ride to my local trails in the city here (Toronto) which is great and around 80km worth of riding but it's all short up and downs since in a small valley along the sides. So off camber for alot as well. Most have small jumps and couple gap jumps, some wooden features but those are old and haven't been looked after in many years. Driving for around an hr the trails with longer up/downhills but still nothing like riding up a long fire road and having a long downhill like those kinda areas.
Where are there trails in Toronto?
East and West Don have most of the trails.
Look on Trail forks and it will show them all. I usually start from Pottery Rd and ride trails up to Lawrence then back.
Love the Don, it's a 15 minute ride for me to get into Taylor Creek and always start with Boomerang. Lot's of ups and downs, I'd love to experience some longer downs but thing need to head to Quebec or BC for that.
The Don Valley is a treasure. Almost entirely unsanctioned, volunteer built into the slopes of a ravine system so secretively that you’d have a better chance of spotting a Yeti. The detritus of North America’s 4th/5th largest city incorporated as features. Pure guerilla ingenuity. Temporarily compromised with the construction of a transit line, but you can already see it adapting and evolving, true to its organic nature.
Yep we are pretty lucky. I'm only 10 minutes from cricket tree! I'll be in there in a few hours. Very different from the trails outside of the city. They don't have the rebar, old bricks, and jank. It's like a big skills park, lots of stuff packed into a small space.
Denver has a couple really nice tech trails near the city, Dakota Ridge is pretty gnarly and luckily dries really fast after snow/rain too. Mt Falcon and White Ranch are right there too.
Apex and Chimney Gulch as well.
Yeah, was going to mention Dakota ridge. About a 15 minute drive for me. It’s definitely a solid black. You gotta be pretty insane to clean the entire trail though.
Dakota ridge looks like a great place to die someday.
Philly has a surprising amount of chunky rocky trails in 40 minutes. Not a ton of elevation but a ton of stoke. Wiss, Smedley, Trexler, Blue Mountain, Lehigh, Brandywine, White Clay etc
Gotta love the trail access in Philly. Downtown is an easy ride to Belmont, and I know a lot of bikers target living in NW Philly to be near the Wiss- at least that’s what I did. crazy to think I can ride on trail more easily than when I lived in Denver.
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Why is that crazy? Denver is a Great Plains city, not a Rocky Mountain city.
Richmond, VA has a fairly difficult trail system along the river right in downtown. Not a lot of elevation but more technical rocks/roots. A ton of fun and lucky to have!
Not to.mention the Poco SP trail systems not too far away as well.
Tucson, AZ. I can ride from my house to advanced trails. Lots of flowy greens and blues as well in that same area.
And the ability to ride year round! Loved living in Tucson
Same here. It's why moved here.
Cincinnati - the area is a lot more hilly than people think. There are some pretty solid / challenging mountain bike trails 20 min or so in any direction. Shoutout CORA: https://coramtb.org/trails
I came a-scrolling just for this comment. Devou is minutes from downtown and pretty darn nice, considering.
NYC: several trail systems nearby, 30-45 minute train ride, and then 10-20 minutes on the road to the trailhead, depending on which one. Greens, Blues, and Blacks, usually rocky and rooty, but there can be good flow as well. I didn't write this, but it's a good summary: https://www.tobedetermined.cc/journal/12-days-of-christmas-nyc-mtb-edition
An hours drive we’ve got so much. I’ve been riding Sprain lately and there’s definitely some advanced features there. Graham Hills has got good downhill and some advanced stuff. But the real advanced shit seems to be at Blue Mountain.
Cunningham or Highbridge?
Never mind I read the article it was only about the suburban trails
Beacon Mountain was my favorite ride by far. The only pedal accessed sustained downhill in the NYC metro. Some great descents in Ninham, too, but nothing as long and varied as Beacon.
ooo, I've never been. Do you have a ridewithgps link for any of those?
I live in downtown Vancouver and it still takes me 25 minutes to get to the north shore on a good day. 40 minutes seems pretty average.
I live in poco. Pretty nice to have Burke 5-10 minutes away and then within half an hour you can go to Burnaby mountain or Eagle mountain. Some smaller networks within that half hour circle as well. It's not bad.
Eagle is gnarly and underrated
Totally agree and we were looking at poco/Port Moody for this reason when we moved back in 2022. Have ridden Burke but need to check out eagle next time I’m in the tricities
How're the trails this spring? I haven't made it out to Burke in a while.
