Tag: Mountain Bike Trails
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Colorado’s first state park gets its first mountain bike trails
Colorado’s first state park has its first mountain bike-optimized trails. A flowy, buffed-out network roaming about 4 ½ miles is making its summer debut at Lathrop State Park, near Walsenburg. Also open to hikers, the trails more than double the dirt options at the park, which is overlooked by the Spanish Peaks and defined by…
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‘World-class’ trail system breaks ground in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains
Early into Silverton Singletrack Society’s life nine years ago, some of the nonprofit founders gazed upon a mountain looming over their backyard party. That was Boulder Mountain, among the alpine backdrop of the remote town above 9,300 feet in southwest Colorado. Those mountain biking enthusiasts in the backyard envied a mountain facing south to the…
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Creator of Colorado’s new, high-alpine mountain bike trail was raised on ‘The Legend’
ARAPAHOE BASIN • Near the end of a steep, rocky drive to the top of the mountain, Metallica hums through the truck radio. “We need this song cranked,” Joey Klein said. “Now we’re ready!” Ready to take on his latest, greatest downhill mountain bike trail in a long career of creating some of Earth’s finest.…
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Gifts from Colorado’s outdoors: 11 new trails, open spaces and happenings celebrated in 2022
Christmas gifts only come once a year. But gifts across Colorado’s great outdoors come year-round. Here, we reflect on developments around the Front Range and beyond that brought joy to enthusiasts — and will bring joy for many years to come. Anemone Trail Not long into 2022, after more than two years of stone-intensive construction,…