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Crested Butte Map & Guidebook Combo

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Save money by buying everything you need for your Crested Butte trip at once! This combo includes some of the best and most popular items we carry:

• The second edition Crested Butte Guidebook
• The Aspen, Crested Butte, and Gunnsion overview map, and
• The new detail map of Crested Butte and Taylor Park

Fruita, Grand Junction Map/Guide Combo

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Save money by buying everything you need for your Fruita trip at once! This combo includes some of the best and most popular items:

• The new Fruita Fat Tire Guide, and
• The Fruita and Grand Junction Topographic map

Summit County Map & Guide Combo

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Save money by buying everything you need for your trip to Summit County and Vail! This combo includes some of the best and most popular items:

• The new Summit County and Vail Singletrack Guide, and
• The Summit County Topographic map from Latitude 40 degrees

Salida County Map & Guide Combo

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Save money by buying everything you need for your trip to Salida! This combo includes some of the best and most popular items:

• Nathan Ward's guide: Salida Singletrack, and
• The Monarch Crest Topographic map from Absolute Bikes (with six other trails)

Monarch Crest Trail Map

from Absolute Bikes

The Monarch Crest Trail is one of the finest mountain bike rides in the state with elevation gains up to 12,000 feet and extreme views of the Sawatch, Uncompahgre and San Juan Mountain Ranges. It is an extension of the Continental Divide Trail System and in some sections, overlaps the Colorado Trail. This waterproof, topographic map of the the Crest Trail complete with photo references, altitude gain and trail profiles is a must have for first time Crest Trail riders. GPS accuracy with photo of each of the Crest Trail turns. Six additional trails are shown and highlighted. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Cortez, Dolores, Mancos, Rico Trails Map

from Big Loop Maps

This beautiful topographic map and guide includes complete details for 34+ Rides totaling over 500 miles in the Cortez, Dolores, Mancos, & Rico area. It includes rides for all ability levels and features terrain from year around desert routes to high altitude mountain trails. Covering Cortez, Dolores, Mancos, Rico, Four Corners, San Juan National Forest, LaPlata Mountains, Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, Telluride, and the Canyon of the Ancients. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Fruita Fat Tire Guidebook

from Over the Edge Sports

From the back of the book:

All the classic Fruita and Grand Junction trails, listed in one handy guide book.
Includes easy to read maps, trail descriptions, accurate mileages, and much more cool Fruita information.
This is the one true local guidebook for Fruita, Grand Junction area in western Colorado.

This is a brand new update for 2007. This new book is not only easier to use, and much more attractive, but includes much more content. There aren't too many other guidebooks to the area, but this makes the others not even be choices. The guide includes trails in the Kokopelli and Bookcliffs areas, Douglas Pass, Rabbit Valley, Grand Junction, and the High Country

Summit County & Vail Singletrack Guide

from Holly's Ride Guides

This guide has professional looking, easy to read maps, trail descriptions with mile-marker break-downs, a list of bike shops in each of the areas covered, and a great intro chapter with background on the areas, safety info, riding tips, and more. Contains over 40 Singletrack Loop Descriptions in and around Breckenridge, Kenosha Pass, Keystone, Copper Mountain, Vail, and Vail Ski Resort. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Crested Butte, Gunnison, & Salida Guide

from Holly's Ride Guides

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Crested Butte, Gunnison, and Salida, Colorado offer some of the best mountain biking found anywhere, and this is the local's guide to the singletracks you want to ride! From smooth beginner rides to high altitude epic adventures, there is something here for every mountain biker. Experience narrow singletrack, excellent climbs, fast descents, granite slickrock, and technical riding. Enjoy awe-inspiring views and wildflowers up to your handlebars on uncrowded trails. This book includes all the classics from Mountain Bike Crested Butte Singletrack and Hartman Rocks in Gunnison, and 20 new rides! (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Salida Singletrack Guide

from Ice Mountain

I just rode Slickrock in Moab and the 401 in Crested Butte, but the Monarch Crest Trail is definitely the best of the three. The views were amazing, and I could barely breathe.
- Joe Handley, United Kingdom