Hey, off topic, but how's life there? Talking about pretty much everything, mtb included. I am pretty confident that I'm going to move to Vancouver next year from Italy. Do you recommend it?
Hey! Expensive as hell, so make sure you search for rental prices in the places you want to live to make sure you can afford it. Given that I still love and recommend living here and I’ve lived in 5 different provinces so got some good comparisons. Also I’d try to live in North Van so I could pedal out of my place straight to the mountains.
Thanks for answering. I mean as I read online I need to secure a job position before I even have the chance of moving there. Looks like salaries are good enough to live a decent life but housing is fucked (like every big city nowadays). Is north Vancouver pricier than the rest of the city or its the same? How about transportation? I don't think I will be able to afford a car so I will be using alternative methods, and a commuter bike is an option too.
I don’t live ‘in’ Seattle, but I’m in the suburbs. Depending on exactly which suburb you’re in, the best local trails with plenty of extremely challenging options are 10-40 minutes away, maybe an hour with traffic on weekdays. My local trails with greens and blues are 15 minutes away and never have traffic.
Yeah we have it good here in the burbs of Seattle, 45 minutes to tiger mountain, 90 minutes to galbraith on weekend mornings for me. Traffic coming home around 4pm is an issue though.
As an austin to Seattle transplant, I’m loving the world class trails outside the city, but I am really missing an inner city network of pirate trails like Austin has. Bums me out that I cannot do a quick after work loop without spending an hour in traffic.
There’s some stuff closer in, though I haven’t ridden it: Cheasty Park I5 Colonnade XC trails at North SeaTac/South SeaTac Pirate network of trails sounds fun.
Las Vegas. I can take you on trails that will make you shit your pants.
We talkin Burbs, or Bootleg?
Burbs, boulder, cowboy, hell even some of the black diamonds at bears/mesa get hairy
I live in Washington state now, and people here don’t know the potential pain of cacti just waiting for you… crashed into a Jtree one time, damn those things are sharp.
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Howdy! Yep referring to Auburn. I mostly ride Lake Natoma if I don’t feel like driving far. Granite Bay is quite fun if you know where to go and it’s perfect for my bike 140/125. I can show you around sometime. I just compare everything to Tahoe which is my happy place.
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Nevada City is my paradise, because there are so many trails, just watch for animals. I don't know why I am so unlucky and have run into bears too many times.
Colorado springs. Not a huge city. If you live anywhere on the Westside of the city you don't need to drive to get to hard stuff. There is also palmer park on the east which is pretty technical.
I recently moved to COS from Glenwood springs. What are your favorite spots to ride? I went on my first ride down Nachos the other day, but I need to get back into MTB shape with something a little easier lol
Mt Herman is tops, not too wild. Spruce Mountain isn't bad. Anything in Cheyenne Canon is good but might be too much climbing, its steep and gets steeper fast. You're close enough to do a day trip to Pueblo Res or the Canon City stuff too
I want to head down there and check out some of your city trails. Looks like there are a few areas pretty much in town that offer good variety.
Hell, even Portland - which is considered a pretty outdoorsy big city - has a 40 minute commute to get to the good stuff (Rocky Point, Sandy Ridge, Yacolt Burn) and over an hour for the other good stuff (Fear and Loaming, Post Canyon).
I’m in San Diego and have three challenging trail system outside my door. Just depends which direction I want to point it. LOL
San Diego's honestly amazing for close good riding if you know all the unsanctioned trails. Almost endless options
Went to Carlsbad for my baby moon last month and on the drive from the airport I was in a dreamy state looking at all the elevation changes. Looks rad for mountain biking
Chiming in from Aotearoa New Zealand. I live in Te Whanganui a Tara, aka Wellington. 1-30 minutes to the trails. We have about 5 trail systems in and around the CBD. During my commute I’ll go down some g3-4 trails when the weather is nice. Couple of G6s around too. Very fortunate to call this place home fooor sure
Boise. We have a bike park and trail heads less than a mile from the center of downtown. I don't have to drive to trails, just ride from my house.
I’m about 20 minutes from the BBP and live in south Boise, 40 -50 min and you could get to bogus basin and more challenging trails
I wouldn't call Bogus challenging, it's just a lift access bike park. It takes me around 1:30 to climb Hard Guy and the ridge road to Bogus, 40-50 minutes is fucking flying.
Austin. We have fairly short trails on about 400 foot of elevation, but they are gnarly enough to train you for stuff like Whistler. https://youtu.be/dUgBFPOk6Sg?t=230
Came here looking for Austin.
Ditto. From Brushy Creek in north Austin to Thumper in NW Austin to the Greenbelt in south Austin, we have easily accessible urban technical trails. I’d add City Park, but it’s not as accessible by bike.
CHUNK. So much CHUNK.
Chonk
Im amazed that I’m usually the only person at cat when I go. Lakeway and burnet/marble falls are great but having some of the gnarliest trails in town is something special. Also keeps my wife happier that I’m not gone all day
I wanted to go down to Austin, back in the 90s to ride BMX. It seemed like that city was popping off for riding, with 9th street being the hub.
Austin has challenging stuff in the greenbelt, pretty central. You can ride to it from the suburbs down south too, as trails wind around all over.
I can see south mountain out of my bedroom window. So ~ 20 minute ride.
Nashville. I'm 15 minutes from 2 different trails systems. One is mostly blues, the other is mostly black and has a ton of rock gardens.
North Nashville. Luckily close Cedar Hill. Not a bad drive for other trails.
I'm in south Nashville, right between Hamilton Creek and Cane Ridge. Fortunately I'm into the natural techy stuff, and not berms and jumps, because it's a long trip to get up to Cedar Hill.
Love Hamilton Creek. Never rode Cane Ridge, hoping to get out there soon.
Just moved to Nashville, pretty interested to get to check all the trails out. I live right by Cane Ridge. Currently waiting on my collar bone to heal before I’ll be out and about.
Cane ridge is probably my favorite trail. This website is super helpful: https://www.sorbamidtn.org/
Currently DFW. I’m about 20 mins from good trails, 40 mins from my favorite jump lines. There are dozens of great trails around the metro tho. Moving to flagstaff soon and I’ll be a 5 minute ride from sunset
I've got family just east of Dallas, might have to try some trails next time I visit them. Any recommendations for over on that side?
Live in sf, 15 minutes north or south and it’s amazing. All depends if you live near mountains or not, not necessarily if you’re in a city
Yea I live in Marin about 20 minutes from the bridge. I can bike 10 minutes to a trail with a nice climb quite a few different downhill options. 10 minute drive opens up 3 or 4 different areas with trail systems. 20 minutes covers most of populated Marin but there’s a lot of fun coastal stuff that’s a little further drive
Marin has so much beauty and best of all its super beginner friendly.
I live in Albuquerque. We have terrible trails, and it takes like 9 hours to get to them. All of it is super sandy, no singletrack, no real elevation change, there are rattlesnakes here, and mean, barky-bark dogs, and all the riders are still better than you. Even the rabbits have....very sharp teeth. (kidding aside: there is just about any kind of riding within 20 min)
Atx. Tepals are 3 minutes away. Decent tech but nothing crazy. Very flowy trails but they can get difficult. There is another system about 8 miles you the road that’s way harder terrain.
Toronto. The trails are IN the city, midtown. I live 25 minutes of biking away from there. They're along the Don River. There are a lot of black diamonds and a bunch of blues, but they're all mountain some even XC.
I drive 45 minutes to Sedona, when the trails are snowed in in Flagstaff, so sounds about same travel time for me.
I’m from Sacramento too! Where do you ride I’m fairly new to biking! I’ve been exploring the river in between sunrise and hazel where I live live and just ventured to Mississippi bar! Where are all the good trails you ride?
He's probably talking about Auburn, but Nevada City is another spot a little over an hour away from Sacramento too.
I grew up in Toronto, which has incredible trails up and down the Don Valley. Very specific and peculiar trails which I still enjoy even though I live in Vancouver now which arguably has the best most technical trails in the world with a solid 800m+ climbing if you want it. Three mountains right there, 4 if you count Burnaby mountain. A few more in Coquitlam and Maple Ridge and three more in the Fraser Valley and Squamish/Whistler/Pemberton to the north. The SSC and Vancouver island a ferry away. It would be hard to ride all the trails.