The original and only guide to all the major riding areas in the Upper Arkansas River Valley with 38 of the best trails in the valley - beginner to expert, country roads to extreme singletrack. Each ride includes maps and elevation profiles, including altitude gain and loss. There is also advice on riding areas, riding seasons, the Rainbow Trail, the Colorado Trail and the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Aspen, Crested Butte, Gunnison Trail Map

from Latitude 40 degrees

This is the most popular map for this region. It includes highlighted public access trails and roads for hiking, mountain biking, 4WD, and equestrians. Including all or parts of eight wilderness areas and all the classic routes in this beautiful region. Hundreds of miles of trails never before mapped. Brief trail descriptions for 37 hikes and 40 mountain bike routes noting degree of difficulty, length, elevation loss and gain. This "big picture" map is great for planning where to go and how to get there. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Vail & Eagle Valley Trail Map

from Latitude 40 degrees

This full-color, waterproof map also has very detailed trail descriptions for 14 mountain bike routes noting degree of difficulty and length in miles with elevation / distance profiles showing loss and gain. Bonuses include general information on weather, reading maps, getting lost, and hypothermia, computer generated relief images, and inset maps showing hiking and mt. biking trails on Vail and Beaver Creek Mountains. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Colorado Front Range Trails Map

from Latitude 40 degrees

This is a beautiful, full-color, big picture map that is great for planning where to go and how to get there. It highlights public access hiking, mt. biking, OHV, equestrian trails and roads, and includes campgrounds, mountain parks and open space areas. There are brief trail descriptions for 50 hikes and 50 mountain bike routes noting degree of difficulty and length in miles. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Telluride, Silverton, & Ouray Topo Map

from Latitude 40 degrees

This beautiful, seven-color, double-sided map highlights public access trails and roads for hiking, mt. biking, OHV, and equestrians. It covers Lizzard Head, Mt. Sneffels and southwest Uncompaghre Wilderness areas and includes all major jeep routes over passes. This map connects with the Durango map for continuous coverage of the western San Juan Mountain range. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Colorado Southwest Recreation Topo Map

from Latitude 40 degrees

This full-color "big picture" map is great for planning where to go and how to get there. It highlights public access trails and roads for hiking, mt. biking, OHV, and equestrians. It includes all or parts of eight wilderness areas and all the classic routes in this beautiful region and has latitude and longitude map borders with UTM coordinates. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Fruita & Grand Junction Topo Map

from Latitude 40 degrees

This two-sided, full-color map includes the Colorado National Monument, Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area, Black Ridge Wilderness, Rabbit Valley Recreation Area, Grand Junction OHV areas. Five inset maps cover the most popular riding areas: 18 Road, Book Cliffs Recreation Area, Kokopelli loop trails area, Lunch Loop area trails, Bangs Canyon Special Recreation Management Area, and the Kokopelli Trail from Westwater Road to Dewey Bridge. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Durango Topographic Trail Map

from Latitude 40 degrees

This beautiful, full-color double-sided map includes the Colorado Trail from Durango to Molas Pass, full coverage of La Plata mountain range and Hermosa Creek, Trails around Rico, the Aspen loop for ATVs, and Latitude and longitude map borders with UTM coordinates, and includes a detailed inset map of Horse Gulch trail system southeast of Durango. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Boulder County Trail Map

from Latitude 40 degrees

This beautiful, full-color topographic map includes the Indian Peaks Wilderness, southern Rocky Mountain National Park, James Peak Wilderness, Boulder Mountain Parks and Open Space, Nederland area trails, Roosevelt National Forest. It has color-coded elevation tinting and hundreds of miles of GPS-surveyed travel routes with GPS mileage between junctions and latitude and longitude map borders with UTM coordinates. On the back side is a 3-D Computer-generated relief map. Includes 33 trails discriptions with elevation/distance profiles. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Summit County Trails Map

from Latitude 40 degrees

This beautiful seven-color, double-sided topographic shaded-relief map covers all of Summit County, Vail, and Leadville. It includes the Colorado Trail from Kenosha Pass to Twin Lakes, a chart of hiking and bicycling routes, hundreds of miles of GPS-surveyed travel routes, color-coded elevation tinting, GPS mileage between junctions, and latitude and longitude map borders with UTM coordinates. There is also an inset map of Breckenridge. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Crested Butte and Taylor Park Trails Map