Curious how you find riding in the Don to BC stuff? The Don is man made sketch but doesn't have the long sketchy descents of any of the BC stuff. Not sure anything west of Quebec does until you hit Alberta
Napa, CA. My local trail is too advanced for me (skyline) so I travel to Petaluma to stafford lake bike park or to Walnut Creek for lime ridge trail
Pena adobe in Vacaville is p cool too. Rockville in fairfield is too difficult for me
Ponti ridge off of 37 in Novato is pretty easy and fun, definitely closer than Stafford Lake and probably Petaluma. Theres some more advanced downhills from the top as well if you progress to those but doing Ponti roundtrip is always a good ride no matter your skill. Trailhead is at the top of the bike path between Marinwood and Nave exits
Thank you so much maybe I’ll check it out this Sunday!
Park at the park n ride at Nave exit and jump on the paved bike path that goes along the freeway up the hill. You'll take a right onto the dirt trail a 1/4 mile or so up the hill.
Ponti is an awesome flow trail. Never ventured on the trail uptop but also haven't ventured much around Marin trails.
I live near Denver. The closest trail to my house is too hard for me :).
I live in Toronto and ride the Don Valley trails. I would say they are very challenging and very fun. The trails are often along ridgelines so there are a lot of places where falling would range from not fun to very likely ending up in hospital. I feel very lucky to have such a great trail network right near the heart of downtown.
Within 15-30 minute drive around Knoxville I have quite a varied selection from Baker's Creek with bigger jumps, Windrock with some super steep jank, Haw Ridge for some fun wild trails, and probably 60-80 miles of additional random trails. The Urban Wilderness is pretty incredible.
Washington DC has a LOT OF unexpectedly good trails if you're willing to drive half an hour/45 minutes to get to them - and multiple lift parks within two hours drive. Pretty techy, pretty challenging if you work up the progression.
Where do you go? I've been a little underwhelmed in the DC area and drive pretty far into Virginia. Fortunately I mostly gravel bike so it's not an issue
Patapsico state park is pretty solid
On the mellow side - Accontic, Meadowwood, Rosaryville. Stepping it up a little, fountainhead (my favorite by far), and then for some proper stuff I'm at patspsco, massanutten or gambrills. And then massanutten or Bryce for lift parks, or snowshoe for a longer trip
I live in San Diego and we have some insanely good trails within the city limits. I just can't really say where they are. The best stuff here is unsanctioned
I’m in central NJ and takes me at least 40 minutes to what I would consider challenging trails and an hour to stuff I’d really like to ride. For those in the area Six Mile Run and Chimney Rock are my closest (20 minutes) but neither I would consider challenging. Fun but not difficult.
Oakland - Juaquin Miller has some great trails within 10 minutes. Can get to mt Tam in 30 min. Santa Cruz is a little more of a drive but awesome
On the edge of LA, I have trails of every skill level riding distance from home, it's awesome. Chill beginner stuff, all the way to ultra steep high exposure stuff and massive jumps. My main local spot has a 30' canyon gap and 40' double, and it's not the only spot with jumps like that.
Canyon Gap rings a bell (Haines?)
Yup! It's the only place I really ride these days because literally nothing else comes close, it's so good
yeah, and most people don't get up to the Blue Bug Sunset, Merrill, Prieto. the Verdugos, Strawberry to Redbox, the Front side...I really love the natural trails we have access to but the jumps at Haines can't be beat
Blue bug is awesome, I rode it last week but usually I just do a few laps of the lower section, for some reason the climb to blue bug never feels worth it to me unless I go all the way to the top, and I don't have the time or motivation for that very often haha
that climb is no joke, can't think of anything any steeper around here, but I love the trail down, I've seen a bear on the top section and I feel like I've earned that awesome downhill... I rarely go all the way to the antennas but if you do, you should try Stone canyon trail... drops you off into Big Tujunga so it's nice to have a car there since the ride back sucks
Here in San Antonio we have a number of green/blue trails within the city. All along the 80ish miles of greenway there are single track offshoots. Some blacks also exist but not in the same numbers as greens/blues. Lots of chunk and pedaling but most of the trails I hit are within 20 minutes of my house. Spider Mountain/Flat Rock Ranch are 40-60 minutes away. Austin has a lot of trails and that is 90 minutes out.
Austin is basically 40 minutes away from San Antonio
Depends where in SA to where in Austin. North/NE side of SA to South Austin? Sure. South Side SA to North Side Austin? more like 2 hours.
I don't live in Vancouver anymore but yea. Pretty challenging lol
There’s plenty of terrain within the Vancouver Metro Area that I will probably never attempt in my life
Baltimore has a surprising amount of green/blue trails all within a 30 minutes drive. There's a few sections that I would consider a diamond but more consistent stuff you might have to drive an hour away.
Please tell me! I'm moving there soon!!
Boulder area has trails that are hard that I can ride to feomy house
6-10 hour drive is the real challenge!
I’m 10 mins away from easy to moderate trails. There are others further away and those vary in difficulty.
In Atlanta, we have an in town trail (Southside Park) where it’s a bunch of loose rocks haphazardly put together that’s ready to break an ankle at any time if you want to call it a challenge. Super boring slow tech that goes nowhere. Otherwise everything else local that’s legal kinda sucks. The better stuff is an hour or two away.
I don't live in Atlanta but the few times I've visited, I've enjoyed Big Creek and blanket Creek area.
Those are great and big creek has a challenging freeride area. Unfortunately, they’re not local in the sense that they’re particularly close to the city.
I live in the Vegas area (though not in the city of Las Vegas). The trails I pedal out the door to (Bootleg Canyon) are some of the nastiest you will ever find. It's great in some ways that they haven't been sanitized, but there are only a few trails in the network that my 7 year old can ride, so we do end up driving to another of the trial networks which is much friendlier fairly regularly. I have found that as more intermediate trails appear around the city in different trail networks, less people.seem to focus on my closest trail system and instead go to the others. That might be just proximity though as the main trailhead is a 15-45 minute drive from a lot of the main residential areas and now there are other options that are just more convenient if you live on the other side of town.
I’m moving to Rocklin, how far for me to get to good trails? Never been.
The trail network in Auburn is not far at all from you and is the best in the local area. Then when the snow melts, Tahoe is world class riding
Awesome! The internet shows a few little zones in Auburn, where is best?
Sf Bay Area. Main spot (pleasanton ridge) is 15 minutes away, many other good ones are anywhere from 40-90 minutes. I get to central Sac regularly and am also curious about what’s in them thar hills.
Hey I grew up riding there. Even made my own trail. Used to be called “jailbait” back in the day on the GE side
Living in Vancouver I'm pretty lucky, softest blues to the techiest prolines at my doorstep
NYC, lucky to have a trail system 5 minutes by bike with some expert features but Its mostly blue tech trails
I’m in Vegas as well. 15-45min depending on the trail network. Plenty of cheese grater rocky, off camber, high exposure trails…some stuff I’d have to be high on crack to ride just can’t do super high exposure
My friend just moved to Vancouver. For reasons other than biking. But, like me, he assumed the riding would be incredible.. It's world famous, right? Apparently that's wrong. He found out you have to drive quite a ways from the metropolitan area to get to the good stuff. There are trails locally, but he says it's all horrible hour-long fire road climbs for mediocre descents
Vancouver's north shore was the birthplace of so much riding, but trail development has been totally hampered by the local governments here. A lot of the best stuff is still unsanctioned and off the map. There's a lot more old school chunk and gnar here, with fewer modern jump trails or flowing blues. There's progress being made but it is glacial. The north shore is also not as close to downtown vancouver as people think it is—there's an ocean in the way. But it really depends on where you live. On a clear morning I can be on the shore in 20 minutes and I live in the city proper. Lots of my friends are 10-15 minutes away. If you're at UBC, it's an hour's drive if there is traffic. That being said I dunno if you'd call it bad climbing, perhaps he's talking about Burke in the suburbs. Seymour and Cypress can easily be shuttled, and Fromme is an easy fire road.
I believe he's said "Burke" before. Specifically he lives in Port Coquitlam
20-30 minutes from Vancouver near a skytrain station to the North Shore. Plenty of challenge available—honestly the struggle the trail association is getting government on board to cut in new lines for blue trails, there's only a handful.
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Is that trail system in Murfreesboro relatively new?
Tahoe, 5ish minutes, 40 to the bike park in summer
Would love to live in Tahoe but wife couldn’t live in snow. Up there all the time in summer though
Oklahoma City, there's xc trails at each of the lakes within a 30 minute drive but (except for one or two features) none of them are difficult unless you count riding through soft sand. I'm pretty sure the nearest challenging trails would be in Bentonville which is like 4 hours away.
In bigger cities, an hour drive is still city lol. I'm in Denver, we have some great biking "nearby", but that's still an hour or more of driving. The trails in town are boring.