from Latitude 40 degrees

This is a great close-up, detailed view of Crested Butte and Taylor Park area maps and works well with the big picture Aspen, Crested Butte, Gunnison Recreation Map. It has full color maps on both sides with latitude and longitude map borders and UTM coordinates and elevation, descriptions, and mile points for 32 trails and roads. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Front Range Rider Trail Guide

from Front Range Rider

A mountain biking guide to Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming. Descriptions and trail maps for 33 trails represent a variety of terrain, difficulty, and splendor of places to pedal your bike. The trails chosen for this book are Anne's favorites from an endless supply of trails scattered throughout Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming. Colorado means pine scents, gurgling streams, spectacular vistas, and quiet meadows - add screaming downhill with contracting thighs and rattling arms, and you're mountain biking. In addition to the five rides listed, hundreds of areas await your knobbies.

Hut to Hut Telluride to Moab

from Falcon Guides

Over the course of seven heart-pumping days, you'll travel 201 miles, taking in such sights as the 14,000-foot, snowcapped peaks of the San Juans, the 100-mile-long Uncompahgre Plateau, the awe-inspiring canyons of the Dolores River Valley, and the rugged La Sal Mountains rising high above the red desert of Moab, Utah. This handy pocket-size guide provides cyclists with all the information necessary to take a self-guided tour or a fully supported hut-to-hut vacation along this famous trail system, including detailed route descriptions, accurate route maps, elevation profiles, and plenty of extra information about type of terrain, technical difficulty, and area history for each leg of the trip.

Colorado Trail Official Guidebook

from Colorado Mountain Press

The Colorado Trail is the premier scenic long trail in North America. It winds its way through fields of wildflowers to high mountain passes, from wild mountain streams to queit trails through old growth forests. The CT crosses eight mountain ranges, seven National Forests, six Wilderness Areas, and five river systems. The official guidebook includes everything you need to enjoy the trail, whether out for a day, a weekend backpack, or the complete through-hike of a trail that starts near Denver and ends near Durango, 468 miles later.

Winter Park/Fraser Mountain Bike Map

from Backcountry Bound

This waterproof/tearproof map features trail profiles with level of difficulty, trail length, elevation gain, and trail type, along with points of interest and detailed narratives for suggested routes and detailed directions to trailheads and parking. The Winter Park Resort bike trails are included. All trails were tracked using a Garmin GPS and mapped onto National Geographic TOPO! Colorado Software.

Tellurides

from Wayfinder Press

Ride descriptions include distance, time, elevation gain, ratings of physical and technical difficulty and terrain type. Detailed route descriptions are combined with a distance/elevation graph and a Trails Illustrated topographic map of each ride, giving clear, concise directions. Historical background is woven into the book as a tour guide to the many sites the routes pass. Novice and hardcore riders alike will find this book an invaluable resource for exploring Colorado's most beautiful and unforgiving mountain chain.

Breckenridge Mountain Biking and Hiking

from Little Rose

A Wilderness Trails Guide. This is a two-sided map. One side is a USGS topographic map in grey with color coded hiking and mountain biking trails indicated, with recommended directions and distances. This makes it not as fancy as many of the other maps, but extremely easy to read and find the trails. The other side shows each of the 20 indicated trails with detailed descriptions, including differences between hike and mountain bike variations, elevation profiles, and a chart showing distance, time, difficulty, and more. This map was published in 1994 and there is not an updated version. The Latitude 40 Summit County map is more up-to-date, but is at a larger scale and doesn't show as much detail.

Bicycling the Uncompahgre Plateau

from Wayfinder Press

Hundreds of miles of jeep roads, good access, unique terrain and beautiful scenery make the Uncompahgre Plateau of Western Colorado an ideal all-terrain bicycle locale. The plateau is strategically located between the biking "hot spots" of the Colorado Rockies and the canyon country of Utah. Bicycling the Uncompahgre Plateau details backcountry access road information, recounts the Uncompahgre's history and unequaled environment, and describes twenty bikeable trails on the plateau. This book will be useful to mountain bikers who live in western Colorado, and will serve the many intrepid, intermountain travelers who venture off the beaten track.