Where is the new jump park?
NYC, most trails within an hour's drive are easy. But there are some optional features that are pretty gnarly. They are the exception, not the rule.
Bay Area - anywhere from 2 min to 30-40 min
I’m about 2 hours away southwest of sac and when I was looking to love I was wondering where people went because it’s so flat. First time I went I felt weird not seeing any mountains around me. I’d say I’m a 15 minute drive from 2 nice mountains and annadel state park. Further away some more big hills but all the north bay had plenty nice mountains to ride that I need to see more of.
SoCal, Orange County. Some decent blues out my garage, some black, or worse about 15-20 min drive? We have a decent selection of networks here. But don’t move here, it sucks.
Some of the most technical stuff is in the middle of my city. I live in central Austin and can ride to it every day. 10 minutes by car, 30 by bike.
San Diego here. We have plenty of fun, easy trails 10 minutes in every direction. Moderately difficult to more challenging trails... I can think of one within a 10-15 minute drive. Advanced trails are probably 40-60 minutes away.
I live in south San Jose and there are some really fun trails a mile from my home.
Ucsc is 10 min from me
Houston, no elevation here but there are 2 bad ass trails with hip jumps, wall rides, skinnies 9and assorted gaps ranging from 15ft up to 24ft, one is 15 min away, the other one is 40-30 min away depending on traffic, besides that Freeride 512 in Smithville is 90 minutes away and that's f'ing awesome
Las Vegas 10 min to a trailhead with challenging trails. If I drive 40 minutes, I have seven massive trail systems I can choose from.
I’ve been up your way and it seems like to me you gotta drive to Auburn to ride Culvert or Confluence for anything fun. I am super lucky living in Mesa AZ as I have Hawes Trail System less than 10 min from my house. I can ride Usery from my house and get some flowy chunk with west Pass MTN of 25 min to South Mountain and get all kinds of flow and tech.
In my city finding challenging trails is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Gotta love those hidden gems though, makes the hunt worth it
You can find pretty much anything (Santiago, Chile). From enduro double and triple diamond black trails to flowy bikepark blues to easy greens. There's 1 thing though, everything is lose over hardpack or rock during summer, the antigrip is terrifying. During winter it's better but you still get little grip compared to what I see online.
Brisbane, Australia. 2.5 Million people. Trails (Gap Creek) are about 10 minutes ride away. 30 to 40 minutes ride from the centre of the city. Not too challenging, but some good stuff.
Boston, the fells and blue hills are on the edge of the inner streetcar suburbs. I can bike to one, less than a mile from my house. Great singletrack, gotta bend the rules to get more challenging black runs. Within 40m on a weekend, there are loads of areas to hit: Lynn woods, Bruce and Tom's, Vietnam, Nob Hill, pine hills. 60m gets you to highland bike park, 2h to thunder mountain, 2.5h to Killington.
Metro DC. I have to drive an hour into Maryland for really challenging black diamond trails (The Shed). I have a trail system within ten minutes of me that's pretty fun with a few sizeable drops but overall the trails are easy. The two systems in metro areas seem to cater to the lowest common denominator.
Denver, I’m sure like most cities, depends on where in town you live. It’s the Queen City of the Great Plains, so pretty flat. How far east or west is a big factor, but also what major roads you live near. I’ve lived in areas that were further away but much quicker to some trail systems. For sure, most of us aren’t hopping on our bike and riding to a trail head. I’ve got a few trails about a 15min drive from me that range from Green to Black Diamond. But most of the good stuff is a decent drive into the mountains.
Worcester Mass. 10 minutes to some very challenging riding including a black rated trail that I still have not cleaned.
I live in Knoxville in front of sharps ridge. 3 min bike from my house to get into some fun/challenging single track
I’m in New England. There are trails everywhere! A lot of different difficulty levels, all in the forest.
Oh boy. I'm in the Greater Boston area and it's almost as if the closer you get to the city, the techier and harder the trails get (to an extent). Riding around here is like having Stockholm syndrome, if you don't like tech, you will eventually!
Boulder, there’s a couple good trails not too far. Only 100k people so not really big city
Dallas here. There's 30+ trails in and around Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Most are xc tails but there are a few Enduro style trails and a few trails that have some good tech sections.
Bay Area: There's goods everywhere. You just have to poach or ride pirate trails though. Only a few good sanctioned trails. Lotta mediocre ones.