Mt. Biking Colorado Springs

from Falcon Guides

Mountain bikers, beginner to expert, all share a common need - a place to ride. Mountain Biking Colorado Springs gives fat-tire enthusiasts the skinny on where to ride. Here are fifty of the best rides in and around Colorado Springs, ranging from easy singletracks like Rampart Reservoir to strenuous up- and downhill workouts like Tanner-Stultz Loop. Detailed ride descriptions make it easy to find the trailheads and follow the routes - helping you stay on track with accurate distances keyed to easy-to-read maps and elevation profiles, and ratings for physical and technical difficulty.

Cycling the Great Divide

from The Mountaineers

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What could be more adventurous than bicycling the Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico, the longest mountain bike route in America, following little-used roads where you encounter more deer and elk than people? Here's the very first guide to the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route - by an expert who helped to create it. Michael McCoy breaks the ride into 62 days, in four suggested trips of two to three weeks.

Front Range Single Tracks

from Fat Tire Press

Sorry, no bikepaths or roads. Just pure single track fun! This compact guide is the source of single-track trails along the Front Range. Geared for all abilities, from easy beginner rides to trails that will physically and technically challenge the advanced rider. Select between flat trails or trails that reach for the sky. Pick a smooth trail or a gonzo ride. This guide book offers trails of all types and many of them. Each detailed ride descr;iptipn is combined with a map and elevation profile giving all the necessary information to make a satisfying single track excursion. Ride options from the main trail are included to add to your riding pleasure.

Steamboat Single Tracks

from Fat Tire Press

Steamboat Single Tracks, the Mountain Biking Guide to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, presents compact information as the source for mountain bike rides throughout the Yampa River Valley and the Elk River Valley. Geared toward all abilities, from leisure first time beginner rides to trails that will physically and technically test the advanced rider. Each detailed ride description is combined with a topographical map and an elevation profile. giving all necessary information to make a gratifying mountain biking excursion. Ride options and trip tips are added to make your ride even more pleasurable.

Silverthorne, CO to Platoro, CO Bike Route

from Adventure Cycling Association

The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, paralleling the U.S. Continental Divide for 2,490 miles from the Canada to the Mexico Border, is the longest off-pavement cycling route in the world. This publication depicts 315.2 miles of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. Map A shows the route from Silverthorne to Salida, Colorado. Map B shows the route from Salida to Platoro, Colorado. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

South Pass City, WY to Silverthorne, CO Bike

from Adventure Cycling Association

The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, paralleling the U.S. Continental Divide for 2,490 miles from the Canada to the Mexico Border, is the longest off-pavement cycling route in the world. This publication depicts 401 miles of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. Map A shows the route from South Pass City to Middlewood Hill, Wyoming. Map B shows the route from Middlewood Hill, Wyoming to Silverthorne, Colorado.

Aspen Snowmass

from Who Press

This shaded-relief map with contours covers Aspen, Snowmass Village, Independence Pass, and the Maroon Bells area. Bike trails, hiking trails, trailheads, and mountain peaks are all highlighted. The flip side contains a town map of Aspen showing bike routes and trails, and descriptions of the 27 bike routes indicated on both sides. The town map is especially useful as a guide to the town of Aspen, and the overall map makes a good guide to the roads, hikes, and biking routes in the surrounding area. (click here for complete description and more pics!)

Platoro, CO to Pie Town NM Bike Route

from Adventure Cycling Association

The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, paralleling the U.S. Continental Divide for 2,490 miles from the Canada to the Mexico Border, is the longest off-pavement cycling route in the world. This publication depicts 431 miles of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. Map A shows the route from Platoro, Colorado, to Cuba, New Mexico. Map B shows the route from Cuba to Pie Town, New Mexico.

The maps include profiles, riding tips, geographical data, backcountry travel advice, general information, and a service directory. The directory locates groceries, restaurants, lodging, camping, and bike shops, both on and off the route.